The Hamburg Quasar Monitoring Program (HQM) at Calar Alto⋆: III. Lightcurves of optically violent variable sources
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Abstract. HQM is an optical broad-band photometric monitoring program carried out since September 1988. We use a CCD camera at the MPIA 1.2m telescope. Fully automatic photometric reduction relative to stars in the frames is done within a few minutes after each exposure, thus interesting brightness changes can be followed in detail. The typical photometric error is 1–2% for a 17.5mag quasar. We here present lightcurves of 14 known violently variable sources and compare them with literature data. For two BLLac objects, 1E 1229+645 and 4C 56.27 (1823+568), this paper is the first variability study. We have also carried out POSS photometry to obtain indications for variability on a longer timescale.
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تاریخ انتشار 1994