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Description
cores, provides valuable insights into supermassive black holes, galaxy evolution, and cosmic environments. The Africa Millimetre Telescope (AMT) that will be constructed in the Khomas Highlands in Namibia will be designed to add to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) network. With the AMT, the EHT will be able to produce colour movies of black holes, allowing us to better determine their properties, including their spin. The AMT is poised to become a significant asset in millimetre-wave astronomy in Africa. Beyond observations with the EHT, the AMT will have a single-dish science programme focused on transients, including monitoring of gamma-ray blazars. This study will be using flux density estimates from Lepto-hadronic multi-messenger models of 324 gamma-ray blazars. The source catalogue will be used to analyze the optimized AMT observational circumstances, create optimal observation times based on source positions, and establish observation periods for data acquisition. This study aims to contribute to the performance of the upcoming AMT by optimising the use of telescope time, minimising the impact of atmospheric conditions to facilitate long-term monitoring of gamma-ray blazars at mm-wavelength.
Keywords: Radio galaxies, flux density, observation period, AMT
