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Observing proposals

2014 Approved observing proposals

PI	Band	Instrument	Title	Allocated Time	Strategy	UT observing dates
Rushton	Radio	VLA and VLBA	Simultaneous radio and X-ray monitoring of the G2 encounter with Sgr A*	2x8h	Simultaneous with XMM	April 3, 0800 - 1630 UT
Tsuboi	22 GHz	VLBI (Japanese network)	Daily Monitoring of Sgr A* at 22GHz with Japanese VLBI Network	1h/day	Daily monitoring of Sgr A* at 22GHz	up to May 2014
Wang	1.1mm	LMT/AzTEC	LMT/AzTEC Variability Study of Sgr A* during the G2 Encounter	0.5hr/day	daily+two long intraday runs simult. with Chandra	April + May 2014
Agudo	1+2+3mm	IRAM 30m	Monitoring the Encounter of a Gas Cloud with Sgr A*	weekly	flux, linear polarization and rotation measure of Sgr A*	throughout first half of 2014
Gillessen	NIR	SINFONI/VLT	Watching G2 disrupt [...]	12h	Integral field spectroscopy to follow evolution of line shape	Mar 27 - Apr 1, 2014
Gillessen	NIR	SINFONI/VLT	Watching G2 disrupt [...]	12h	Integral field spectroscopy to follow evolution of line shape	Apr 7 - Apr 10, 2014
Gillessen	NIR	SINFONI/VLT	Watching G2 disrupt [...]	12h	Integral field spectroscopy to follow evolution of line shape	Apr 21 - Apr 24, 2014
Gillessen	NIR	SINFONI/VLT	Watching G2 disrupt [...]	8h	Integral field spectroscopy to follow evolution of line shape	May 7 - May 9, 2014
Gillessen	NIR	SINFONI/VLT	Watching G2 disrupt [...]	33h	Integral field spectroscopy to follow evolution of line shape	Aug 27 - Sep 3, 2014
Gillessen	NIR	SINFONI/VLT	Watching G2 disrupt [...]	12h	Integral field spectroscopy to follow evolution of line shape	Sep 27 - Oct 1, 2014
Gillessen	NIR	NACO/VLT	Watching G2 disrupt [...]	8h	NIR imaging	Sep 26 - Sep 30, 2014
Eckart	NIR	SINFONI/VLT	Nature of variable SgrA* X-ray [...]	12h	simult. with XMM	Feb 27 - Mar 2, 2014
Eckart	NIR	SINFONI/VLT	Nature of variable SgrA* X-ray [...]	23h	simult. with XMM	Mar 24 - Mar 27, 2014
Nishiyama	NIR/MIR	IRCS,HiCIAO,COMICS/Subaru, NIFS/Gemini	Gas Cloud Accretion onto the SMBH Sgr A* [...]	12h	ToO: NIR spectroscopy, NIR polarimetry, or MIR imaging	Feb - Jul 2014
Ponti	X-ray	XMM	Monitoring a close encounter [...]	4 x 54ks	Two epochs per observing window	2014
Grosso	X-ray	XMM		53ks	simult. with VLT	2014-02-20 - 2014-02-28, 2014-03-08 - 2014-03-16, 2014-03-31 - 2014-04-08
Maeda	X-ray	Suzaku	Weekly Monitoring of X-ray flares from Sgr A*	180ks	Monitoring weekly (20ksec each) during Suzaku visible windows	Feb.-Apr. 2014
Degenaar	X-ray	Swift	Continuing a Swift legacy: the monitoring campaign of the Galactic Center	248ks	Daily monitoring (1ks/obs)	April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014
Haggard	X-ray	Swift	Swift Monitoring of the Encounter Between Sgr A* and the Gas Cloud G2	68ks	Monitoring weekly, then twice weekly, then daily near pericenter (1ks/obs)	April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014

