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	<title>Polarimetric Observations of BL Lac</title>
	<altname type="ADC">J/AZh/71/717</altname>
		<altname type="CDS">J/AZh/71/717</altname>
		<altname type="brief">Polarimetric Observations of BL Lac</altname>
	<reference>
		<source>
<journal>
	<title>Polarimetric Observations of BL Lac</title>
	<author>
			<initial>V</initial>
			<initial>A</initial>
			<lastName>Gagen-Torn</lastName></author>
	<author>
			<initial>S</initial>
			<initial>G</initial>
			<lastName>Marchenko</lastName></author>
	<author>
			<initial>A</initial>
			<initial>V</initial>
			<lastName>Yurchenko</lastName></author>
	<author>
			<initial>V</initial>
			<initial>A</initial>
			<lastName>Yakovleva</lastName></author>
	<name>Astron. Zh.</name>
	<volume>71</volume>
	<pageno>717</pageno>
		<date>
			<year>1994</year></date>
	<bibcode>1994AZh....71..717G</bibcode></journal></source></reference>
	<keywords parentListURL="http://messier.gsfc.nasa.gov/xml/keywordlists/adc_keywords.html">
			<keyword xlink:href="BL_Lac_objects.html">BL Lac objects</keyword>
			<keyword xlink:href="Polarization.html">Polarization</keyword></keywords>
	<descriptions>
				<description>
				<para>
    This paper continues publications that report the results  of
    photoelectric polarization measurements of the blazar BL Lac.
    Earlier, we published observational data obtained over the period
    1969-1982 (Gagen-Torn et al., 1984AZh....61..925G). Here, we
    discuss the observations over the period 1983-1991.</para></description>
                        <details>
	<astroObjects>
		
			<astroObject><name>BL Lac</name><position><ra>22 02 43.3</ra><dec>+42 16 40</dec></position></astroObject></astroObjects></details></descriptions>
	<tableHead>
		<tableLinks>
				<tableLink xlink:href="table">
	<title>Results from polarimetric observations
                                 of BL Lac</title></tableLink></tableLinks>
	<fields>
		<field>
			<name>Date</name>
			<definition>Date of observation (month, day)</definition>
			<units>---</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>Year</name>
			<definition>Year of the observation.</definition>
			<units>yr</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>JD</name>
			<definition>Julian Day</definition>
			<units>d</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>P</name>
			<definition>Polarization parameters P</definition>
			<units>%</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>u_P</name>
			<definition>Uncertainty flag on P</definition>
			<units>---</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>e_P</name>
			<definition>Error on P</definition>
			<units>%</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>Q</name>
			<definition>Polarization parameters Q</definition>
			<units>deg</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>u_Q</name>
			<definition>Uncertainty flag on Q</definition>
			<units>---</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>e_Q</name>
			<definition>Error on Q</definition>
			<units>deg</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>d</name>
			<definition>Flag for aperture used in the observation:
                                       1 - 18.8" ; 3 - 26.7"</definition>
			<units>---</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>Fo/Fb</name>
			<definition>Ratio of the object flux to the background flux</definition>
			<units>---</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>N</name>
			<definition>Number of observations</definition>
			<units>---</units></field></fields></tableHead>
	
	<history>
		<ingest>
	
			<creator>
				<lastName>Veta Avedisova</lastName>
				<affiliation>INASAN</affiliation></creator>
	<date>
		<year>1997</year><month>Jan</month><day>29</day></date></ingest>
		</history>
	<identifier>J_AZh_71_717.xml</identifier></dataset>
