%0 Journal Article
%T A search for chaos in the optical light curve of a blazar: W2R 1926+42
%A Rumen Bachev
%A Banibrata Mukhopadhyay
%A Anton Strigachev
%J Physics
%D 2015
%I arXiv
%R 10.1051/0004-6361/201425563
%X In this work we search for signatures of low-dimensional chaos in the temporal behavior of the Kepler-field blazar W2R 1946+42. We use a publicly available, ~160000 points long and mostly equally spaced, light curve of W2R 1946+42. We apply the correlation integral method to both -- real datasets and phase randomized "surrogates". We are not able to confirm the presence of low-dimensional chaos in the light curve. This result, however, still leads to some important implications for blazar emission mechanisms, which are discussed.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01245v1