Historic Light Curve and Long-term Optical Variation of BL Lacertae 2200+420

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1998-09-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9809050v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages, 6 figures, 2 table, aasms4.sty, to be published in ApJ, Vol. 507, 1998

Scientific paper

10.1086/306301

In this paper, historical optical(UBVRI) data and newly observed data from the Yunnan Observatory of China(about100 years) are presented for BL Lacertae. Maximum variations in UBVRI: 5.12, 5.31, 4.73, 2.59, and 2.54 and color indices of U-B = -0.11 +/- 0.20, B-V= 1.0 +/- 0.11, V-R= 0.73 +/- 0.19, V-I= 1.42 +/- 0.25, R-I= 0.82 +/- 0.11, and B-I= 2.44 +/- 0.29 have been obtained from the literature; The Jurkevich method is used to investigate the existence of periods in the B band light curve, and a long-term period of 14 years is found. The 0.6 and 0.88 year periods reported by Webb et al.(1988) are confirmed. In addition, a close relation between B-I and B is found, suggesting that the spectra flattens when the source brightens.

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