A study of the middle time-scale periodic behavior of light curve of BL Lac object OJ287

Ding Nan; Zhang Hao-Jing; Zhang Xiong; Ou Jian-Wen; Luo Dan

doi:10.7498/aps.64.139801

Abstract

In this paper, we collect the 37 years' data observed for BL Lac object OJ287 in the optical band, and construct its light curve from 1972 to 2009. Using the method of Lomb-Scargle Fourier transform, we analyze the middle time-scale periodic behavior and discover the primary periodic compositions of 52.0±1.1 day and 255±23 day. Then, we simulate the quasi-periodic signal of period doubling bifurcations and compare it with the observation data at different time-interval in their phase diagram and correlation dimension. Result indicates that OJ287 has multi-period scale features. At different time-intervals, there are different harmonic period components in the quasi-periodic light curve. Variation of harmonic period component is related with the disturbance of accretion flow which is from the secondary black hole to the primary black hole, and the periodicity variability may bifurcate the harmonic period component when the primary accretion flow is influenced by a strong disturbance.

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School of Physics and Electronic Information Technology, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, China
Funds: Project supported by the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U1231203), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.11163007), the Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province, China (Grant No.2012FB140), the Key Program of Science Foundation of Education Department of Yunnan Province, and the Key Program of Key Laboratory of the High Energy Astrophysics of University of Yunnan Province of China.

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