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astro-ph.IM2026

Black Hole Explorer Mission Development in Japan

Kazunori Akiyama, Mareki Honma, Akihiro Doi +21

The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a next-generation space very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) mission concept that will extend existing ground-based millimeter/submillimeter V…

astro-ph.IM2025

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-…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 30 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2024

The Black Hole Explorer: Preliminary Antenna Design

T. K. Sridharan, R. Lehmensiek, D. Marrone +6

We present the basic design of a large, light weight, spaceborne antenna for the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) space Very Long Baseline Interferometry (space-VLBI) mission, achieving…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

The Black Hole Explorer Cryocooling Instrument

Hannah Rana, Kazunori Akiyama, Edgar Canavan +10

The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a space-based very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) mission aimed at precision black hole measurements, detecting the photon ring around black…

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…