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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.IM2023

Absolute Flux Density Calibration of the Greenland Telescope Data for Event Horizon Telescope Observations

J. Y. Koay, K. Asada, S. Matsushita +35

Starting from the observing campaign in April 2018, the Greenland Telescope (GLT) has been added as a new station of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) array. Visibilities on baseli…

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.IM2019★ 1.1k cited

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. Array and Instrumentation

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) array that comprises millimeter- and submillimeter-wavelength telescopes separated by distances comp…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1 cited

Electronics Instrumentation for the Greenland Telescope

Derek Kubo, Chih-Chiang Han, Hiroaki Nishioka +37

The Greenland Telescope project has recently participated in an experiment to image the supermassive black hole shadow at the center of M87 using Very Long Baseline Interferometry…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 21 cited

First 230 GHz VLBI Fringes on 3C 279 using the APEX Telescope

J. Wagner, A. L. Roy, T. P. Krichbaum +52

We report about a 230 GHz very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) fringe finder observation of blazar 3C 279 with the APEX telescope in Chile, the phased submillimeter array (SMA)…