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Intra-day variability of BL Lacertae from 2016 to 2018

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2021-12-08 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We monitored BL Lacertae in the B, V, R and I bands for 14 nights during the period of 2016-2018. The source showed significant intraday variability on 12 nights. We performed colour-magnitude analysis and found that the source exhibited bluer-when-brighter chromatism. This bluer-when-brighter behavior is at least partly caused by the larger variation amplitude at shorter wavelength. The variations at different wavelengths are well correlated and show no inter-band time lag.

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@article{arxiv.2108.04699,
  title  = {Intra-day variability of BL Lacertae from 2016 to 2018},
  author = {Tian Li and Jianghua Wu and Nankun Meng and Yan Dai and Xiaoyuan Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.04699},
  year   = {2021}
}