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J/A+AS/127/445    Gamma-ray loud blazars optical monitoring. II. (Raiteri+ 1998)
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Optical photometric monitoring of gamma-ray loud blazars.
II. Observations from November 1995 to June 1996
       Raiteri C.M., Ghisellini G., Villata M., De Francesco G., Lanteri L.,
       Chiaberge M., Peila A., Antico G.
      <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 127, 445 (1998)>
      =1998A&AS..127..445R      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: BL Lac objects ; QSOs ; Photometry
Keywords: galaxies: active - BL Lacertae objects: general - quasars: general

Description:
    New data from the optical monitoring of gamma-ray loud blazars at the
    Torino Astronomical Observatory are presented.

File Summary:
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  FileName        Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
tab2-21            40     1141   RVB photometry
table              43       50   Observations dates for tab2-21 data
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See also:
  J/A+AS/121/119 : Gamma-ray loud blazars optical monitoring. I. (Villata+ 1997)
  J/ApJ/522/846  : Optical monitoring of GeV loud blazars    (Xie+, 1999)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  8  A8    ---     Name      Blazar designation
      10  A1    ---     Band      [VBR] Band
  12- 19  A8 "DD/MM/YY" Obs1      Date of the beginning of observations
  21- 28  A8 "DD/MM/YY" Obs2      Date of the end of observations
  30- 34  F5.2  mag     magMin    Minimum magnitude in Band
  36- 40  F5.2  mag     magMax    Maximum magnitude in Band
  42- 43  I2    ---     Nframes   Number of frames
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: tab2-21
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  8  A8    ---     Name      QSO name
      10  A1    ---     Band      [BVR] Band
  12- 16  A5    ---     magl      Label of mag column (1)
  18- 29  F12.4 d       HJD       Heliocentric Julian date
  31- 35  F5.2  mag     mag       Magnitude or differential magnitude
  37- 40  F4.2  mag   e_mag       rms uncertainty on mag
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Note (1): B-B_A: B magnitude of the source minus the B magnitude of star A
          B-B_B: B magnitude of the source minus the B magnitude of star B
          R-R_A: R magnitude of the source minus the R magnitude of star A
          R-R_B: R magnitude of the source minus the R magnitude of star B
          R-R_D: R magnitude of the source minus the R magnitude of star D
          V-V_A: V magnitude of the source minus the V magnitude of star A
          V-V_B: V magnitude of the source minus the V magnitude of star B
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Acknowledgements: Claudia M. Raiteri <raiteri@otoax3.to.astro.it>
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(End)                                         Patricia Bauer [CDS]   26-Jun-1997