使用活动星系核射电喷流的VLBA监测实验(Monitoring Of Jets in Active galactic nuclei with VLBA Experiments,MOJAVE)的15.3 GHz超长基线阵列(Very Long Baseline Array,VLBA)观测数据,利用功率谱密度函数方法对59个耀变体的光变曲线进行了周期分析,结果表明这59个耀变体的光变曲线显示了从2.6年到11.1年的可能的光变周期。分析了59个光变周期与其红移的关系,结果表明二者没有相关性,进一步搜集了14.5 GHz波段上的110个活动星系核的周期并分析了它们的周期与红移的关系,结果表明二者没有相关性。
Using the Urumqi 25 m radio telescope, sources from the first three months of the Fermi-large area telescope detected active galactic nuclei （AGN） catalog with a declination of 〉 0° were observed in 2009 at 4.8 GHz. The radio flux density ap- peared to correlate with the γ-ray intensity. Intra-day variability （IDV） observations were performed in March, April and May 2009 for 42 selected γ-ray bright blazars, and ~60% of them showed evidence of flux variability at 4.8 GHz during the IDV observations. The IDV detection rate was higher than that in previous flat-spectrum AGN samples. IDV appeared more often in the very long baseline interferometry-core dominant blazars, and the non-IDV blazars showed relatively ＂steeper＂ spectral in- dices than the IDV blazars. Pronounced inter-month variability was also found in two BL Lac objects： J0112＋2244 and J0238＋1636.
Nicola MarchiliThomas P.KrichbaumLars FuhrmannAnton Zensus
