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most citedThe Black Hole Explorer: Motivation and Vision

76 citations · 97 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM2026

The SHARPEx space-to-space VLBI experiment

Freek Roelofs, Christiaan Brinkerink, Albert Catalan Artigas +16

Space is the next frontier for ultra-high resolution imaging of astrophysical sources with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). The limited size of the Earth and atmospheric a…

astro-ph.HE2026

RadioAstron space-VLBI imaging of the jet in M87: II. The parsec-scale structure at 4.8 GHz

Evgeniya V. Kravchenko, Tuomas Savolainen, Alexey S. Nikonov +9

We present RadioAstron observations of the M87 jet obtained on 2014 February 4-5 at 4.8 GHz ( cm). The correlated signals between the 10-m space antenna and ground-based rad…

astro-ph.HE2026

Search for refractive substructure in active galactic nuclei using ground-based VLBI observations

Tatiana A. Koryukova, Alexander V. Plavin, Alexander B. Pushkarev +1

We present the results of the first systematic search for refractive scattering substructure in active galactic nuclei (AGN) using ground-based very long baseline interferometry (V…

astro-ph.HE2025

Detection of Compton scattering in the jet of 3C 84

Ioannis Liodakis, Sudip Chakraborty, Frédéric Marin +77

3C 84 is the brightest cluster galaxy in the Perseus Cluster. It is among the closest radio-loud active galaxies and among the very few that can be detected from low frequency radi…

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.GA2022

Tracing the hot spot motion using the next generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT)

Razieh Emami, Paul Tiede, Sheperd S. Doeleman +19

We propose to trace the dynamical motion of a shearing hot spot near the SgrA* source through a dynamical image reconstruction algorithm, StarWarps. Such a hot spot may form as the…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 16 cited

How Spatially Resolved Polarimetry Informs Black Hole Accretion Flow Models

Angelo Ricarte, Michael D. Johnson, Yuri Y. Kovalev +2

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has successfully produced images of two supermassive black holes, enabling novel tests of black holes and their accretion flows on h…

astro-ph.HE2021

Probing the innermost regions of AGN jets and their magnetic fields with RadioAstron. V. Space and ground millimeter-VLBI imaging of OJ 287

Jose L. Gómez, Efthalia Traianou, Thomas P. Krichbaum +27

We present the first polarimetric space VLBI observations of OJ 287, observed with RadioAstron at 22 GHz during a perigee session on 2014 April 4 and five near-in-time snapshots, t…