The Fermi/LAT Collaboration is organizing a multiwavelength campaign to monitor the quasar PMN J0948+0022, already detected at gamma-rays by LAT (Bright Source List; Bright AGN List; plus a dedicated LAT paper accepted for the publication on ApJ - see preprint).
The period will last 3 months, starting at the end of March, with the beginning of Swift observations. The campaign will end on 5 July 2009.
Present coverage:
- Gamma-rays: Fermi/LAT (Luigi F.) OK
- Hard X-rays: Swift/BAT (Luigi F.) OK
- X-rays: Swift/XRT (Luigi F.) OK
- NIR/Optical/UV:
- Swift/UVOT (VBU/UVW1-UVM2-UVW2; Roming, Stark, Luigi F.) OK
- ATOM (BVRI, Wagner) Waiting....
- INAOEP, Mexico (NIR, Carrasco, Recillas, Carraminana) Received
- WIRO (J, K - Jay Norris) Received
- Radio:
- OVRO 15 GHz (daily monitoring, Readhead et al.) Waiting....
- Effelsberg (cm/mm, Fuhrmann, Angelakis et al.) Waiting... - Some preview
- RATAN-600 (1-22 GHz, Kovalev) Waiting....
- MOJAVE (Lister) Waiting....
- e-VLBI (Giroletti) Waiting... - Some preview
- Metsahovi (37 GHz, Lahteenmaki et al.) Waiting....
Swift schedule:
- 1st: 26 March 2009
- 2nd: 15 April 2009
- 3rd: 5 May 2009
- 4th: 10 May 2009
- 5th:15 May 2009
- 6th: 25 May 2009
- 7th: 4 June 2009
- 8th:14 June 2009
- 9th: 23 June 2009
It appears that we can benefit of some more snapshots:
- 10th: 24 June 2009
- 11th: 3 July 2009
- 12th: 4 July 2009
Contact: Luigi Foschini (luigi.foschini@brera.inaf.it)
Data format and deadline to participate to the paper in preparation:
Data format:
- Time: MJD
- Frequency: Hz
- Energy: eV or multiples (keV, MeV, GeV)
- Fluxes (nuFnu): erg/cm2/s (or Jy*Hz, if easier)
- Fluxes should be already corrected and dereddened (ground based observatories should correct also for the extinction due to the airmass). Use as reference AV=0.277 and the extinction laws of Cardelli et al. (1989).
- Include also the observed magnitudes (for NIR/optical/UV data).
- Inclued also some short text explaining the data analysis performed.
- Include also the list of people (and their affiliations) to be included in the authors list.
Deadline to send data: 31 July 2009