Subject: GCNEWS - Galactic Center Newsletter 

To the ESO/CTIO GC Workshop participants


Dear Colleagues,

As many of you know, during lunch on the last day of the recent
ESO/CTIO Galactic Center conference in La Serena, several of us
realized that there was a need for some sort of way to regularly
exchange information on the most recent Galatic center research.  So,
we agreed to take on the project of producing a bimonthly newsletter
and a weekly email edition to provide a conduit for information on
papers being submitted or accepted for publication, out to the
Galactic Center community.  Thus, we are pleased to announce the start
of GCNEWS.  We have spent the past month working out the bugs and are
ready to make our first

------------------CALL FOR  ABSTRACTS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS----------------- 


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                              G C N E W S

            - The Newsletter for Galactic Center Research -

gcnews@astro.umd.edu                    http://www.astro.umd.edu/~gcnews
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                                                          April 17, 1996

1.) Submission
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We are asking you to send us your Abstracts of upcoming papers which
are related to the Galactic Center. Submission is simple. Just send
your Paper per email to

                          gcnews@astro.umd.edu

and we will do the rest. Right now, we can process any Tex, Latex or
ASCII Text file directly. If you want to save us some work please check
the more detailed instruction for abstract/paper submission on our web-page

          http://www.astro.umd.edu/~gcnew/submission.html


-------------Deadline for abstracts for GCNEWS Vol. 1----------------
------------------------Friday, May 3rd------------------------------
(but of course you can submit for the next issue at any time thereafter)



2.) Subscription
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This is the only time we will be using the list of email addresses
from the ESO conference to make this mailing.  If you would like to
receive our newsletter, please 

EITHER: 

a) Go to our web site 

         http://www.astro.umd.edu/~gcnews/subscription.html
   or
         http://www.astro.umd.edu/~gcnews/subscription-form.html

   and fill out the Web-form to subscribe,

                           - OR -

b) Send the subscription form we will send to you in a separate mail back
   to --- gcnews@astro.umd.edu --- with the keyword "subscribe"
   or "Re: subscribe" in the subject line (just use the reply or
   forward command of your mail program).

                           - OR -

c) If all that is too complicated for one reason or another: send us
   your name and address and we will add you manually.


After a little while you will receive a confirmation of your
subscription.

Also, please tell any and all of your collegues with research interests
in the Galactic center about our newsletter so they can subscribe if
they desire. 

3.) Different Formats for the Newsletter
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We have set up three separate ways for the community to obtain the 
abstracts. 

a) Web-page: Just go to http://www.astro.umd.edu/~gcnews and browse.

b) "Newsflash": Once or twice a week we will send an email message 
containing abstracts submitted that week to the list of
suscribers who request this service.

c) "GCNEWS": Every two months (more frequently if it becomes
necessary), a more formal newsletter either by regular mail or in a
postscript format (the preferred/less expensive method) will be sent
to all subscribers.  The newsletter itself will contain an article
solicited by the editors on a topic of current interest, the submitted
Abstracts, and any Announcements of interest (e.g.  conference
announcements or GC related job offers).



Thank you for your help in launching this promising venture and we
hope that many of you take the few minutes it takes to subscribe to
the Newsletter and to submit an abstract. The GC community is not 
that big, so we really need the participation of a substantial 
fraction of you to make the GC Newsletter happen. Perhaps the 
deadline for the proceedings papers is a good opportunity to
do your share and send us your Abstract.

Regards, 

Angela Cotera & Heino Falcke


P.S.: We are grateful for the dozen or so volunteers who helped
us to test the whole procedure in the past two weeks, submitted
abstracts and encouraged us. Thank You! (BTW, you don't have to 
resubscribe.)


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Angela Cotera                                    Heino Falcke
(cotera@ipac.caltech.edu)                        (hfalcke@astro.umd.edu)
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 For Abstract submission please send the (La)Tex file of your paper to
                      **  gcnews@astro.umd.edu  **
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