NIR Flare of the Quasar PKS0736+017
ATel #5733; L. Carrasco, A. Porras, E. Recillas, A. Porras, V. Chabushyan, A. Carraminana, D. Mayya (INAOE, Mexico)
on 8 Jan 2014; 00:52 UT
Credential Certification: LUIS CARRASCO (carrasco@inaoep.mx)
Subjects: Radio, Infra-Red, Optical, Gamma Ray, AGN, Blazar, Quasar
Referred to by ATel #: 12733
We report on the NIR flare of the low redshift quasar PKS0736+017 (z=0.18941), also known as CGRaBSJ0739+0137, associated with the gamma-ray source 2FGL07439.2+0138. The source has shown flares in the past. Our NIR photometry for this source shows that on Jan 7th,2014 (JD2456664.861799), the object brightness corresponded to J = 13.934 +/- 0.04, H = 13.093 +/- 0.05 and Ks = 12.273 +/- 0.04. These values are about 0.8 mag brighter than our previous photometry, obtained on JD2456595, for this field. Hence it has doubled its flux in the last 70 days. The object is brightest since we started monitoring it on JD 2455241. 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 strongly encourage further multiwavelength
