Optically flaring Blazars from CRTS
ATel #2652; A. A. Mahabal, A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, M. J. Graham, R. Williams, C. Donalek (Caltech); J. Prieto (OCIW); M. Catelan (PUC); E. Christensen (Gemini Observatory); E. C. Beshore, S. M. Larson (LPL/UA); R. H. McNaught (ANU)
on 28 May 2010; 23:30 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Transients
Credential Certification: Ashish Mahabal (aam@astro.caltech.edu)
Subjects: Radio, Optical, Request for Observations, Blazar, Quasar, Transient
Referred to by ATel #: 2654
We report the discovery of flaring radio sources and blazars by the Catalina Real-time
Transient Survey
(CRTS) in data from the Catalina Sky Survey during the period from 2010-04-04
to 2010-05-22 UT. All these were announced in real-time on the CRTS website.
| ID | Disc. Date | RA | Dec | Disc.
Mag | Comment |
|---|
| CSS100522:151149-051347 | 2010-05-22 | 15:11:48.54 | -05:13:47.4 | 17.40 | NVSS J151148-051345
FIRST detection
Possible x-ray match |
| CSS100521:223622+282857 | 2010-05-21 | 22:36:22.46 | +28:28:57.4 | 16.51 |
z=0.795
HB 2234+282
QSO |
| CSS100517:115911-222837 | 2010-05-17 | 11:59:11.26 | -22:28:37.3 | 17.43 |
z=0.565
HB 89 1156-221
QSO |
| CSS100516:121759-002946 | 2010-05-16 | 12:17:58.72 | -00:29:46.0 | 15.58 |
PKS 1215-002 |
| CSS100512:081902+322638 | 2010-05-12 | 08:19:02.31 | +32:26:37.5 | 18.20 |
z=0.65
IVS B0815+326
x-ray source
QSO |
| CSS100506:135104+003119 | 2010-05-06 | 13:51:04.42 | +00:31:19.1 | 19.21 |
z=2.084
PKS 1348+007
CRATES J135103+003120
|
| CSS100504:215225+173437 | 2010-05-04 | 21:52:24.79 | +17:34:37.4 | 17.15 | CGRaBS J2152+1734
|
| CSS100413:132854+174318 | 2010-04-13 | 13:28:54.41 | +17:43:18.2 | 19.16 |
FIRST source |
| CSS100408:073324+365005 | 2010-04-08 | 07:33:24.32 | +36:50:04.7 | 17.74 |
GB6 B0730+3657
FIRST source
NVSS source |
| CSS100406:102834-023660 | 2010-04-06 | 10:28:34.06 | -02:36:59.6 | 16.37 |
z=0.476
1WGA J1028
FIRST source |
| CSS100404:131251-042450 | 2010-04-04 | 13:12:50.84 | -04:24:49.8 | 17.19 |
z=0.825
CGRaBS J1312-0424 |
More information and finding charts can be found at http://voeventnet.caltech.edu/feeds/ATEL/CRTS/
All CRTS Blazar discoveries are available from http://crts.caltech.edu/ and http://www.skyalert.org/.
Follow-up is requested.
CRTS Transients
