Period:  January 19th to March 17th in 2009

  The Fermi/LAT team is organizing a multi-wavelength campaign  on the blazar (FSRQ) 3C279 starting at the end of January and finishing at the middle of March.
  We encourage observation in any energy bands from radio to TeV to cover the broad band SED.

X-ray observations

Suzaku : 200 ks deep observation

• 19 January 23:19 - 22 January 22:32
• 23 January 21:00 - 25 January 03:00

RXTE : monitring observaition

• ~2ks per obs  every other days since 26 December 2008 (thoughr March)

XMM :

• From 2009-01-21T16:48:01 (Rev. 1670)

INTEGRAL :

• 2009-01-21 20:34:11.0  (3.2ks) 
• 2009-01-21 21:56:02.0  (51.2ks) 
• 2009-01-22 13:30:00.0  (25.6ks)
• 2009-01-22 21:58:00.0  (22.4ks) 

Optical band

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

LAT news

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

• ATEL (#1864)

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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>