期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 708, 期 2, 页码 927-945出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/708/2/927
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cosmology: observations; galaxies: active; quasars: general; stars: variables: other
Robust fast methods to classify variable light curves in large sky surveys are becoming increasingly important. While it is relatively straightforward to identify common periodic stars and particular transient events (supernovae, novae, microlensing events), there is no equivalent for non-periodic continuously varying sources (quasars, aperiodic stellar variability). In this paper, we present a fast method for modeling and classifying such sources. We demonstrate the method using similar to 86,000 variable sources from the OGLE-II survey of the LMC and similar to 2700 mid-IR-selected quasar candidates from the OGLE-III survey of the LMC and SMC. We discuss the location of common variability classes in the parameter space of the model. In particular, we show that quasars occupy a distinct region of variability space, providing a simple quantitative approach to the variability selection of quasars.
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