2013 Approved observing proposals

PI	Band	Instrument	Title	Allocated Time	Strategy	UT observing dates
Hyman	m	VLA	Monitoring for Radio Transients in the Galactic Center with the Low-Band System	16 x 1.5h	Biweekly monitoring of Sgr A* and for other transients with 200 MHz bandwidth	September 2013 - May 2014
Takekawa	cm (S/X)	VLBI-NICT	NICT VLBI Monitoring Observations of Sgr A* at 8 GHz and 2 GHz	5h/day	Monitoring of Sgr A* at 8 GHz and 2 GHz	at least till May 2014
Ott	cm	VLA	Molecular Absorption Survey against the G2 Cloud Sgr A* Accretion Event	10h	Spectrum across multiple bands	triggered at a flux >6Jy, rms tau ~10^-3
Reid	cm	VLBA	Astrometry of Sgr A*: Preparing for the Infall of a Gas Cloud	2 x 2 x 6h	Pre-encounter 22 and 43 GHz astrometry	February 2013
Rushton	cm	VLA & VLBA	Simultaneous radio and X-ray monitoring of the G2 encounter with Sgr A*	2 x 8h	Simultaneous with XMM	VLA schedule & VLBA schedule
public NRAO	radio	VLBA	Angular size measurements and astrometry of SgrA*	1 full track @ 2 bands	single, pre-encounter, baseline measurement	beginning of semester 2013A, eNews letter
public NRAO	radio	VLA	Continuum monitoring	13 x 2hrs x 8 bands	initially bimonthly, then monthly monitoring	eNews letter
Tsuboi	22 GHz	VLBI (Japanese network)	Daily Monitoring of Sgr A* at 22GHz with Japanese VLBI Network	1h/day	Daily monitoring of Sgr A* at 22GHz	up to May 2014
Akiyama	43 GHz	VERA	The multi-epoch VERA observations of the galactic center Sgr A* before and after the encounter with the Gas Cloud G2	15 x 6h	Monitoring the radio flux and size at 43 GHz every three weeks	Throughout 2013 except June and July
Akiyama	22 & 43 GHz	KaVA	Deep Imaging Observations of Sgr A* and the G2 Cloud with KVN+VERA	4 full tracks @ 2 bands	Quasi-simultaneous with EHT	2013, March 23 - 26
Akiyama	22 & 43 GHz	KaVA	Deep Imaging Observations of Sgr A* and the G2 Cloud with KVN+VERA	4 full tracks @ 2 bands	Quasi-simultaneous with GMVA	2013, May 16-21
Akiyama	22 & 43 GHz	KaVA	Deep Imaging Observations of Sgr A* and the G2 Cloud with KVN+VERA	6 x 5hrs	ToO: Imaging and Astrometry of Sgr A*
Trippe	86 GHz	GMVA (4 European stations)	Real-time Monitoring of Accretion onto a Supermassive Black Hole: Observing the 2013 Gas Infall Event at Sagittarius A*	3 x 6 h	Monitoring of closure phases, limited mapping	May 16-21
Agudo	1mm + 3mm	IRAM 30m	Monitoring the Encounter of a Gas Cloud with Sgr A*	bi-weekly	flux, linear polarization and rotation measure of Sgr A*	throughout 2013
Yusef-Zadeh	mm	VLBA	Joint VLBA/Chandra/EVLA Monitoring of the Gas Cloud G2 as it Encounters Sgr A*	6 x 7h	3mm monitoring with Chandra/VLA	May 2013
Marrone	millimeter	SMA	Polarization monitoring	5 x 7hrs	monthly monitoring of polarization and RM, Jan-May 2013 (to be reproposed for next semester)
Haggard	radio	EVLA	Joint Chandra/XMM/EVLA Monitoring of the Gas Cloud G2 as it Encounters Sgr A*	6 x 7hrs	Roughly monthly sampling near pericenter, simultaneous w/ Chandra obs	1: May 23, 03:00 - 10:00
Bower	millimeter	ALMA	The G2 Gas Cloud Encounter with Sagittarius A*: Accretion Structure on Scales of 3000 to 1 Schwarzschild Radii	10 x 1hrs x 2 bands	monthly monitoring beginning in 2013
Ott	(sub)millimeter	ALMA	Molecular Absorption Survey against the G2 Cloud Sgr A* Accretion Event	3.4h	Spectrum across multiple bands	triggered at a flux >6Jy, rms tau ~10^-3
Martin	(sub)millimeter	ALMA	Fuelling the Galactic center super massive black hole
Ho	(sub)millimeter	ALMA	Proper Motions of Gas in the Immediate Vicinity of the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole
