{
  "id": "1908.11836",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2019-08-30T16:54:32.000Z",
  "updated": "2019-08-30T16:54:32.000Z",
  "title": "VERITAS Observations of 1ES 1218+304 during the 2019 VHE High State",
  "authors": [
    "Stephan O'Brien"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference",
  "journal": "2019ICRC...36..755B",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "1ES 1218+304 is a moderate-redshift (z = 0.182) high-frequency-peaked BL Lac object (HBL). Detected by both the MAGIC and VERITAS gamma-ray observatories, 1ES 1218+304 is frequently monitored by VERITAS as part of its long-term blazar monitoring program. On the 3rd of January 2019, during a regularly scheduled blazar snapshot, VERITAS observed 1ES 1218+304 to have an elevated VHE flux state which continued through January 5 (ATEL #12360). In addition to VERITAS observations, MAGIC also detected elevated VHE emission (ATEL #12354) and Swift-BAT/XRT and Tuorla observations, in X-ray and optical respectively, showed increased multiwavelength activity at the time of the VERITAS observations. In this work, VERITAS observations of 1ES 1218+304 taken as part of a target of opportunity campaign during this elevated state, are presented.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2019-08-30T16:54:32.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "veritas observations",
      "vhe high state",
      "veritas gamma-ray observatories",
      "long-term blazar monitoring program",
      "elevated vhe flux state"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper",
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}