SIMBAD references

E. Rykoff, Physics Department, University of Michigan, on behalf of the ROTSE collaboration, reports that ROTSE-III sky- patrol images taken on Jan.23 revealed an outburst of 2QZ J142701.6-012310 (initially classified as a possible blazar in the 2dF quasar survey by Veron-Cetty and Veron 2003, A.Ap. 412, 399) at mag R = 15.1; the variable was not detected in ROTSE-III images taken on Jan. 21 (R > 18.0). The object is visible as a very blue pointlike object in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at R = 20.4. Rykoff adds that a spectrum taken on Jan. 25 with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory shows no obvious absorption or emission features.