Monday, May 27, 2013

1305.5612 (B. -R. Liu et al.)

Two-year monitoring of intra-day variability of quasar 1156+295 at 4.8 GHz    [PDF]

B. -R. Liu, X. Liu, N. Marchili, J. Liu, L. -G. Mi, T. P. Krichbaum, L. Fuhrmann, J. A. Zensus
The quasar 1156+295 (4C +29.45) is one of the targets in the Urumqi monitoring program which aimed to search for evidence of annual modulation in the timescales of Intra-Day Variable (IDV) sources. The IDV observations of 1156+295 were carried out nearly monthly from October 2007 to October 2009, with the Urumqi 25m radio telescope at 4.8 GHz. The source has shown prominent IDV of total flux density in most observing sessions with variability timescales of $\leq$\,1 day at 4.8 GHz. The estimated IDV timescales seem to follow an annual cycle, which can be fitted with an anisotropic interstellar scintillation (ISS) model, suggesting that a significant part of the flux density variations is due to ISS. The source underwent a dramatic flare in 2008. We studied the possible consequences of the flare on the IDV of 1156+295, by comparing the changes in its variability characteristics with the evolution of the 43 GHz VLBA core size of the source.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.5612

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