The ATCA Intraday Variability Survey of Extragalactic Radio Sources

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2001-03-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0103506v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.325:1411,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted for publication in the MNRAS (20 Mar 2001)

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04516.x

We present the results of an Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) survey for intra-day variability (IDV) of the total and polarized flux densities of 118 compact, flat spectrum, extragalactic radio sources from the Parkes 2.7 GHz Survey. A total of 22 total flux density IDV sources were discovered and 15 sources were found to show IDV of their polarized flux density. We discuss the statistical properties of the IDV sources, including the distribution of source modulation indices, and the dependence of the variability amplitude on source spectral index and on Galactic position. We suggest interstellar scintillation (ISS) in the Galactic interstellar medium as the most likely mechanism for IDV. Even so, the inferred high brightness temperatures cannot be easily explained.

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