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A Study of the Variability and Proper Motions of Quasars based on Tautenburg Schmidt Plates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

H. Meusinger
Affiliation:
Thuringer Landessternwarte, D-07778 Tautenburg, F. R. Germany
S. Klose
Affiliation:
Thuringer Landessternwarte, D-07778 Tautenburg, F. R. Germany
R. Ziener
Affiliation:
Thuringer Landessternwarte, D-07778 Tautenburg, F. R. Germany
R.-D. Scholz
Affiliation:
WIP Astrometrie, Universitat Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam, F. R. Germany

Abstract

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We report on the present status of an ongoing study of variability and proper motion of quasars based on Tautenburg Schmidt plates of the field around M3. The main aspects are: (i) a thorough investigation of variability of a sample of known quasars based on a large number of B plates with a long time baseline and the comparison of variability in U, B, and V; (ii) the variability - proper motion diagram for the objects with B ≲ 20.5 mag in this field and the loci of known quasars in this diagram. The primary aim of this work is to check the suitability of Tautenburg Schmidt plates for a combined variability - proper motion quasar survey.

Type
XII. Cosmology
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1995

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