Flaring Blazars from CRTS

ATel #2955; A. A. Mahabal, A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, M. J. Graham, R. Williams, C. Donalek (Caltech); D. Stern (JPL); J. Prieto (OCIW); M. Catelan (PUC); E. Christensen (Gemini Observatory); E. C. Beshore, S. M. Larson (LPL/UA); R. H. McNaught (ANU).
on 19 Oct 2010; 19:16 UT
Credential Certification: Ashish Mahabal (aam@astro.caltech.edu)

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We report the discovery of several flaring radio sources and blazars by the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS) during the period from 2010-09-15 to 2010-10-15 UT. All these were announced in real-time on the CRTS website.

ID	Disc. Date	RA	Dec	Disc. Mag	Comment
CSS101014:011749-211106	2010-10-14	01:17:48.74	-21:11: 6.4	17.65	PKS_0115-214 z=1.49
CSS101011:222330+010227	2010-10-11	22:23:29.58	+01:02:26.8	17.68
CSS101007:020626-115040	2010-10-07	02:06:26.06	-11:50:39.7	17.86	CGRaBS J0206-1150 z=1
CSS101003:023945-023441	2010-10-03	02:39:45.47	-02:34:40.6	18.08	0237-027 z=1.116
MLS100917:001130+005752	2010-09-17	00:11:30.40	+00:57:51.8	18.99	z=1.484
SSS100917:215122-274223	2010-09-17	21:51:21.89	-27:42:22.9	16.80	z=1.485 QZ_J215121
CSS100915:022634+093844	2010-09-15	02:26:34.25	+09:38:44.4	17.41	z(absorp)=0.893

The redshift for CSS100915:022634+093844 is based on FeII and MgII lines from a Keck spectrum dated 2010-10-04UT.

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. A search for the corresponding gamma-ray flares in the Fermi GST data would be useful.