The Nature of Microvariability in Blazar 0716+71

Details The Nature of Microvariability in Blazar 0716+71 The Nature of Microvariability in Blazar 0716+71

Jan 2010

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #434.11; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.376

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We analyze twenty-one microvariability observations of Blazar 0716+71 in order to determine the nature of the microvariations. We use the relationship between the excess rms and time to test whether the data represents a stationary time series and we examine the distribution of fluxes to determine whether the microvariations present in the light curves are consistent with noise processes. We found that although there are characteristics of correlated noise processes with a power density fluctuation spectrum of 1/f in the data, we show that we do not have an adequate number of observations to verify that all of the variations we see can be attributed to a particular stochastic noise process and therefore rule out any deterministic signals in the data.This project was funded by a partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF AST-0552798), Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU),and the Department of Defense (DoD) ASSURE (Awards to Stimulate and Support Undergraduate Research Experiences) programs.

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