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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.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…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 1 cited

Astro2020 APC White Paper: The Early Career Perspective on the Coming Decade, Astrophysics Career Paths, and the Decadal Survey Process

Emily Moravec, Ian Czekala, Kate Follette +53

In response to the need for the Astro2020 Decadal Survey to explicitly engage early career astronomers, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted the Ear…