Eckart	submm	APEX	Differential L'-band spectroscopy of the Dusty S-cluster Object (DSO/G2) approaching SgrA*	56h
Gillessen	NIR	SINFONI/VLT	Watching a gas cloud disrupt [...]	70h	Two epochs of deep integral field spectroscopy to follow evolution of line shape	VLT times
Gillessen	NIR	NACO/VLT	Watching a gas cloud disrupt [...]	20h	ToO: If SgrA* changes in 2013, get multi-band lightcurves	VLT times
Ghez	NIR	Keck/OSIRIS & NIRC2	A LGS-AO Study of our Galaxy's Central Black Hole and its Environs	18 x half-nights (~80 hours)	Deep Imaging & Spectroscopy of the central arcsec
Eckart	NIR	NACO/VLT	Differential L'-band spectroscopy of the Dusty S-cluster Object (DSO/G2) approaching SgrA*	10h		VLT times
Eckart	NIR	NACO/VLT	Nature of variable SgrA* X-ray and polarized NIR flares: Probing the accretion stream and source variability during the passage of DSO/G2	20h		VLT times
Eckart	NIR	ISAAC/VLT	Nature of variable SgrA* sub-mm and NIR flares: ISAAC probing the accretion stream and bright source variability during the passage of DSO/G2	28h		VLT times
Nishiyama	NIR/MIR	IRCS, HiCIAO, COMICS/Subaru	Gas Cloud Accretion onto the SMBH SgrA*	15h	ToO: NIR spectroscopy, NIR polarimetry, or MIR imaging
Baganoff	X-ray	Chandra	Monitoring the Tidal Disruption of a Gas Cloud Approaching Sgr A*	6 x 20ksec	Roughly monthly sampling around pericenter time	Chandra schedule
Ponti	X-ray	Chandra / HETG	X-ray monitoring of Sgr A* during outburst	280ksec	ToO: If SgrA* gets brighter than Lx = 10^36 erg/s
Haggard	X-ray	Chandra	Joint Chandra/XMM/EVLA Monitoring of the Gas Cloud G2 as it Encounters Sgr A*	6 x 50ksec	Roughly monthly sampling around pericenter time	Chandra schedule
Haggard	X-ray	XMM	Joint Chandra/XMM/EVLA Monitoring of the Gas Cloud G2 as it Encounters Sgr A*	1 x 30ksec	Single obs. near pericenter
Ponti	X-ray	XMM	Capturing a major accretion event of Sgr A*	230ks	ToO: If Sgr A* becomes brighter than 10^35 erg/s
Ponti	X-ray	XMM	Monitoring Sgr A*	100ks	Monitoring the cloud-SgrA* interaction	2x50ks
Grosso	X-ray	XMM		150ks		3x50ks
Zhang	X-ray	NuSTAR		40ks		2013-04-26 01:00 to 2013-04-26 21:30
Degenaar	X-ray	Swift	Swift/XRT monitoring observations of the Galactic Center region	82ks	Bi-weekly monitoring (1ks/obs)	April 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013
Degenaar	X-ray	Swift	Continuing a Swift legacy: the monitoring campaign of the Galactic Center	248ks	Daily monitoring (1ks/obs)	April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014
Haggard	X-ray	Swift	Swift Monitoring of the Encounter Between Sgr A* and the Gas Cloud G2	68ks	Monitoring weekly, then twice weekly, then daily near pericenter (1ks/obs)	April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014
Morris	X-ray	Suzaku	Capturing a major accretion event of Sgr A*	200ks	ToO: if Swift > 5 x 10^35 erg/s
Maeda	X-ray	Suzaku	Weekly Monitoring of X-ray flares from Sgr A*	180ks	Monitoring weekly (20ksec each) during Suzaku visible windows (Aug.-Oct. 2013, Feb.-Apr. 2014)
Sunyaev	Gamma	INTEGRAL	Forthcoming major outburst of Sgr A*? Once in a life-time chance for INTEGRAL	2000 ksec	ToO
Wilms	Gamma	INTEGRAL	Observing the Galactic Center Region with INTEGRAL	1000 ksec
Kuulkers	Gamma	INTEGRAL	Regular and frequent INTEGRAL monitoring of the Galactic Bulge region	479 ksec
Yusef-Zadeh	Gamma	Fermi	The Gamma-ray Variability of Sgr A* Induced by an Infalling Cloud	duration of flare	ToO: LAT flux >5x10^-6 ph/cm²/s or enhanced Lx
MAGIC-Collaboration	VHE	MAGIC	Monitoring of the GC at large zenith angle	60h	20 hr/yr + ToO	April - July (2013)

