MULTI-BAND INTRA-NIGHT VARIABILITY OF THE BLAZAR CTA 102 DURING ITS 2016 DECEMBER OUTBURST
Boyko Mihov and Lyuba Slavcheva-Mihova
Publication
Publication of Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, Vol. 105, 2024, Page 44, https://doi.org/10.69646/14sbac40a
BOOK OF ABSTRACTS: XIV Serbian-Bulgarian Astronomical Conference, 23 - 27 September, 2024, Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia. Editors: Milan S. Dimitrijević, Evgeni Semkov, Zoran Simić, Goran Damljanović, Momchil Dechev
Published: 01 November 2024
Abstract
During December 2016 the blazar CTA 102 underwent an unprecedented outburst thus becoming the brightest blazar observed up to now.In this paper we present the results from the BVRI intra-night monitoring of the blazar in three consecutive nights during the outburst. We perform analysis of the light curves using colour- magnitude, cross-correlation, and decomposition techniques and estimate the size and some physical parameters of the emitting regions in the framework of the turbulent jet model.