{"paper":{"title":"Intra-Night Optical Variability Monitoring of Fermi Blazars: First Results from 1.3 m J C Bhattacharya Telescope","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"A. Kaur, C. S. Stalin, M. Ajello, Vaidehi S. Paliya","submitted_at":"2018-12-27T03:56:59Z","abstract_excerpt":"We report the first results obtained from our campaign to characterize the intranight-optical variability (INOV) properties of {\\it Fermi}~detected blazars, using the observations from the recently commissioned 1.3 m J C Bhattacharya telescope (JCBT). During the first run, we were able to observe 17 blazars in the Bessel $R$ filter for $\\sim$137 hrs. Using $C$ and scaled $F$-statistics, we quantify the extent of INOV and derive the duty cycle (DC) which is the fraction of time during which a source exhibits a substantial flux variability. We find a high DC of 40\\% for BL Lac objects and the fl"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1812.10614","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}