RE: [ALL] Multiwavelength Campaign for blazar 3C454.3

["Virmani, Nick" <Nick.Virmani@ATK.COM>]

Hi all,
My e-mail addresses changed to Nick.virmani@ATK.com.
Nick
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Thompson [mailto:David.J.Thompson@nasa.gov] 
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:33 AM
To: Gamma-Ray Multiwavelength
Cc: Tom Balonek; Lynn Cominsky
Subject: [ALL] Multiwavelength Campaign for blazar 3C454.3

Multiwavelength Colleagues,

The GLAST Large Area Telescope AGN science group is starting a
multiwavelength campaign for blazar 3C454.3 (2251+158), effective
immediately and continuing through the middle of August.  This Ad-Hoc
Intensive Campaign (AIC) is prompted by brightening in the radio,
optical and X-ray.  Swift Target of Opportunity observations are
planned. A Spitzer observation is scheduled.

The campaign managers are: Matthias Kadler,
<mailto:mkadler@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>mkadler@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov<ma
ilto:mkadler@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>
[]
 , and Ann Wehrle,
<mailto:awehrle_ssi@earthlink.net>awehrle_ssi@earthlink.net<mailto:awehr
le_ssi@earthlink.net>
[]

Please contact them if you have telescope time and are interested in
joining this campaign.  For this campaign, the policy on data sharing
will be: if you observe and send data that can be used, you are a
co-author of a resulting multiwavelength publication unless you just
want an acknowledgment.  Anyone who contributes data keeps the right to
publish those data separately.

Information about this source and this campaign can be found at
https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/GLAMCOG/July%2C+2007%2C+Mul
tiwavelength+Campaign+on+3C454.3
The data submission format and preliminary results will be available
through this Web site, also.

Although there will be no GLAST gamma-ray data (GLAST is still in
testing in Arizona), the opportunity for good multiwavelength coverage
of this source right now is excellent at other wavelengths.  In addition
to the intrinsic scientific interest, this campaign can be used to
establish planning and coordination routines for the upcoming years of
multiwavelength blazar observations with GLAST.

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