OJ 087
OJ 287 is a blazar thought as a candidate to host a binary
supermassive black hole (Valtonen et al. 2006) and, with a
periodicity of 12-year in its optical wavelenght (Shi et al.
2007).
OJ 287 is a BL Lacertae type quasar situated at a redshift
of z = 0.306 with RA: 08 h:54 m :48.87 s and Dec: +20° 06’
30.6”.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey image of OJ 287
The figure shows panels of radio, optical, X-ray, and Gamma-ray light curves, waveforms of the sonification as a function of time, and spectrograms of the blazar OJ 287. The light curves are available at: Download Light curves.
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References
- Valtonen, M. J., Nilsson, K., Sillanpää, A., Takalo, L. O., Lehto, H. J., Keel, W. C., ... & Mattingly, A. (2006). The 2005 November outburst in OJ 287 and the binary black hole model. The Astrophysical Journal, 643(1), L9.
- Shi, W., Liu, X., & Song, H. (2007). A new model for the periodic outbursts of the BL Lac object OJ287. Astrophysics and Space Science, 310(1), 59-63.