Violent Intranight Optical Variability of a Radio-Loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy: SDSS J094857.3+002225

Details Violent Intranight Optical Variability of a Radio-Loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy: SDSS J094857.3+002225 Violent Intranight Optical Variability of a Radio-Loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy: SDSS J094857.3+002225

2010-05-06

arxiv.org/abs/1005.0916v1

ApJ 715(2010) L113-L116

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

8 pages, 1 figures. It has been accepted by ApJL.

Scientific paper

10.1088/2041-8205/715/2/L113

SDSS J094857.3+002225 is a very radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxy. Here, we report our discovery of the intranight optical variability (INOV) of this galaxy through the optical monitoring in the B and R bands that covered seven nights in 2009. Violent rapid variability in the optical bands was identified in this RL-NLS1 for the first time, and the amplitudes of the INOV reaches 0.5 mag in both the B and R bands on the timescale of several hours. The detection of the INOV provides a piece of strong evidence supporting the fact that the object carries a relativistic jet with a small viewing angle, which confirms the conclusion drawn from the previous multi-wavelength studies.

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