Announcement of the campaign (2008/03/12)
We are planning a multi-wavelength campaign on the blazar 1es1959+650 starting at the end of September and finishing at the beginning of November (most coverage will be provided during period October 17th till November 1st).
The main goal of the campaign is to study the broad-band emission, from radio to multi-TeV, of 1es1959+650; with possibility to study flux/spectral variations, depending on the activity of the source during this period.
The campaign manager is David Paneque (dpaneque@slac.stanford.edu)
Please contact the campaign manager if you have telescope time and are interested in joining this campaign. In order to speed up the organization of the campaign, it is recommended to fill in and send us this form.
For this campaign, the policy on data sharing will be: if you observe and send data that can be used, you are a co-author of a resulting multiwavelength publication unless you just want an acknowledgment. By contributing with data, you also gain the right of participating in the interpretation of the overall (reduced) data collected during the campaign. Anyone who contributes data keeps the right to publish those data separately. Yet those separate publications should be done in a coordinated way. We aim to publish (almost) simultaneously the data from the single instruments and the joint publication with the first overall data interpretation from the campaign.
In this MW campaign, the data at GeV energies from the Fermi/LAT instrument is expected to play a key role in the understanding the high energy emission of the source.This source was never detected with EGRET.
Observation schedule
The instruments participating in the campaign, together with the (approximate) observation schedule can be found here (under construction)
Activity of the source during the campaign
Most of the instruments will be providing flux estimates (on a daily basis, whenever possible) of the measurements performed during the campaign.
Those flux estimates will be preliminary and are NOT meant to be used in publications. More reliable and more optimized analysis will be performed once the campaign is finished. The purpose is JUST to inform the community about the source activity.
The table with the preliminary flux estimates can be found here (under construction)
Light Curves with the preliminary fluxes
The preliminary information provided by the different instruments was used to produced Light curves reporting on the activity of the source during the campaign.
A web page with all those light curves can be found here