MULTI-BAND INTRA-NIGHT VARIABILITY OF THE BLAZAR CTA 102 DURING ITS 2016 DECEMBER OUTBURST
Publication
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGRADE 107, Page 117-122, https://doi.org/10.69646/14sbac20p
PPROCEEDINGS OF THE XIV SERBIAN-BULGARIAN ASTRONOMICAL CONFERENCE, Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia, September 23-27, 2024, Eds. Milan S. Dimitrijević, Evgeni Semkov, Zoran Simić, Goran Damljanović, Momchil Dechev
Published by: Astronomical Observatory, Volgina 7, 11060 Belgrade 38, Serbia
Published: 17. 02. 2025.
Abstract
During 2016 December the blazar CTA 102 underwent an unprecedented outburst thus becoming the brightest blazar observed up to date. We present some results from the intra-night monitoring of the blazar in the BV RI bands in three consecutive nights during the outburst.