Historic Light Curve and Long-Term Optical Variation of BL Lacertae 2200+420
Historic Light Curve and Long-Term Optical Variation of BL Lacertae 2200+420
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DOI：
10.1086/306301
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1998-09
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Jun-Hui Fan;Guang-zhong Xie;E. Pecontal;A. Pécontal;Y. Copin
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Jun-Hui Fan;Guang-zhong Xie;E. Pecontal;A. Pécontal;Y. Copin
In this paper, historical optical (UBVRI) data and newly observed data from the Yunnan Observatory of China (over ~100 yr) are presented for BL Lacertae. Large variations of ΔU = 5.12 mag, ΔB = 5.31 mag, ΔV = 4.73 mag, ΔR = 2.59 mag, and ΔI = 2.54 mag, and color indices of U-B = -0.11 ± 0.20, B-V = 1.0 ± 0.11, V-R = 0.73 ± 0.19, V-I = 1.42 ± 0.25, R-I = 0.82 ± 0.11, and B-I = 2.44 ± 0.29 have been obtained from the literature. The Jurkevich method is used to investigate the existence of periods in the B-band light curve, and a long-term period of 14 yr is found. The 0.6 and 0.88 yr periods reported by Webb et al. are confirmed. In addition, a close relation between B-I and B is found, suggesting that the spectrum flattens when the source brightens.
