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Quasi-periodicities of PKS 2155-304

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2016-01-13 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We have searched for periodicities in our VRIJHK photometry of PKS 2155-304, which covers the years 2005-2012. A peak of the Fourier spectrum with high significance is found at T\sim315 days, confirming the recent findings by \cite{Zhang2014}. The examination of the gamma-ray light curves from the\textit{ Fermi} archives yields a significant signal at \sim 2T, which, while nominally significant, involves data spanning only \sim 6T. Assuming a black hole mass of 109 M10^{9}\ M_{\odot} the Keplerian distance corresponding to the quasi-period T is 1016\sim10^{16} cm, about 50 Schwarzschild radii.

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@article{arxiv.1408.0015,
  title  = {Quasi-periodicities of PKS 2155-304},
  author = {Angela Sandrinelli and Stefano Covino and Aldo Treves},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.0015},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages, 1 figure