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

Autores
Van Soelen, Brian; Van der Westhuizen, Izak; Hanlon, Lorraine; Martin-Carrillo, Antonio; Meintjes, Pieter; Murphy, David; Van Heerden, Hendrik
Año de publicación
2015
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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
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Ciencias Astronómicas
Active Galactic Nuclei
photometric monitoring
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv On going optical photometric monitoring of AGN TeV targets with the Watcher Robotic Telescope
title On going optical photometric monitoring of AGN TeV targets with the Watcher Robotic Telescope
spellingShingle On going optical photometric monitoring of AGN TeV targets with the Watcher Robotic Telescope
Van Soelen, Brian
Ciencias Astronómicas
Active Galactic Nuclei
photometric monitoring
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
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Van Soelen, Brian
Van der Westhuizen, Izak
Hanlon, Lorraine
Martin-Carrillo, Antonio
Meintjes, Pieter
Murphy, David
Van Heerden, Hendrik
author Van Soelen, Brian
author_facet Van Soelen, Brian
Van der Westhuizen, Izak
Hanlon, Lorraine
Martin-Carrillo, Antonio
Meintjes, Pieter
Murphy, David
Van Heerden, Hendrik
author_role author
author2 Van der Westhuizen, Izak
Hanlon, Lorraine
Martin-Carrillo, Antonio
Meintjes, Pieter
Murphy, David
Van Heerden, Hendrik
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Astronómicas
Active Galactic Nuclei
photometric monitoring
topic Ciencias Astronómicas
Active Galactic Nuclei
photometric monitoring
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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
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.
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