
doi: 10.1063/1.4772307
The detection of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) in the Very High Energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) range is challenging, mainly because of their steep soft spectra. Often neither the emission nor the variability features of recently discovered VHE-FSRQs can be explained with the models developed so far for BL Lacs. Here we present the latest MAGIC results for all the three FSRQs known to be VHE emitters. We start with the 2010 discovery of PKS 1222+21 (z = 0.432), whose fast variability challenges simple one-zone emission models, requiring a more complicated scenario. Second, we present the latest results on 3C 279, the most distant AGN (z = 0.536) and first FSRQ detected in very high energies. It was observed in 2011, first during a monitoring campaign and later observations were triggered by a flare detected with Fermi-LAT. Finally, we report the 2012 detection of PKS 1510-089 (z = 0.36). This summary of VHE observations is the first step for a forthcoming study of multiwavelength spectral properties of these sources aimed at identifying the physical processes responsible for their emission and at explaining their observed variability.
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