The flare activity of Sagittarius A* New coordinated mm to X-ray observations

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 450, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 535-555

  Eckart, A ^a   Baganoff, F K ^b   Schodel R ^a   Morris, M ^c   Genzel, R ^d,e   Bower, G C ^e   Marrone, D ^f   Moran, J M ^f   Viehmann, T ^a   Bautz, M W ^b   Brandt, W N ^g   Garmire, G P ^g   Ott, T ^d   Trippe, S ^d   Ricker, G R ^b   Straubmeier, C ^a   Roberts, D A ^h   Yusef Zadeh, F ^h   Zhao, J H ^f   Rao, R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxy: Center; Galaxy: Nucleus; Infrared: General; X rays: General

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; SYNCHROTRONS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; GALAXY: NUCLEUS; SUBMILLIMETER PHOTONS; SYNCHROTRON SELF-COMPTON (SSC); X-RAYS: GENERAL;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33646231511     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20054418     Document Type: Article

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