Speaker
Dr
Juan Madrid
Description
The radio galaxy M87 has been experiencing repeated flaring and extreme variability during the last two decades triggering a worldwide effort to understand the nature of the flaring and
the very high energy emission emanating from this giant elliptical galaxy. After the detection of M87 as a VHE source, HESS, VERITAS, and MAGIC established coordinated monitoring campaigns and recorded strong flux variability. M87 has also been detected by the Fermi LAT at MeV/GeV energies, with an average energy >100 MeV over 10 months of all-sky survey data. Possible sites for the VHE emitting region will be discussed.
