The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning / McGill University
Sgr A as Particle Accelerator - What Drives the Black Hole's Variable IR and X-ray Emission — Following the JWST ERS and Cycle 2 GO Announcement of Opportunity published on July 6, 2023, the CSA is providing funding via a Grant Agreement to the university to conduct their research using the JWST data. 

This project will study accretion onto the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, Sagittarius A*, using MIRI MRS IFU time-series spectral monitoring of Sgr A* and its surrounding region. Along with simultaneous Chandra observations, this data will be used to characterize the black hole’s MIR and X-ray emission in different flux density states, determine the nature of the emission, and constrain models of the accretion and radiation processes.