Long term monitoring of bright TeV Blazars with the MAGIC telescope

TL;DR

This paper reports on long-term gamma-ray monitoring of bright TeV blazars using the MAGIC telescope, providing valuable data for understanding their flaring behavior and enabling multiwavelength follow-up observations.

Contribution

It presents a systematic long-term observational campaign of TeV blazars with MAGIC, highlighting the data's potential for unbiased flaring studies and multiwavelength triggers.

Findings

Collected up to 40 observations per source over a year.

Sensitivity allows detection of flux levels as low as 25% of the Crab flux.

Data supports studies of blazar flaring statistics.

Abstract

The MAGIC telescope has performed long term monitoring observations of the bright TeV Blazars Mrk421, Mrk501 and 1ES1959+650. Up to 40 observations, 30 to 60 minutes each have been performed for each source evenly distributed over the observable period of the year. The sensitivity of MAGIC is sufficient to establish a flux level of 25% of the Crab flux for each measurement. These observations are well suited to trigger multiwavelength ToO observations and the overall collected data allow an unbiased study of the flaring statistics of the observed AGNs.