Cover - GCNEWS, Vol. 11, May 2000

GCNEWS

A Newsletter for Galactic Center Research
This Volume was edited by Angela Cotera, Heino Falcke & Sera Markoff
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Imaging the event horizon of Sgr A*?


Figure 1: The black hole in the Galactic Center - if it is one - is big and close enough to image its event horizon, or `shadow', with existing technology. This is argued in a paper by Falcke, Melia, & Agol (2000). The figure shows the appearance of the shadow of the black hole for Sagittarius A* against the compact radio emission. The images were calculated for the interstellar scattering and the instrumental resolution expected for upcoming sub-mm VLBI experiments (right: lambda=1.3mm, middle: lambda=0.6mm). In a second paper Agol argues that the polarization properties of Sgr A* (see article) strengthen that claim.
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Invited Article: Polarization in Sgr A* (Bower)

Table of Contents

  1. Editorial by A. Cotera & H. Falcke
  2. Invited Article: "Polarization in Sagittarius A*", by Geoffrey Bower [PS version]
  3. Abstracts of recently submitted papers
  4. Announcements
    1. Release of the INES Archive (IUE)
    2. ALMA Scientific Advisory Committee
    3. 2nd Large Incremental Data Release from 2MASS
    4. DPG School for Physics ``Galactic Black Hole 2001''
    5. Milky Way in ``Science''
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