Upcoming Kepler monitoring of OJ 287
ATel #7056; Rick Edelson (University of Maryland), Ian McHardy (University of Southampton), Svetlana Jorstad (Boston University), Alan Marscher (Boston University), Talvikki Hovatta (Metsahovi Radio Observatory), Simon Vaughan (University of Leicester)
on 12 Feb 2015; 22:50 UT
Credential Certification: Rick Edelson (rickedelson@gmail.com)
Subjects: Radio, Millimeter, Sub-Millimeter, Far-Infra-Red, Infra-Red, Optical, Ultra-Violet, X-ray, Request for Observations, AGN, Blazar
We wish to alert the community that Kepler will monitor the archetypal low-frequency peak BL Lac object OJ 287 (RA=08 54 48.9, Dec=+20 06 31, z=0.306, V=14-16) with 1 min sampling at >90% duty cycle and high S/N in K2 Campaign 5, scheduled to run 2015 Apr 27 - Jul 13. We are organizing multiwavelength observations that can relate these optical data to other bands with unprecedented temporal resolution and coverage. We have approved or requested monitoring in the X-rays with XMM-Newton, Suzaku and Swift, in the optical with LCOGT, and in the radio with OVRO and Metsahovi Observatory. Further, this source will be detected by Fermi when bright and VLBA monitoring is continuing. However, we have not yet arranged sufficient optical polarization monitoring. We ask that observers who could make such measurements, or who have further ideas for other useful observations please contact Rick Edelson at redelson@astro.umd.edu.
