A Variability Study of Long-term Optical Data of OJ 287

Y. Liu, J. H. Fan, H. G. Wang, G. G. Deng
2012 Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union  
In this paper, we investigated the possible exponential decays in the long term optical light curve of the BL Lac {OJ 287}. We developed a method that can be used to decomposing a light curve into a linear combination of exponential decays. The decomposing shows that the decay time scales range from ~ 103.6 to ~ 10−4 days. The power spectra has frequency-dependent power-law with slop ~ 0.5, and the peak of power is at the time scale of decay on ~ 160 days.
doi:10.1017/s1743921312019953 fatcat:t2pubyqcy5bzvk5uhddrjbc5wm