TANAMI
TANAMI (Tracking Active Galactic Nuclei with Austral Milliarcsecond
Interferometry) is a
multiwavelength program to monitor relativistic jets in
active galactic nuclei (AGN) of the
Southern Sky.
TANAMI consists of 1) a VLBI core program targeting the parsec-scale structures
of blazars, radio galaxies and other types of AGN, 2) complementary
radio spectral and light-curve monitoring programs with ATCA and
the Ceduna telescope, and 3) higher-energy multiwavelength observations
with REM, Swift,
XMM-Newton,
Suzaku,
INTEGRAL,
Fermi/LAT and other telescopes.
Currently,
TANAMI is monitoring about 135 jets at different cadences based on their known
variability timescale. Though a significant fraction of these were
originally not known to be gamma-ray sources, the vast majority have now been
detected by Fermi
in the gamma-ray band.
