TELAMON
Monitoring of AGN Jets with Very-High-Energy Astroparticle Emission
The TELAMON program is using the Effelsberg 100-m telescope to monitor the radio spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) under scrutiny in astroparticle physics, namely TeV blazars and candidate neutrino-associated AGN. The large Effelsberg dish can yield superior radio data over other programs for very-high-energy (VHE) emitting blazars, which are often faint radio sources. We perform high-frequency observations every 2-4 weeks at multiple frequencies up to 44 GHz. We aim to characterize the radio variability of very-high energy emitting AGN jets and trace dynamical processes in the pc-scale jets of blazars related to high-energy flares or neutrino detections. Student thesis topics are offered in the context of improved calibration and data-handling schemes as well as studies of the variability properties of TELAMON sources, e.g., in the context of contemporary multiwavelength and neutrino observations.
More information:
TELAMON program website: https://telamon.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de
Recent Publications:
- Eppel et al. 2024, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.06296.pdf
- Kadler et al. 2021, https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=15105
- Heßdörfer et al. 2023, https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=16388
Previous student theses based on TELAMON data can be accessed at https://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/astro/archiv/abschlussarbeiten/ such as:
- J. Heßdörfer, 2022, MSc thesis
- F. Eppel, 2021, MSc thesis
- J. Heßdörfer, 2021, BSc thesis
Contact persons:
Prof. Dr. Matthias Kadler: matthias.kadler@uni-wuerzburg.de
