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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 59: Gammaastronomie 3
T 59.2: Group Report
Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 17:05–17:25, H 2
M@TE - Monitoring at TeV Energies — Daniela Dorner1, •Thomas Bretz2, Ruben Alfaro3, Magdalena González3, Gagik Tovmassian3, Simone Dichiara3, and Karl Mannheim1 — 1Universität Würzburg, Germany — 2RWTH Aachen, Germany — 3Universidad Autónoma de México, Mexico
Blazars are extremely variable objects emitting radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum and showing variability on time scales from minutes to years. To study typical variability time scales from hours to minutes, continuous observations are crucial.
A dedicated long-term monitoring program for bright TeV blazars has been started by the FACT project about five years ago. Being limited to one site, gaps due to the rotation of the Earth remain in the measured light curves. To allow for systematic studies using continuous observations over up to 12 hours, a second telescope is being installed at the observatory in San Pedro Martir in Mexico.
For the M@TE (Monitoring at TeV energies) telescope, a mount from a previous experiment is being refurbished and will be equipped with a new camera. Using silicon based photo sensors like in FACT, an excellent and stable performance will be achieved. M@TE is a joint project of German and Mexican universities which aims at extending the blazar monitoring to so far unexplored time ranges.
In the presentation, the status of the project will be discussed.