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most citedThe Black Hole Explorer: Motivation and Vision

76 citations · 82 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

First results from PADRE/MeDDEA: X-rays from a flare and its CME

Muriel Zoë Stiefel, Säm Krucker, Olivier Limousin +22

The MeDDEA hard X-ray spectrometer onboard NASAs PADRE CubeSat operates four flight-spare detectors from the Solar Orbiter/STIX instrument. This paper aims to evaluate the accuracy…

astro-ph.IM2024

The Black Hole Explorer: Instrument System Overview

Daniel P. Marrone, Janice Houston, Kazunori Akiyama +14

The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a space very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) mission concept that is currently under development. BHEX will study supermassive black holes at…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 76 cited

The Black Hole Explorer: Motivation and Vision

Michael D. Johnson, Kazunori Akiyama, Rebecca Baturin +65

We present the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX), a mission that will produce the sharpest images in the history of astronomy by extending submillimeter Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

The Black Hole Explorer: Operating a Hybrid Observatory

Sara Issaoun, Kim Alonso, Kazunori Akiyama +16

We present a baseline science operations plan for the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX), a space mission concept aiming to confirm the existence of the predicted sharp ``photon ring" resu…

astro-ph.EP2024

Analytic relations assessing the impact of precursor knowledge and key mission parameters on direct imaging survey yield

Peter Plavchan, John E. Berberian, Stephen R Kane +3

The Habitable Worlds Observatory will attempt to image Earth-sized planets in Habitable Zone orbits around nearby Sun-like stars. In this work we explore approximate analytic yield…

astro-ph.IM2021

Final Report for SAG 22: A Target Star Archive for Exoplanet Science

Natalie R. Hinkel, Joshua Pepper, Christopher C. Stark +33

Present and upcoming NASA missions will be intensively observing a selected, partially overlapping set of stars for exoplanet studies. Key physical and chemical information about t…