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20232026
most citedThe Black Hole Explorer: Motivation and Vision

76 citations · 102 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Deep Learning for Astrophysics: An Open Textbook from the NASA Cosmic Origins AI/ML Science and Technology Interest Group

Yuan-Sen Ting, Digvijay Wadekar, Phill Cargile +21

Recent community assessments identify education as a principal barrier to adopting modern machine learning in astronomy. We present Deep Learning for Astrophysics, a freely availab…

astro-ph.GA2025

A High Resolution Search for Dual AGN Candidates in Mergers: A Pre-Selection Strategy using Keck AO

Camilo Vazquez, S. Satyapal, G. Canalizo +20

Accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galaxy mergers with separations 1 kpc are crucial to our understanding of SMBH growth, galaxy evolution, and SMBH binary evolution…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 6 cited

Ultra-low noise laser and optical frequency comb-based timing system for the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) mission

Hannah Tomio, Guangning Yang, Holly F. Leopardi +8

In this effort, we demonstrate the performance of a highly stable time reference for the proposed Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) mission, a space-based extension to the Event Horizon T…

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.GA2023★ 15 cited

The UV luminosity function at 0.6 < z < 1 from UVCANDELS

Lei Sun, Xin Wang, Harry I. Teplitz +75

UVCANDELS is a HST Cycle-26 Treasury Program awarded 164 orbits of primary ultraviolet (UV) F275W imaging and coordinated parallel optical F435W imaging in four CANDELS fields: GOO…