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30 August 2016
Support Spitzer & Chandra Monitoring of Sgr A* in July 2017
Steven Willner Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
After our successful campaigns in 2016, the Spitzer Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have allocated time in July 2017 for simultaneous monitoring of Sgr A*, the variable source at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The plan is to have two campaigns lasting 24 hours each.
We invite others studying the variability of Sgr A* to consider scheduling observations during the Spitzer/Chandra monitoring in order to enhance the value of all data sets. See Spitzer/IRAC and Chandra Observations of Sgr A* for further details.