Blazars From The Palomar-Quest Survey

"Variability-Based Identĩcations of Blazar Candidates", T. Morton, et al., 2008, BAAS, 41, 32 (Jan'09 AAS poster) [20 MB pdf file]

drift scan and point-and-stare modes, supplemented by a few early observations from the JPL NEAT team, and brought to an empirically determined common zero-point using nearby stars, and roughly zero-pointed using USNO-B catalog. No color terms have been applied at this time.

PKS 1502+106

RA = 15h 04m 25.0s, Dec = +10d 29m 39s (J2000)
z = 1.839
ATEL 1650 (GLAST detection of the gamma-ray flaring)
ATEL 1661 (PQ and CSS light curves)

PQ light curve (ASCII) * CSS light curve (ASCII) * CSS light curve (interactive plot)

Sample images in the high and low states. Field size ~ 3.2 arcmin.

NED data on this object * VO DataScope form

3C 454.3

RA = 22h 53m 57.7479s, Dec = +16d 08m 53.56s (J2000)
z = 0.859
Early GLAST image
ATEL 1684 (PQ and CSS light curves)
PQ light curve (ASCII)

CSS light curve (ASCII; note: zero-point ~ 1 mag off)

Sample images in the high and low states:

NED data on this object * VO DataScope form

... more blazars coming ...

CSS light curves of Fermi/Agile favorite blazars