The ‘Big Dipper’: the nature of the extreme variability of the AGN SDSS J2232−0806
(2019)
Journal Article
Kynoch, D., Ward, M. J., Lawrence, A., Bruce, A. G., Landt, H., & MacLeod, C. L. (2019). The ‘Big Dipper’: the nature of the extreme variability of the AGN SDSS J2232−0806. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(2), 2573-2588. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz517
SDSS J2232−0806 (the ‘Big Dipper’) has been identified as a ‘slow-blue nuclear hypervariable’: a galaxy with no previously known active nucleus, blue colours, and large-amplitude brightness evolution occurring on a time-scale of years. Subsequent obs... Read More about The ‘Big Dipper’: the nature of the extreme variability of the AGN SDSS J2232−0806.