Flux Monitoring of Intraday Variable Source with the KVN Ulsan Radio Telescope

  • Lee, Jee-Won (Korean VLBI Network, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Sohn, Bong-Won (Korean VLBI Network, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Byun, Do-Young (Korean VLBI Network, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Kim, Sug-Soo S. (Dept. of Astronomy & Space Science, Kyung Hee University)
  • Published : 2011.10.05

Abstract

We introduce the preliminary results of flux monitoring of BL Lac object 0716+714 with the KVN Ulsan 21m radio telescope. This radio source is well known as the intraday variable (IDV) source which is characterized by the rapid flux variation on the time scale of a day or less. In general, the IDV phenomenon is interpreted as the effect of refractive scintillation in the interstellar medium or the evidence of intrinsic flux variation. In previous observations that took a few days, however, it had not been detected the flux variation of short time scale but the monotonic increase and decrease. Therefore, to investigate the longer time scale of 0716+714, we had the flux variation monitoring at 22GHz and 43GHz simultaneously for 9 months from October 2010 to June 2011. We present here the structure functions and the cross correlation functions between different frequencies as well as the light curves.

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