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most citedFirst Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way

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astro-ph2008★ 5 cited

Coordinated mm/sub-mm observations of Sagittarius A* in May 2007

D. Kunneriath, A. Eckart, S. Vogel +26

At the center of the Milky Way, with a distance of ~8 kpc, the compact source Sagittarius A* (SgrA*) can be associated with a super massive black hole of ~4x10^6 solar masses. SgrA…

astro-ph2008★ 11 cited

Coordinated multi-wavelength observations of Sgr A*

A. Eckart, R. Schoedel, F. K. Baganoff +26

We report on recent near-infrared (NIR) and X-ray observations of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the electromagnetic manifestation of the ~4x10^6 solar masses super-massive black hole (S…

astro-ph2008★ 15 cited

An evolving hot spot orbiting around Sgr A*

M. Zamaninasab, A. Eckart, L. Meyer +9

Here we report on recent near-infrared observations of the Sgr A* counterpart associated with the super-massive ~ 4x10^6 M_sun black hole at the Galactic Center. We find that the M…

astro-ph2008★ 66 cited

A 600 minute near-infrared lightcurve of Sagittarius A*

L. Meyer, T. Do, A. Ghez +5

We present the longest, by a factor of two, near-infrared lightcurve from Sgr A* - the supermassive black hole in the Galactic center. Achieved by combining Keck and VLT data from…

astro-ph2008★ 2 cited

High-frequency VLBI observations of SgrA* during a multi-frequency campaign in May 2007

R. -S. Lu, T. P. Krichbaum, A. Eckart +5

In May 2007 the compact radio source Sgr A* was observed in a global multi-frequency monitoring campaign, from radio to X-ray bands. Here we present and discuss first and prelimina…