2013 Submitted observing proposals

PI	Band	Instrument	Title	Time Applied For	Strategy	Expected decision
HESS collaboration	Gamma	HESS	Watching the close encounter of a gas cloud with the galactic center in TeV light	60 hours + TOO	March - May 1 hour every 4 days, June - July 1 hour every 3 days, Aug - Sep. 1 hour every 2 days + TOO flux > 2.5x10^-11 cm^-2 s^-1	Jan 30 2013

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=== 2014 Approved observing proposals ===

||<rowstyle="background-color: #E0E0FF;"> PI || Band || Instrument || Title || Allocated Time || Strategy || UT observing dates ||
|| Rushton || Radio || VLA and VLBA ||  Simultaneous radio and X-ray monitoring of the G2 encounter with Sgr A* || 2x8h || Simultaneous with XMM  || April 3, 0800 - 1630 UT ||
|| Tsuboi || 22 GHz || VLBI (Japanese network) ||  Daily Monitoring of Sgr A* at 22GHz with Japanese VLBI Network || 1h/day || Daily monitoring of Sgr A* at 22GHz  || up to May 2014 ||
|| Wang || 1.1mm || LMT/AzTEC || LMT/AzTEC Variability Study of Sgr A* during the G2 Encounter || 0.5hr/day || daily+two long intraday runs simult. with Chandra|| April + May 2014 ||
|| Agudo || 1+2+3mm || IRAM 30m || Monitoring the Encounter of a Gas Cloud with Sgr A* || weekly || flux, linear polarization and rotation measure of Sgr A*|| throughout first half of 2014 ||
|| Gillessen || NIR || SINFONI/VLT || Watching G2 disrupt [...] || 12h || Integral field spectroscopy to follow evolution of line shape || Mar 27 - Apr 1, 2014 ||
|| Gillessen || NIR || SINFONI/VLT || Watching G2 disrupt [...] || 12h || Integral field spectroscopy to follow evolution of line shape || Apr 7 - Apr 10, 2014 ||
|| Gillessen || NIR || SINFONI/VLT || Watching G2 disrupt [...] || 12h || Integral field spectroscopy to follow evolution of line shape || Apr 21 - Apr 24, 2014 ||
|| Gillessen || NIR || SINFONI/VLT || Watching G2 disrupt [...] || 8h || Integral field spectroscopy to follow evolution of line shape || May 7 - May 9, 2014 ||
|| Gillessen || NIR || SINFONI/VLT || Watching G2 disrupt [...] || 33h || Integral field spectroscopy to follow evolution of line shape || Aug 27 - Sep 3, 2014 ||
|| Gillessen || NIR || SINFONI/VLT || Watching G2 disrupt [...] || 12h || Integral field spectroscopy to follow evolution of line shape || Sep 27 - Oct 1, 2014 ||
|| Gillessen || NIR || NACO/VLT || Watching G2 disrupt [...] || 8h || NIR imaging || Sep 26 - Sep 30, 2014 ||
|| Eckart || NIR || SINFONI/VLT || Nature of variable SgrA* X-ray [...] || 12h || simult. with XMM || Feb 27 - Mar 2, 2014 ||
|| Eckart || NIR || SINFONI/VLT || Nature of variable SgrA* X-ray [...] || 23h || simult. with XMM || Mar 24 - Mar 27, 2014 ||
|| Nishiyama || NIR/MIR || IRCS,HiCIAO,COMICS/Subaru, NIFS/Gemini || Gas Cloud Accretion onto the SMBH Sgr A* [...] || 12h || ToO: NIR spectroscopy, NIR polarimetry, or MIR imaging || Feb - Jul 2014 ||
|| Ponti || X-ray || XMM || Monitoring a close encounter [...] || 4 x 54ks || Two epochs per observing window || 2014 ||
|| Grosso || X-ray || XMM ||  || 53ks || simult. with VLT || 2014-02-20 - 2014-02-28, 2014-03-08 - 2014-03-16, 2014-03-31 - 2014-04-08 ||
|| Maeda|| X-ray || Suzaku || Weekly Monitoring of X-ray flares from Sgr A* || 180ks || Monitoring weekly (20ksec each) during Suzaku visible windows || Feb.-Apr. 2014 ||
|| Degenaar|| X-ray || Swift || Continuing a Swift legacy: the monitoring campaign of the Galactic Center || 248ks || Daily monitoring (1ks/obs) || April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014||
|| Haggard|| X-ray || Swift || Swift Monitoring of the Encounter Between Sgr A* and the Gas Cloud G2 || 68ks || Monitoring weekly, then twice weekly, then daily near pericenter (1ks/obs) || April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014 ||


