A new NIR Flare of the QSO BZUJ1048+7143
ATel #5739; L. Carrasco, A. Porras, E. Recillas, G. Escobedo, V. Chabushyan, A. Carraminana, D. Mayya (INAOE, Mexico)
on 9 Jan 2014; 00:46 UT
Credential Certification: LUIS CARRASCO (carrasco@inaoep.mx)
Subjects: Radio, Infra-Red, Optical, Gamma Ray, AGN, Blazar, Quasar
We report on the present NIR flare of the high redshift quasar BZUJ1048+7143 also known as CGRaBSJ1048+7143 (z=1.15), cross identified with the gamma ray source 1FGLJ1048.8+7145 and the radio source S51044_71 On January 6th,2014, epoch JD2456663.09816, we determined the flux in the H band to be 11.472 +/- 0.04. That is about 2 magnitudes brighter than the flux we determined previously for this object, on JD2456609.0471, when we found the object to be H = 13.489 +/- 0.04. The object is brightest since the epoch at which we started monitoring it in NIR wavelengths (JD 24534592). Observations were 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 multi-wavelength coverage
