1. A Search for QPOs in the Blazar OJ287: Preliminary Results from the 2015/2016 Observing Campaign
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T. M. Reynolds, J. H. Telting, Andrzej S. Baran, Daniel E. Reichart, Navpreet Kaur, Eda Sonbas, Stefano Ciprini, J. Lozano de Haro, T. Schweyer, Takeshi Sakanoi, WeiKang Zheng, Gary Poyner, Kiran S. Baliyan, Daniel B. Caton, Katsura Matsumoto, A. Escartin Pérez, A. W. Neely, J. Dalessio, Kozo Sadakane, Waldemar Ogloza, T. Pursimo, Jussi Harmanen, F. Garcia, V. H. Chavushyan, Byeong-Cheol Lee, Markus Mugrauer, B. Debski, S. Okano, Pauli Pihajoki, Kari Nilsson, Andrei Berdyugin, Andreas Kvammen, R. Naves Nogues, K. M. Ivarsen, H. Er, F. Alicavus, L. Tremosa Espasa, J. P. Moore, J. B. Haislip, Masato Kagitani, Elina Lindfors, L. O. Takalo, G. Hurst, R. Reinthal, V. Fallah Ramazani, Toma Tomov, Marek Drozdz, Kosmas Gazeas, Mauri Valtonen, Michal Siwak, John T. Stocke, J.-L. Salto González, William C. Keel, F. Campos, Arti Joshi, Pere Blay, J. Carrillo Gómez, J. R. Valdes, J. Valero Pérez, Iain A. Steele, Maheswar Gopinathan, M. Zejmo, Alexei V. Filippenko, M. R. Kidger, Gopal Bhatta, Dinko Dimitrov, Jan Strobl, Arti Goyal, Helen Jermak, Mizuki Yoneda, E. Gafton, F. Verrecchia, Stanisław Zoła, Judith L. Provencal, R. H. Nelson, M. Campas Torrent, J. Saario, Aaron P. LaCluyze, Vilppu Piirola, J. Krzesinski, James R. Webb, Ahmet Erdem, David Boyd, N. Karaman, F. Gómez Pinilla, Jeewan C. Pandey, A. Raj, Martin Jelínek, Achamveedu Gopakumar, René Hudec, F. C. Soldán Alfaro, S. Sadegi, M. Perri, R. Karjalainen, Sameer, and Department of Physics
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Physics ,Supermassive black hole ,ta115 ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Accretion (meteorology) ,lcsh:Astronomy ,galaxies: active ,supermassive black holes ,Astronomy ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,Light curve ,115 Astronomy, Space science ,01 natural sciences ,BL Lacertae objects: individual (OJ287) ,Black hole ,lcsh:QB1-991 ,Innermost stable circular orbit ,Spiral wave ,0103 physical sciences ,Periodogram ,Blazar ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
We analyse the light curve in the R band of the blazar OJ287, gathered during the 2015/2016 observing season. We did a search for quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) using several methods over a wide range of timescales. No statistically significant periods were found in the high-frequency domain both in the ground-based data and in Kepler observations. In the longer-period domain, the Lomb–Scargle periodogram revealed several peaks above the 99% significance level. The longest one—about 95 days—corresponds to the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) period of the more massive black hole. The 43-day period could be an alias, or it can be attributed to accretion in the form of a two-armed spiral wave.
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- 2016