=== 2013 Approved observing proposals ===

||<rowstyle="background-color: #E0E0FF;"> PI || Band || Instrument || Title || Allocated Time || Strategy || UT observing dates ||
|| Hyman || m || VLA || Monitoring for Radio Transients in the Galactic Center with the Low-Band System || 16 x 1.5h || Biweekly monitoring of Sgr A* and for other transients with 200 MHz bandwidth || September 2013 - May 2014 ||
|| Takekawa || cm (S/X) || VLBI-NICT || NICT VLBI Monitoring Observations of Sgr A* at 8 GHz and 2 GHz || 5h/day || Monitoring of Sgr A* at 8 GHz and 2 GHz || at least till May 2014 ||
|| Ott || cm || VLA || Molecular Absorption Survey against the G2 Cloud Sgr A* Accretion Event || 10h || Spectrum across multiple bands || triggered at a flux >6Jy, rms tau ~10^-3 ||
|| Reid || cm || VLBA || Astrometry of Sgr A*: Preparing for the Infall of a Gas Cloud || 2 x 2 x 6h || Pre-encounter 22 and 43 GHz astrometry || February 2013 ||
|| Rushton || cm || VLA & VLBA || Simultaneous radio and X-ray monitoring of the G2 encounter with Sgr A* || 2 x 8h || Simultaneous with XMM || [[ VlaSchedule | VLA schedule ]] & [[ VlbaSchedule | VLBA schedule ]] ||
||public NRAO || radio || VLBA || Angular size measurements and astrometry of SgrA* || 1 full track @ 2 bands || single, pre-encounter, baseline measurement  || beginning of semester 2013A, [[https://science.nrao.edu/enews/5.10/index.shtml#g2_encounter |eNews letter ]] ||
||public NRAO || radio || VLA || Continuum monitoring ||  13 x 2hrs x 8 bands ||  initially bimonthly, then monthly monitoring || [[ https://science.nrao.edu/enews/5.10/index.shtml#g2_encounter | eNews letter ]] ||
|| Tsuboi || 22 GHz || VLBI (Japanese network) ||  Daily Monitoring of Sgr A* at 22GHz with Japanese VLBI Network || 1h/day || Daily monitoring of Sgr A* at 22GHz  || up to May 2014 ||
|| Akiyama || 43 GHz || VERA ||  The multi-epoch VERA observations of the galactic center Sgr A* before and after the encounter with the Gas Cloud G2 || 15 x 6h || Monitoring the radio flux and size at 43 GHz every three weeks  || Throughout 2013 except June and July ||
|| Akiyama || 22 & 43 GHz || KaVA ||   Deep Imaging Observations of Sgr A* and the G2 Cloud with KVN+VERA || 4 full tracks @ 2 bands || Quasi-simultaneous with EHT  || 2013, March 23 - 26  ||
|| Akiyama || 22 & 43 GHz || KaVA ||   Deep Imaging Observations of Sgr A* and the G2 Cloud with KVN+VERA || 4 full tracks @ 2 bands || Quasi-simultaneous with GMVA  || 2013, May 16-21  ||
|| Akiyama || 22 & 43 GHz || KaVA ||   Deep Imaging Observations of Sgr A* and the G2 Cloud with KVN+VERA || 6 x 5hrs || ToO: Imaging and Astrometry of Sgr A* ||  ||
|| Trippe || 86 GHz || GMVA (4 European stations) ||  Real-time Monitoring of Accretion onto a Supermassive Black Hole: Observing the 2013 Gas Infall Event at Sagittarius A* || 3 x 6 h || Monitoring of closure phases, limited mapping || May 16-21 ||
|| Agudo || 1mm + 3mm || IRAM 30m || Monitoring the Encounter of a Gas Cloud with Sgr A* || bi-weekly || flux, linear polarization and rotation measure of Sgr A*|| throughout 2013 ||
