Planned Intensive MWL Campaign on 3C279

Period:  January 19th to March 17th in 2009

  The Fermi/LAT team is organizing a multi-wavelength campaign on the blazar (FSRQ) 3C279 (z=0.536) starting at the end of January and finishing at the middle of March, including various satellites (IR to gamma-ray) and ground-based Chrenkov telescopes for VHE gamma-ray.

We stronglly encourage any multi-wavelength observations from radio to TeV to obtain the broad band SED throughout the period.

 Observation Schedule

X-ray observations:

Suzaku - 200 ksec deep observation

• 2009-01-19 23:19 - 2009-01-22 22:32
• 2009-01-23 21:00 - 2009-01-25 03:00

RXTE - monitring observaition

• ~2ks per obs  every other day since 26 December 2008 (thourgh March) [observation schedule (weekly)]

XMM

• 2009-01-21 16:48:01 - 2009.01.22. 00:38:01  (~28.2 ksec)

INTEGRAL

• 2009-01-21 20:34:11 - 2009-01-21 21:27:31 (3.2 ksec)
• 2009-01-21 21:56:02 - 2009-01-22 12:40:59 (51.2 ksec)
• 2009-01-22 13:30:00 - 2009-01-22 20:51:14 (25.6 ksec)
• 2009-01-22 21:58:00 - 2009-01-23 04:23:27 (22.4 ksec)
• 2009-01-26 14:14:32 - 2009-01-27 06:48:57 (57.6 ksec)

Optical band:

• current optical status : recent 30 days (by KVA [La Palma] and the Tuorla telescope [Finland] under "the Tuorla Blazar monitoring program").

Infra-red band:

Spitzter

• ~ 1 hour observation each day
  • MIPS: Feburay 15-20
  • IRS :   March 3-4

Radio band:

• Observations at the 32m Noto radio telescope (Italy) underway since January 20, roughly every 4 days until mid-February. Data are taken at 8 and 22 GHz.

LAT news

• Fermi/LAT Automated Science Processing public data: HEASARC Browse

• ATEL (#1864)

internal page(password protected)

Source Informaion

• (RA, Dec: J2000) = (12h56m11.1s -05d47m22s), z=0.53620
• Multi-wavelength SED
  • SED-1, from Boettcher et al. (2007), ApJ, 670, 968.
  • SED-2, from Albert et al.(MAGIC collaboration) (2008), Science, 320, 1752

Contact info:

Greg Madejski <madejski"at"slac.stanford.edu>