High Activity States of Blazars 1055+018 and 0954+658
ATel #7114; Svetlana Jorstad (IAR, Boston U., Boston, USA & St. Petersburg State U., St. Petersburg, Russia)
on 20 Feb 2015; 01:43 UT
Credential Certification: Svetlana Jorstad (jorstad@bu.edu)
Referred to by ATel #: 7135
The BLLac object 1055+018 shows a high activity at optical wavelengths. Our observations at the Perkins telescope (Flagstaff, AZ) on February 17/18, 2015 show that the source is ~ 2mag (R~14.7) brighter and highly polarized (P~24%) than it was during our previous optical observations in 2014 June (R~17.0 and P~5%).
The BLLac object 0954+658 continues to be in a dramatically high state: our observations at the Perkins telescope, Flagstaff, AZ show that after fading to R~13.8 on February 18 the blazar brightened again last night (February 19) to R~13.5 and increased the degree of optical polarization in R band from 14% to 25%. Multi-wavelength observations of the sources are encouraged.
