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most citedThe Black Hole Explorer: Motivation and Vision

76 citations · 90 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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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★ 1 cited

Toward Optimisation of a Sub-Terahertz Spaceborne VLBI Mission

Ben Hudson, Leonid I. Gurvits, Daniel Palumbo +2

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) provides the finest angular resolution of all astronomical observation techniques. However, observations with Earth-based instruments are a…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

A High-resolution Far-infrared Survey to Probe Black Hole-Galaxy Co-evolution

Matteo Bonato, David Leisawitz, Gianfranco De Zotti +10

Far-infrared (FIR) surveys are critical to probing the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies, since of order half the light from accreting black holes and active star formation…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Applied-Field Magnetoplasmadynamic Thrusters for Deep Space Exploration

Matthew Han, Hannah Rana

Recent advancements in the development of Applied-Field Magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters (AF-MPDTs) present themselves to be an increasingly promising propulsion technology for deep…

astro-ph.IM2024

SQUIDs for detection of potential dark matter candidates

Siddarth Sivakumar, Manan Agarwal, Hannah Rana

Superconducting QUantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) are extremely sensitive magnetic flux sensors which render them useful in a wide array of instrumentation. SQUIDs are often pa…

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★ 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…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

Receivers for the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) Mission

C. Edward Tong, Kazunori Akiyama, Paul Grimes +6

In this paper, we introduce the receiver architecture for the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) Mission, designed to reveal the photon ring of black holes. The primary instrument is a dua…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

The Japanese Vision for the Black Hole Explorer Mission

Kazunori Akiyama, Kotaro Niinuma, Kazuhiro Hada +43

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