V. S. Paliya

Intranight optical variability of \gamma-ray loud Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the {\it Fermi} Gamma Ray Space Telescope has detected \gamma-ray emission from some Narrow Line Seyfert 1(NLSy1) galaxies. This indicates the presence of relativistic jets in these sources similar to blazars and radio galaxies. In an attempt to have an idea of the intranight optical variability (INOV) characteristics of these \gamma-ray loud NLSy1 galaxies, we have carried out optical flux monitoring observations of three NLSy1 galaxies detected by {\it Fermi}/LAT: 1H 0323+342, PMN J0948+0022 and PKS 1502+036. These optical monitoring observations showed the presence of rapid optical flux variations in these sources. The intranight differential light curves of these sources have revealed flux variations on time scales of hours with amplitudes of variability > 3 percent for most of the time. On using the {\it F}-statistics to classify the variability nature of these sources, we obtained a duty cycle (DC) of INOV of ~85 percent. Alternatively, the more commonly used {\it C}-statistics gave a DC of INOV of ~57 percent. Such high DC of INOV are characteristics of the BL Lac class of AGN. The results of our monitoring observations thus indicate that there is similarity in the INOV nature of \gamma-ray loud NLSy1 galaxies and BL Lac objects, arguing strongly for the presence of relativistic jets aligned closely to the observers line of sight. Moreover, our dense monitoring observations on some of the nights have led to the clear detection of some mini-flares superimposed on the flux variations during the night over timescales as short as 12 minutes. The detection of short timescale flux variability in the sources studied here is clearly due to stronger time compression leading to the jets in these sources having large Doppler factors, similar to that of the inner jets of TeV blazars.

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