30TH INTERNATIONAL COSMIC RAY CONFERENCE Results from the Blazar Monitoring Campaign at the Whipple 10m Gamma-ray Telescope

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  • DAVID STEELE
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In September 2005, the observing program of the Whipple 10 m gamma-ray telescope was redefined to be dedicated almost exclusively to AGN monitoring. Since then the five Northern Hemisphere blazars that had already been detected at Whipple are monitored routinely each night that they are visible. Thanks to the efforts of a large number of multiwavelength collaborators, the first year of this program has been very successful. We report here on the analysis of Markarian 421 observations taken from November, 2005 to May, 2006 in the gamma-ray, X-ray, optical and radio bands.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008