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Title:
Observations of Blazar S5 0716+714 With Ground Based Telescopes and the Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope
Authors:
Adkins, Jeffery; Lacy, M.; Morton, A.; Travagli, T.; Mulaveesala, M.; Santiago, J.; Rapp, S.; Stefaniak, L.
Affiliation:
AA(Deer Valley High School), AB(Spitzer Science Center), AC(Deer Valley High School), AD(Deer Valley High School), AE(Deer Valley High School), AF(Deer Valley High School), AG(Linwood Holton Governor's School), AH(Allentown High School)
Publication:
2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #08.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.904
Publication Date:
12/2006
Origin:
AAS
Bibliographic Code:
2006AAS...209.0806A

Abstract

The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) to be launched in 2007 has a proposed observing list that includes AGNs and Polars bright enough to be observed optically by amateurs and students. This observing list is maintained by the Global Telescope Network (GTN). One of our targets, S5 0716+714, was observed with the Spitzer Space Telescope MIPS and IRAC instruments and also using ground based telescopes. Observations were made in seven infrared bands with Spitzer. Additional observations made from the ground by students, amateur astronomers, and college observatories in R,V, and I were nearly simultaneous with the Spitzer observations. This data were used to construct light curves over the course of the observation and the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) of the target using all the sources. These data were compared to models of the dust emission from the torus, synchrotron emission from the radio core, and thermal emission from the accretion disk to determine the relative importance of the different emission mechanisms in this object as a function of wavelength. Results were compared to observations of 4C 29.45 made last year.

This research was supported by the Spitzer Science Center, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, and the California Department of Education's Specialized Secondary Program.

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