Large NIR brightening of the Blazar 4C+01.02
ATel #12243; L. Carrasco, J. Miramon, E. Recillas, A. Porras, V. Chavushyan, D. Y. Mayya (INAOE, Mexico)
on 27 Nov 2018; 08:32 UT
Credential Certification: LUIS CARRASCO (carrasco@inaoep.mx)
Subjects: Radio, Infra-Red, Optical, Gamma Ray, AGN, Blazar, Quasar
Referred to by ATel #: 14404
We report on the NIR brightening of the high redshift QSO 4C+01.02 (z=2.099), cross identified with the Gamma ray source 2FGLJ0108.6+0135. 0n November 26th,2018 MJD(24578448.7551), we found the source with NIR fluxes J = 15.911 +/- 0.03, H = 14.905 +/- 0.05 and Ks = 14.130 +/- 0.04, while on MJD 2458025.94 the flux in the H band corresponded to H = 16.629 +/- 0.02. Hence, the source has increased its flux by a factor of 5 in this lapse. The source is brightest since the time we started monitoring it (MJD 2455471), when the flux in the H band was H = 15.552 +/- 0.02. 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.
