Blazar Monitoring with the Whipple 10m Telescope

ORAL

Abstract

In September 2005, the observing program was redefined and the 10m was dedicated almost exclusively to AGN monitoring. Since then the five Northern Hemisphere blazars that had already been detected at Whipple, Markarian 421, H1426+428, Markarian 501, 1ES1959+650 and 1ES2344+514, have been monitored routinely each night that they are visible. Thanks to the efforts of a large number of collaborators, a significant amount of data over the entire spectrum has been gathered on these five AGN. We report here on the overview and current status of this blazars multiwavelength, monitoring campaign which is ongoing. We present lightcurves and the broadband spectral energy distributions along with an interpretation in the framework of inverse-Compton models.

Authors

  • Kuen Lee

    Washington University in St. Louis