|| Yusef-Zadeh || mm || VLBA || Joint VLBA/Chandra/EVLA  Monitoring of the Gas Cloud G2 as it Encounters Sgr A* || 6 x 7h || 3mm monitoring with Chandra/VLA|| May 2013 ||
|| Marrone || millimeter || SMA || Polarization monitoring ||  5 x 7hrs ||  monthly monitoring of polarization and RM, Jan-May 2013 (to be reproposed for next semester) ||  ||
||Haggard || radio || EVLA || Joint Chandra/XMM/EVLA Monitoring of the Gas Cloud G2 as it Encounters Sgr A* ||  6 x 7hrs || Roughly monthly sampling near pericenter, simultaneous w/ Chandra obs  || 1: May 23, 03:00 - 10:00 ||
|| Bower || millimeter || ALMA || The G2 Gas Cloud Encounter with Sagittarius A*:  Accretion Structure on Scales of 3000 to 1 Schwarzschild Radii ||  10 x 1hrs x 2 bands ||  monthly monitoring beginning in 2013 ||  ||
|| Ott || (sub)millimeter || ALMA || Molecular Absorption Survey against the G2 Cloud Sgr A* Accretion Event || 3.4h || Spectrum across multiple bands || triggered at a flux >6Jy, rms tau ~10^-3 ||
|| Martin || (sub)millimeter || ALMA || Fuelling the Galactic center super massive black hole ||  ||  ||  ||
|| Ho || (sub)millimeter || ALMA ||  	Proper Motions of Gas in the Immediate Vicinity of the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole ||  ||  ||  ||
|| Eckart || submm || APEX || Differential L'-band spectroscopy of the Dusty S-cluster Object (DSO/G2) approaching SgrA* || 56h || ||  ||
|| Gillessen || NIR || SINFONI/VLT || Watching a gas cloud disrupt [...] || 70h || Two epochs of deep integral field spectroscopy to follow evolution of line shape || [[VLTP91 |VLT times ]] ||
|| Gillessen || NIR || NACO/VLT || Watching a gas cloud disrupt [...] || 20h || ToO: If SgrA* changes in 2013, get multi-band lightcurves || [[VLTP91 |VLT times ]] ||
|| Ghez || NIR || Keck/OSIRIS & NIRC2 || A LGS-AO Study of our Galaxy's Central Black Hole and its Environs || 18 x half-nights (~80 hours) || Deep Imaging & Spectroscopy of the central arcsec || ||
|| Eckart || NIR || NACO/VLT || Differential L'-band spectroscopy of the Dusty S-cluster Object (DSO/G2) approaching SgrA* || 10h || || [[VLTP91 |VLT times ]] ||
|| Eckart || NIR || NACO/VLT || Nature of variable SgrA* X-ray and polarized NIR flares: Probing the accretion stream and source variability during the passage of DSO/G2 || 20h || || [[VLTP91 |VLT times ]] ||
|| Eckart || NIR || ISAAC/VLT || Nature of variable SgrA* sub-mm and NIR flares: ISAAC probing the accretion stream and bright source variability during the passage of DSO/G2 || 28h || || [[VLTP91 |VLT times ]] ||
|| Nishiyama || NIR/MIR || IRCS, HiCIAO, COMICS/Subaru || Gas Cloud Accretion onto the SMBH SgrA* || 15h || ToO: NIR spectroscopy, NIR polarimetry, or MIR imaging || ||
||Baganoff || X-ray || Chandra || Monitoring the Tidal Disruption of a Gas Cloud Approaching Sgr A* || 6 x 20ksec || Roughly monthly sampling around pericenter time || [[ ChandraSchedule | Chandra schedule ]] ||
||Ponti || X-ray || Chandra / HETG || X-ray monitoring of Sgr A* during outburst || 280ksec || ToO: If SgrA* gets brighter than Lx = 10^36 erg/s  || ||
