• Observing, Science

    April 19th, 2010

    By Kevin

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    Hi all,

    Just a quick note – our observations of IC 2497 and the Voorwerp have been scheduled for today and are taking place now. Since we’re observing in the X-rays, our “quick snapshot” to see what is going on actually takes almost a whole day. XMM-Newton’s eye isn’t very sharp, so we won’t get a pretty picture. What we will get however is a really great spectrum of the X-ray emission of the black hole in IC 2497 (if it’s munching on stars and gas) and perhaps also the hot gas in the Voorwerp.

    We won’t get the data right away though. First, the folks at the European Space Agency (esa) who are controlling XMM need to check out whether the data is OK and do some basic processing on it. Only then can they send it to us to have a look and that may take a few weeks.

    Stay tuned!

    Kevin

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  • 1 Comment

    Take a look at some of the responses we have had to this article.

    1. Joseph K. H. Cheng
      Apr 20th

      Great news, Kevin. Thank you for reporting. All Zooites are eagerly looking forward to seeing the results in due course.

      JKHC.

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