TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS BETWEEN OPTICAL AND GAMMA-RAY ACTIVITY IN BLAZARS

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 797; no. 2; pp. 137 - 11
• Main Authors: Cohen, Daniel P., Romani, Roger W., Filippenko, Alexei V., Cenko, S. Bradley, Lott, Benoit, Zheng, WeiKang, Li, Weidong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Astronomical Society 08.12.2014; Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Subjects: active galactic nuclei: blazars; Astrophysics; Automation; Blazars; Correlation; Emission; galaxies: jets; Gamma rays; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; Physics; quasars: general; Searching; Telescopes; Temporal logic; galaxies jets; quasars general; active galactic nuclei blazars

We have been using the 0.76 m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) at Lick Observatory to optically monitor a sample of 157 blazars that are bright in gamma-rays being detected with high significance (10[sigma]) in one year by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telesco...