||Haggard || X-ray || Chandra || Joint Chandra/XMM/EVLA Monitoring of the Gas Cloud G2 as it Encounters Sgr A* ||  6 x 50ksec || Roughly monthly sampling around pericenter time  || [[ ChandraSchedule | Chandra schedule ]] ||
||Haggard || X-ray || XMM || Joint Chandra/XMM/EVLA Monitoring of the Gas Cloud G2 as it Encounters Sgr A* ||  1 x 30ksec || Single obs. near pericenter  || ||
|| Ponti || X-ray || XMM || Capturing a major accretion event of Sgr A* || 230ks || ToO: If Sgr A* becomes brighter than 10^35 erg/s ||  ||
|| Ponti || X-ray || XMM || Monitoring Sgr A* || 100ks || Monitoring the cloud-SgrA* interaction || 2x50ks ||
|| Grosso || X-ray || XMM || || 150ks ||  || 3x50ks ||
|| Zhang || X-ray || NuSTAR || || 40ks || || 2013-04-26 01:00 to 2013-04-26 21:30 ||
|| Degenaar || X-ray || Swift || Swift/XRT monitoring observations of the Galactic Center region || 82ks || Bi-weekly monitoring (1ks/obs) || April 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013||
|| Degenaar|| X-ray || Swift || Continuing a Swift legacy: the monitoring campaign of the Galactic Center || 248ks || Daily monitoring (1ks/obs) || April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014||
|| Haggard|| X-ray || Swift || Swift Monitoring of the Encounter Between Sgr A* and the Gas Cloud G2 || 68ks || Monitoring weekly, then twice weekly, then daily near pericenter (1ks/obs) || April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014 ||
|| Morris|| X-ray || Suzaku || Capturing a major accretion event of Sgr A* || 200ks || ToO: if Swift > 5 x 10^35 erg/s ||  ||
|| Maeda|| X-ray || Suzaku || Weekly Monitoring of X-ray flares from Sgr A* || 180ks || Monitoring weekly (20ksec each) during Suzaku visible windows (Aug.-Oct. 2013,  Feb.-Apr. 2014) ||  ||
||Sunyaev || Gamma || INTEGRAL || Forthcoming major outburst of Sgr A*? Once in a life-time chance for INTEGRAL || 2000 ksec || ToO ||  ||
||Wilms || Gamma || INTEGRAL || Observing the Galactic Center Region with INTEGRAL  || 1000 ksec ||  ||  ||
||Kuulkers || Gamma || INTEGRAL || Regular and frequent INTEGRAL monitoring of the Galactic Bulge region  || 479 ksec ||  ||  ||
|| Yusef-Zadeh || Gamma || Fermi || The Gamma-ray Variability of Sgr A* Induced by an Infalling Cloud || duration of flare || ToO: LAT flux >5x10^-6^ ph/cm^2^/s or enhanced Lx ||  ||
|| MAGIC-Collaboration || VHE || MAGIC || Monitoring of the GC at large zenith angle || 60h || 20 hr/yr + ToO || April - July (2013) ||


=== 2013 Submitted observing proposals ===

||<rowstyle="background-color: #E0E0FF;"> PI || Band || Instrument || Title || Time Applied For || Strategy || Expected decision ||
||HESS collaboration ||Gamma ||HESS ||Watching the close encounter of a gas cloud with the galactic center in TeV light ||60 hours + TOO || March - May 1 hour every 4 days, June - July 1 hour every 3 days, Aug - Sep. 1 hour every 2 days + TOO flux > 2.5x10^-11^ cm^-2^ s^-1^ ||Jan 30 2013 ||

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