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Flaring Blazars from CRTS

ATel #3321; 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); V. Mohan (IUCAA)
on 3 May 2011; 19:21 UT
Credential Certification: Ashish Mahabal (aam@astro.caltech.edu)

Subjects: Radio, Optical, Blazar, Transient

Referred to by ATel #: 3324, 3347

We report the discovery of several flaring radio sources and blazars by the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS) in data from the Catalina Sky Survey during the last few days. All these were announced in real-time on the CRTS website.

IDDisc. DateRADecDisc. MagComment (redshift/NVSS peak flux)
CSS110503:114658+3958342011-05-0311:46:58.30+39:58:34.215.93B2 1144+40, z=1.088; 336 mJy
CSS110501:145427+5124342011-05-0114:54:27.13+51:24:33.616.26SBS 1452+516 z=1.08; 109 mJy
CSS110428:130824+3546372011-04-2813:08:23.67+35:46:37.218.14216 mJy
CSS110427:133245+4722242011-04-2713:32:45.23+47:22:23.916.49z=0.669; 161 mJy
CSS110427:151437+4450042011-04-2715:14:36.56+44:50: 4.217.75BZQ J1514+4450 z=0.57; 31 mJy
CSS110426:162542+4118422011-04-2616:25:42.17+41:18:42.316.9571 mJy

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 data would be useful.