Abstract—From January 2019 to February 2021, observations of the linear polarization of the object S5 0716+714 were carried out with the Zeiss-600 telescope of SAO RAS. A Felix Savart plate was used as a polaroid. The result is a Fourier power spectrum of the linear polarization variation in the frequency range of \(f = 10\)–\(150\) days\(^{{ - 1}}\) without any harmonic component evidence; the spectrum is proportional to the power law \(F \sim {{f}^{{ - 0.55}}}\). The distribution of polarization values over the entire observation period is subject to the Relay distribution which does not demonstrate any signs of a periodic component. There is a harmonic dependence of the polarization on the brightness of an object with a period of 10 mJy.
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The study was performed within the SAO RAS state assignment approved by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. The author is grateful to the staff of the Laboratory of Spectroscopy and Photometry of Extragalactic Objects for the technical and financial support of this study.
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Amirkhanyan, V.R. BLAZAR S5 0716+714: Variation of Linear Polarization. Astrophys. Bull. 77, 31–39 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990341322010023
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