Long-term monitoring of bright blazars with a dedicated Cherenkov telescope

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1085, Issue , 2009, Pages 850-853

  Bretz, T ^a   Backes, M ^b   Braun, I ^c   Neise, D ^b   Rhode, W ^b   Mannheim, K ^a   Pauss, F ^c   Becker, J K ^b   Biland, A ^c   Britvich, I ^c   Commichau, S C ^c   Dorner, D ^c,d   Hadasch, D ^b   Hildebrand, D ^c   Horisberger, U ^c   Kranich, D ^c   Lorenz, E ^c   Lustermann, W ^c   Pohl, M ^d   Ribordy, M ^e   Renker, D ^f   Rissi, M ^c   Roser U ^c   Straumann, U ^g   Viertel, G ^c   Von Gunten, H ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ray astronomy; AGN; Instrumentation; Monitoring; Remote operation

Indexed keywords

EID: 64249164731     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3076809     Document Type: Conference Paper

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