PKS 0159-062 multiwavelength SED

Also known as 1FLAT J020206.8-055900, 5BZG J0202-0559, BZQ J0202-0559, CRATES J0202-0559, CRATES J020206-055853.

• Class: BL Lac
• Redshift: z = 0.189
• Position (ICRS): RA 30.52863°, Dec −5.98342°
• Data: 2,699 points (12 upper limits) from 34 catalogues
• Dated data: 2009–2024 (MJD 54984–60602)
• Undated catalogue values: 92
• Frequency range of detections: log ν = 7.9–25.4 [Hz] (radio, microwave, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, X-ray, γ-ray)
• Swift measurements analysed by MMDC: 8 UVOT and 11 XRT
• Largest catalogues (points): ZTF (1,062), ASAS-SN (782), NEOWISE (520), WISEME (126), PanSTARRS-LC (80)

Get the data

• The SED as CSV from the MMDC SED API (docs.mmdc.am).
• In Python, with astro-mmdc:

  from astro_mmdc import MMDC
  sed = MMDC().sed.get(ra=30.52863, dec=-5.98342, name="PKS 0159-062")

• The interactive SED plot, with time filtering and modeling (needs JavaScript).

Other BL Lac objects

• PKS 0139-09
• MS 0158.5+0019
• PKS 0130-083
• UGC 773
• TXS 0159+085
• TXS 0053-098

How to cite

Sahakyan, N., Vardanyan, V., Giommi, P., et al. 2024, AJ, 168, 289, doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ad8231 (arXiv:2410.01207).