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Prospects for submillimeter VLBI of black hole photon rings with a stratospheric balloon-borne telescope
Mayukh Bagchi, Dominic W. Pesce, Felix M. Thiel +2
Submillimeter very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) achieves higher angular resolution and probes more optically thin emission near supermassive black holes, with less interstel…
Studying the Near-horizon Jet of M87 using Millimeter Balloon-borne VLBI stations
Felix M. Thiel, Dominic W. Pesce, Mayukh Bagchi +2
In this paper we present synthetic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations of M87 between a near-future configuration of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and one or…
The Balloon-borne VLBI Experiment (BVEX) Radio Telescope and Position Tracking System
Felix M. Thiel, Mayukh Bagchi, Laura M. Fissel +17
Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy that vastly increases the diffraction limited angular resolution of radio observations by correlating sim…
An RFSoC-based Backend and Timing System for the Balloon-borne Very Long Baseline Interferometry Experiment
Mayukh Bagchi, Felix M. Thiel, Laura M. Fissel +13
We present the design and performance characterization of the digital backend and precision-timing system for the Balloon-borne Very Long Baseline Interferometry Experiment (BVEX),…
Dynamics and geometry of the inner sub-parsec-scale jet in 3C 279 observed with the Event Horizon Telescope
Hendrik Mueller, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Ai-Ling Zeng +275
The 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations resolve the innermost jet region of the blazar 3C279 with unprecedented detail. The reconstructed images consistently reveal a compact…
Broadband multiwavelength properties of the archetypal blazar 3C 279 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope campaign
G. Principe, J. C. Algaba, E. Aviano +529
The archetypal blazar 3C 279 hosts a prominent relativistic jet and exhibits strong broadband variability across the electromagnetic spectrum. In April 2017, the Event Horizon Tele…
Full-polarization millimeter wavelength variability of Sagittarius A* during the 2018 EHT campaign
Ezequiel Albentosa-Ruiz, Jasmin E. Washington, Nicola Marchili +272
Sagittarius A* (Srg A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, provides a unique laboratory to study accretion dynamics and plasma processes near the event ho…
Locating the missing large-scale emission in the jet of M87* with short EHT baselines
Boris Georgiev, Paul Tiede, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg +280
In Very-Long Baseline Interferometric arrays, nearly co-located stations probe the largest scales and typically cannot resolve the observed source. In the absence of large-scale st…
Ring Asymmetry and Spin in M87*
Vadim Bernshteyn, Nicholas S. Conroy, Michi Bauböck +263
Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) images of the supermassive black hole M87* depict an asymmetric ring of emission. General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) models of M87* and…
Probing jet base emission of M87* with the 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations
Saurabh, Hendrik Müller, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg +282
We investigate the presence and spatial characteristics of the jet base emission in M87* at 230 GHz, enabled by the enhanced uv coverage in the 2021 Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) o…
Hierarchical Interferometric Bayesian Imaging
Paul Tiede, William Moses, Valentin Churavy +4
Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) achieves the highest angular resolution in astronomy. VLBI measures corrupted Fourier components, known as visibilities. Reconstructing on-…
Modeling atmospheric phase corruptions in high-frequency VLBI using Gaussian processes
Uri Rolls, Dominic W. Pesce, Paul Tiede +3
Using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations at (sub)millimeter wavelengths, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) currently achieves the finest angular resolution of an…
Origin of the ring ellipticity in the black hole images of M87*
Rohan Dahale, Ilje Cho, Kotaro Moriyama +273
We investigate the origin of the elliptical ring structure observed in the images of the supermassive black hole M87*, aiming to disentangle contributions from gravitational, astro…
First polarization study of the M87 jet and active galactic nuclei at submillimeter wavelengths with ALMA
Ciriaco Goddi, Douglas F. Carlos
We present full-polarization observations at mm (345 GHz) conducted with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) toward Messier 87 (M87) and seven other r…
Parameter Inference of Black Hole Images using Deep Learning in Visibility Space
Franc O, Pavlos Protopapas, Dominic W. Pesce +5
Using very long baseline interferometry, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has resolved the shadows of two supermassive black holes. Model comparison is traditionally…
First frequency phase transfer from the 3 mm to the 1 mm band on an Earth-sized baseline
Sara Issaoun, Dominic W. Pesce, María J. Rioja +33
Frequency Phase Transfer (FPT) is a technique designed to increase coherence and sensitivity in radio interferometry by making use of the non-dispersive nature of the troposphere t…
Enhanced imaging of M87*: Simulations with the EHT and extended-KVN
Ilje Cho, Jongho Park, Do-Young Byun +16
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has successfully revealed the shadow of the supermassive black hole, M87*, with an unprecedented angular resolution of approximately 20 uas at 230…
The putative center in NGC 1052
Anne-Kathrin Baczko, Matthias Kadler, Eduardo Ros +284
Many active galaxies harbor powerful relativistic jets, however, the detailed mechanisms of their formation and acceleration remain poorly understood. To investigate the area of je…
A multi-frequency study of sub-parsec jets with the Event Horizon Telescope
Jan Röder, Maciek Wielgus, Andrei P. Lobanov +287
The 2017 observing campaign of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) delivered the first very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) images at the observing frequency of 230 GHz, leading…
Demographics of black holes at 100 R scales: accretion flows, jets, and shadows
Dhanya G. Nair, Neil M. Nagar, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan +87
Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the gravitationally lensed rings around the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in Messier 87 (M87) and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) have now been…
First Very Long Baseline Interferometry Detections at 870μm
Alexander W. Raymond, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Keiichi Asada +276
The first very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) detections at 870m wavelength (345GHz frequency) are reported, achieving the highest diffraction-limited angular resolutio…
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…
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…
High Data Rate Laser Communications for the Black Hole Explorer
Jade Wang, Bryan Bilyeu, Don Boroson +14
The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a mission concept that can dramatically improve state-of-the-art astronomical very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) imaging resolution by exten…