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The Variability Structure Function of the Highest-Luminosity Quasars on Short Timescales

The Variability Structure Function of the Highest-Luminosity Quasars on Short Timescales

The stochastic photometric variability of quasars is known to follow a random-walk phenomenology on emission timescales of months to years. Some high-cadence restframe optical monitoring in the past has hinted at a suppression of variability amplitudes on shorter timescales of a few days or weeks, opening the question of what …