Published March 26, 2012 | Version public
Journal Article

The OVRO blazar monitoring program

Abstract

The OVRO 40 m Telescope monitoring program carries out twice-weekly measurements of the 15 GHz flux density of nearly 1600 blazars and other AGN, including all those associated with northern (declination > −20°) Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) detections and a preselected sample ideal for statistical studies. We present some results from the program and describe the statistical method we have developed to assess the intrinsic radio variability of the sources in our sample. We also present a method for assessing the significance of correlations between radio and gamma-ray light curves.

Additional Information

© 2012 IOP Publishing. We acknowledge support from NASA grants NNX08AW31G and NNG06GG1G and NSF grant AST-0808050. OGK acknowledges the support of a Keck Institute for Space Studies Fellowship. WM acknowledges support from the US Department of State and CONICYT in Chile for a Fulbright-CONICYT scholarship. VP acknowledges support for this work provided by NASA through Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship grant number PF8-90060.

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Eprint ID
32279
DOI
10.1088/1742-6596/355/1/012007
Resolver ID
CaltechAUTHORS:20120706-095540476

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Funding

NASA
NNX08AW31G
NASA
NNG06GG1G
NSF
AST-0808050
Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS)
Department of State
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT)
NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship
PF8-90060

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2012-07-06
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