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Infrared Variation of Blazars

Astrophysics 2016-08-30 v1

Abstract

In this paper, the historical infrared (JHK) data compiled from the published literature are presented here for 30 blazars. Maximum near-IR variations are found and compared with the optical ones. For the color-magnitude relation, some objects show that the color index increases with magnitude while 1253-055 shows complex behaviour, which perhaps suggests that the emission mechanism consists of, at least, two parts. The spectral indexes are in the range of αIR\alpha_{IR} = 0.77 to 2.37.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9910269,
  title  = {Infrared Variation of Blazars},
  author = {J. H. Fan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9910269},
  year   = {2016}
}

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41 pages, 4 tables, 15 figures

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