On going optical photometric monitoring of AGN TeV targets with the Watcher Robotic Telescope

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) show variability on various time scales and present complex correlations between these variations at different wavelengths. Simultaneous multi-wavelength observations can therefore be used to place constraints on the different emission models. In May 2015 we began optic...

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Autores principales: Van Soelen, Brian, Van der Westhuizen, Izak, Hanlon, Lorraine, Martin-Carrillo, Antonio, Meintjes, Pieter, Murphy, David, Van Heerden, Hendrik
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Publicado: 2015
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Active Galactic Nuclei
photometric monitoring
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/168115
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1681152024-07-29T20:01:49Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/168115 On going optical photometric monitoring of AGN TeV targets with the Watcher Robotic Telescope Van Soelen, Brian Van der Westhuizen, Izak Hanlon, Lorraine Martin-Carrillo, Antonio Meintjes, Pieter Murphy, David Van Heerden, Hendrik 2015-10 2016 2024-07-29T16:33:30Z en Ciencias Astronómicas Active Galactic Nuclei photometric monitoring Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) show variability on various time scales and present complex correlations between these variations at different wavelengths. Simultaneous multi-wavelength observations can therefore be used to place constraints on the different emission models. In May 2015 we began optical photometric monitoring of a subset of the known TeV emitting AGN using the Watcher Robotic Telescopes (Boyden Observatory, South Africa) to obtain long term photometric monitoring of these sources. Currently 17 targets are included in this monitoring campaign. The sources are observed once per night in the V, R & i’ bands, depending on observability and weather. The V, R and V-R light curves of four blazars are presented, all of which show variability which is consistent with previous studies. This demonstrates the feasibility of using the Watcher telescope to provide long term optical photometric monitoring of TeV blazars. Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas Objeto de conferencia Objeto de conferencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf 183-186
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topic Ciencias Astronómicas
Active Galactic Nuclei
photometric monitoring
spellingShingle Ciencias Astronómicas
Active Galactic Nuclei
photometric monitoring
Van Soelen, Brian
Van der Westhuizen, Izak
Hanlon, Lorraine
Martin-Carrillo, Antonio
Meintjes, Pieter
Murphy, David
Van Heerden, Hendrik
On going optical photometric monitoring of AGN TeV targets with the Watcher Robotic Telescope
topic_facet Ciencias Astronómicas
Active Galactic Nuclei
photometric monitoring
description Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) show variability on various time scales and present complex correlations between these variations at different wavelengths. Simultaneous multi-wavelength observations can therefore be used to place constraints on the different emission models. In May 2015 we began optical photometric monitoring of a subset of the known TeV emitting AGN using the Watcher Robotic Telescopes (Boyden Observatory, South Africa) to obtain long term photometric monitoring of these sources. Currently 17 targets are included in this monitoring campaign. The sources are observed once per night in the V, R & i’ bands, depending on observability and weather. The V, R and V-R light curves of four blazars are presented, all of which show variability which is consistent with previous studies. This demonstrates the feasibility of using the Watcher telescope to provide long term optical photometric monitoring of TeV blazars.
format Objeto de conferencia
Objeto de conferencia
author Van Soelen, Brian
Van der Westhuizen, Izak
Hanlon, Lorraine
Martin-Carrillo, Antonio
Meintjes, Pieter
Murphy, David
Van Heerden, Hendrik
author_facet Van Soelen, Brian
Van der Westhuizen, Izak
Hanlon, Lorraine
Martin-Carrillo, Antonio
Meintjes, Pieter
Murphy, David
Van Heerden, Hendrik
author_sort Van Soelen, Brian
title On going optical photometric monitoring of AGN TeV targets with the Watcher Robotic Telescope
title_short On going optical photometric monitoring of AGN TeV targets with the Watcher Robotic Telescope
title_full On going optical photometric monitoring of AGN TeV targets with the Watcher Robotic Telescope
title_fullStr On going optical photometric monitoring of AGN TeV targets with the Watcher Robotic Telescope
title_full_unstemmed On going optical photometric monitoring of AGN TeV targets with the Watcher Robotic Telescope
title_sort on going optical photometric monitoring of agn tev targets with the watcher robotic telescope
publishDate 2015
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/168115
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