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    • Keywords

       

      BL Lacertae objects: general; BL Lacertae objects: individual: PKS 1510-089; method: time-series analysis.

    • Abstract

       

      We report the detection of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the radio light curve of the blazar PKS 1510-089 spanning nearly 38 years, by means of the weighted wavelet Z-transform and Lomb–Scargle periodogram methods. Prominent QPOs with high confidence (>4$\sigma$) of $570\pm 30$, $800\pm 30$; and $1070\pm 40$ days in the 8 GHz light curve, $430\pm 10$ and $1080 \pm 30$ days in the 14.5 GHz light curve have been identified after estimating the significance against the red noise background. Moreover, the most significant QPO of about 1080 days exceeded 4$\sigma$ confidence level at two of the three frequencies but did not exactly persist the whole observations, indicating that QPOs in blazars are transient in nature. We suggest that the search for QPO in blazar light curves should evaluate the statistical significances and consider theinfluences of the colored noise, after reviewing earlier QPO claims of PKS 1510-089.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      XIAO-PAN LI1 LUN ZHAO1 YUE YAN1 LI-SHA WANG1 HAI-TAO YANG1 YAN CAI1 YU-HUI LUO1 2

      1. College of Physics and Information Engineering, Zhaotong University, Zhaotong 657000, China.
      2. Faculty of Civil Engineering and Mechanics/Faculty of Science, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China.

    • Dates

       
      Published
      31 July 2021
      Manuscript received
      24 February 2021
      Accepted
      10 May 2021
      Final version published online
      31 July 2021

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