12yrs of R-band photometry of the quasar 3C 454.3 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Fan J.H.
  2. Kurtanidze S.O.
  3. Liu Y.
  4. Kurtanidze O.M.
  5. Nikolashvili M.G.,Liu X.
  6. Zhang L.X.
  7. Cai J.T.
  8. Zhu J.T.
  9. He S.L.
  10. Yang W.X.
  11. Yang J.H.,Gu M.F.
  12. Luo G.Y.
  13. Yuan Y.H.
  14. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

In this work, we present 8523 pairs of R-band optical photometry observations for the quasar 3C 454.3 made during the period of 2006 October - 2018 February on the 70cm meniscus telescope at Abastumani Observatory, Georgia, to study its intraday variabilities (IDVs) and long-term variations, and we have come to the following results. (1) We detected 10 outbursts, a {Delta}R=3.825mag variation, and some IDVs. The IDV timescales are from 4.1 to 285 minutes, with the corresponding variability amplitude being A=2.9%-43.67%. The amplitude increases with IDV timescale. (2) The largest variation over a 1 day timescale is {Delta}R=1.38mag. (3) The IDV timescales suggest that the emission sizes are from 8.9x10^13^cm to 6.20x10^15^cm, and the magnetic field strengths are B=0.18-0.79G. (4) Period analysis results show three possible long-term periods, p=3.04+/-0.02yr, p=1.66+/-0.06yr, and p=1.20+/-0.03yr in the optical light curve. We adopted the accretion disk models and the lighthouse models to period p=3.04+/-0.02yr: in the accretion disk models, the binary black holes have masses M=1.17x10^9^M_{sun}_; in the lighthouse models, we used two boosted jet flux densities to fit the observational light curve. (5) WWZ analysis gives some short-period (high-frequency) signals associated with strong bursts (JD2454302 and JD2454521) with variable frequencies and lasting for the entire observation time span (11.3yr).

Keywords
  1. quasars
  2. infrared-photometry
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. photometry
  5. ccd-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2021ApJS..253...10F
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2021-05-28T14:42:19Z
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2021-05-28T14:42:19Z
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