A new NIR Flare of the blazar BZQJ1146+3958
ATel #5734; L. Carrasco, A. Porras, E. Recillas, A. Porras, V. Chabushyan, A. Carraminana, D. Mayya (INAOE, Mexico)
on 8 Jan 2014; 01:27 UT
Credential Certification: LUIS CARRASCO (carrasco@inaoep.mx)
Subjects: Radio, Infra-Red, Optical, Gamma Ray, AGN, Blazar, Quasar
We report on the NIR flare of the high redshift quasar BZQ J1146+3958
(z=1.09), also known as CGRaBSJ1146+3958, associated with the gamma-ray source 2FGLJ1146.9+4000. Our photometry shows that on Jan 8th,2014 (JD2456665.0113), the object brightness corresponded to
J = 14.265+/- 0.04, H = 13.558 +/- 0.01 and Ks = 12.701 +/- 0.03. These values are about 1.8 magnitudes brighter than our previous photometry, obtained on JD2456463, for this field. Hence it has more than doubled its flux in this lapse. The object is almost as bright as a previous flare,
seen on JD 2455704. 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 coverage.
