Further NIR brightening of the high redshift the blazar BZQJ0348-2749
ATel #12174; L. Carrasco, G. Escobedo, E. Recillas, A. Porras, V. Chavushyan, D. Y. Mayya (INAOE, Mexico)
on 6 Nov 2018; 01:15 UT
Credential Certification: LUIS CARRASCO (carrasco@inaoep.mx)
Subjects: Radio, Infra-Red, Blazar, Quasar
We report on the NIR brightening of the high redshift QSO BZQJ0348-2749 (z=0.991). 0n October 26th,2018 MJD(24578417.9100), we found the source with NIR flux H = 13.508 +/- 0.05, on MJD 2456650.75 the flux in the H band corresponded to H = 15.530 +/- 0.05. Hence, the source has increased its flux by a factor of 5.7 in this lapse. The source is brightest since the time we started monitoring it (MJD 2455499), when the flux in the H band was H = 17.224 +/- 0.15 Our observations are carried out with the 2.1m telescope of the Guillermo Haro Observatory operated by the National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (Mexico), equipped with the instrument CANICA a NIR camera. We encourage further multiwavelength coverage.
