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Two Years of Monitoring of Blazars with the OVRO 40 m Telescope at 15 GHz in Support of Fermi-GST

Authors :
Max-Moerbeck, Walter
Pavlidou, Vasiliki
Pearson, Timothy J.
Readhead, Anthony C. S.
Richards, Joseph
Stevenson, Matthew
Healey, Stephen E.
Romani, Roger W.
Shaw, Michael S.
Zensus, J. A.
Fuhrmann, Lars
Angelakis, Emmanouil
Grainge, Keith
Taylor, Gregory B.
Maraschi, Laura
Ghisellini, Gabriele
Della Ceca, Roberto
Tavecchio, Fabrizio
Publication Year :
2010
Publisher :
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2010.

Abstract

We have continued our monitoring program of ~1200 sources with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory 40 m Telescope. Most of the sources are part of the Candidate Gamma-Ray Blazar Survey (CGRaBS). We have also been observing Targets Of Opportunity triggered by gamma-ray detections and participating in multiwalength campaigns lead by Fermi-GST. Regular program sources are observed twice a week and have been observed for ~24 months at 15 GHz. We use these light curves to study the radio variability and its relation with optical properties. A significant fraction of the bright AGNs detected by Fermi-GST are in our program, which will allow for correlations between the radio and gamma-ray behavior for a number of sources. Here we present some example light curves, describe the tools used to study the variability and present some preliminary variability statistics for the sample.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
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