PKS 2008-159 multiwavelength SED

Also known as 1FLAT J201115.7-154640, 1Jy 2008-159, 1OUNYU J201116-1546.6, 5BZQ J2011-1546, BZQ J2011-1546, CRATES J201115-154641, PKS B2008-159, WMAP14, WMAP5 J2011-1547.

• Class: FSRQ
• Redshift: z = 1.178
• Position (ICRS): RA 302.81546°, Dec −15.77785°
• Data: 5,911 points (7 upper limits) from 39 catalogues
• Dated data: 2006–2024 (MJD 54045–60489)
• Undated catalogue values: 192
• 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: 22 UVOT and 47 XRT
• Largest catalogues (points): ASAS-SN (4,698), ZTF (646), MMDCXRT (126), PanSTARRS-LC (93), PACO (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=302.81546, dec=-15.77785, name="PKS 2008-159")

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

Other FSRQs

• PKS 1958-179
• TXS 1957-135
• PKS 1936-15
• PKS 2023-07
• TXS 1920-211
• PKS B1921-293

How to cite

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