Monitoreo de blazares con el Telescopio Whipple de rayos gamma

A. PICHEL, A.C. ROVERO, POR LA COLABORACIÓN VERITAS

San Juan

Congreso; 51a Reunión Anual de la Asociación Argentina de Astronomía; 2008

AAA

Since September 2005, the Whipple 10 m Gamma-ray Telescope has been used primarily to monitor known TeV blazars. The five blazars that have been previously detected at Whipple: Markarian 421, H1426+428, Markarian 501, 1ES 1959+650 and 1ES 2344+514, are monitored each night that they are visible. Alerts are sent to VERITAS any time these ob jects are flaring to trigger ToO observations. The light curves for these blazars are produced and combined with observations in radio, optical and X-ray in the frame of Multiwavelengths Campaigns. We present here the results for the 2005-08 observations of Mrk421.