The possibility of detecting Sagittarius A* at 8.6 μm from sensitive imaging of the Galactic center

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 462, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Schodel R ^a   Eckart, A ^a,b   Muzic K ^a   Meyer, L ^a   Viehmann, T ^a   Bower, G C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Galaxy: center; Galaxy: nucleus

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; X RAYS;

ACCRETION; ACCRETION DISKS; GALAXY: CENTER; GALAXY: NUCLEUS; IMAGING DATA; MILKY WAY;

GALAXIES;

EID: 33846506029     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20066590     Document Type: Article

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