Fading of the flare in CGRaBS J0809+5341
ATel #6127; K. Wiersema, R. McErlean, P. T. O'Brien, C. Mountford (University of Leicester)
on 8 May 2014; 15:51 UT
Credential Certification: Klaas Wiersema (kw113@star.le.ac.uk)
Subjects: Optical, Blazar, Transient
Referred to by ATel #: 10916
Recently a very bright flare in blazar CGRaBS J0809+5341 was discovered in unfiltered optical observations (Shumkov et al. ATel #6070), making it one of the most luminous sources known (Balanutsa et al. ATel #6096). We observed this source using the PiCETL telescope at the University of Leicester
observatory in V and R bands, finding V=17.05 +/- 0.05 mag and R=17.44 +/- 0.07 mag at 2014-05-02.98 UT. These indicate significant fading since the values reported by Balanutsa et al. (ATel #6096), but are still ~3 magnitudes brighter than in quiescence.
