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most citedFirst Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way

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astro-ph.HE2023★ 1.9k cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We present the first Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A), the Galactic center source associated with a supermassive black hole. These observati…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

The Greenland Telescope: Construction, Commissioning, and Operations in Pituffik

Ming-Tang Chen, Keiichi Asada, Satoki Matsushita +51

In 2018, the Greenland Telescope (GLT) started scientific observation in Greenland. Since then, we have completed several significant improvements and added new capabilities to the…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 154 cited

A ring-like accretion structure in M87 connecting its black hole and jet

Ru-Sen Lu, Keiichi Asada, Thomas P. Krichbaum +118

The nearby radio galaxy M87 is a prime target for studying black hole accretion and jet formation^{1,2}. Event Horizon Telescope observations of M87 in 2017, at a wavelength of 1.3…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 11 cited

Wavefront sensor for millimeter/submillimeter-wave adaptive optics based on aperture-plane interferometry

Yoichi Tamura, Ryohei Kawabe, Yuhei Fukasaku +20

We present a concept of a millimeter wavefront sensor that allows real-time sensing of the surface of a ground-based millimeter/submillimeter telescope. It is becoming important fo…

astro-ph.IM2020

Current status and future plan of Osaka Prefecture University 1.85-m mm-submm telescope project

Atsushi Nishimura, Kazuki Tokuda, Ryohei Harada +25

We report the current status of the 1.85-m mm-submm telescope installed at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (altitude 1400 m) and the future plan. The scientific goal is to reveal th…

astro-ph.IM2020

Development of the new multi-beam receiver and telescope control system for NASCO

Atsushi Nishimura, Akio Ohama, Kimihiro Kimura +59

We report the current status of the NASCO (NAnten2 Super CO survey as legacy) project which aims to provide all-sky CO data cube of southern hemisphere using the NANTEN2 4-m submil…