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  • Dhiman, Vinit; Gupta, Alok C; Kurtanidze, Sofia O; Eglitis, I; Strigachev, A; Damljanovic, G; Wiita, Paul J; Gu, Minfeng; Gaur, Haritma; Oliver, Vince; Bachev, R; Bisen, D P; Ibryamov, S; Ivanidze, R Z; Jovanovic, Miljana D; Kurtanidze, Omar M; Nikolashvili, M G; Semkov, E; Spassov, B; Stojanovic, M; Villarroel, Beatriz; Xu, Haiguang; Zhang, Zhongli

    arXiv.org, 12/2022
    Paper, Journal Article

    We report the flux and spectral variability of PG 1553+113 on intra-night (IDV) to short-term timescales using BVRI data collected over 91 nights from 28 February to 8 November 2019 employing ten optical telescopes: three in Bulgaria, two each in India and Serbia, and one each in Greece, Georgia, and Latvia. We monitored the blazar quasi-simultaneously for 16 nights in the V and R bands and 8 nights in the V, R, I bands and examined the light curves (LCs) for intra-day flux and colour variations using two powerful tests: the power-enhanced F-test and the nested ANOVA test. The source was found to be significantly (> 99%) variable in 4 nights out of 27 in R-band, 1 out of 16 in V-band, and 1 out of 6 nights in I-band. No temporal variations in the colours were observed on IDV timescale. During the course of these observations the total variation in R-band was 0.89 mag observed. We also investigated the spectral energy distribution (SED) using B, V, R, and I band data. We found optical spectral indices in the range of 0.878+-0.029 to 1.106+-0.065 by fitting a power law to these SEDs of PG 1553+113. We found that the source follows a bluer-when-brighter trend on IDV timescales. We discuss possible physical causes of the observed spectral variability.