Photometric follow-up of blazar TXS 1515-273 with GROWTH-India
ATel #12570; Viraj Karambelkar (IITB), Harsh Kumar (IITB), Gaurav Waratkar (IITB), Shubham Srivastav (IITB), Urgain Stanzin (IAO), Varun Bhalerao (IITB), G. C. Anupama (IIA)
on 13 Mar 2019; 00:27 UT
Credential Certification: Shubham Srivastav (shubhamsrivastav@iitb.ac.in)
Subjects: Optical, Blazar
Referred to by ATel #: 12575
We report photometric observations of the flaring blazar TXS 1515-273 (ATels #12565, #12532, #12537, #12552) with the 0.7 meter GROWTH-India telescope. The magnitudes in the g, r and i filters, calibrated against PS1 reference stars in the field, are as follows:
MJD Filter Magnitude
58549.85 g 16.13 ± 0.02
58549.86 r 15.64 ± 0.02
58549.87 i 15.25 ± 0.03
58550.85 g 16.20 ± 0.02
58550.86 r 15.65 ± 0.01
58550.87 i 15.26 ± 0.02
58551.86 g 16.25 ± 0.02
58551.87 r 15.69 ± 0.01
58551.87 i 15.29 ± 0.04
58552.85 g 16.19 ± 0.03
58552.85 r 15.63 ± 0.02
58552.86 i 15.20 ± 0.03
GROWTH-India is a 0.7 meter telescope set up by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), with support from the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (https://sites.google.com/view/growthindia/). It is located at the Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO) at Hanle, Ladakh (India).
