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20072022
most citedFirst M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. The Shadow and Mass of the Central Black Hole

1.7k citations · 8.8k across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

astro-ph.IM20221.1k cited

CASA, the Common Astronomy Software Applications for Radio Astronomy

THE CASA TEAM, Ben Bean, Sanjay Bhatnagar +46

CASA, the Common Astronomy Software Applications, is the primary data processing software for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very La…

astro-ph.IM202227 cited

CASA on the fringe -- Development of VLBI processing capabilities for CASA

Ilse M. van Bemmel, Mark Kettenis, Des Small +14

New functionality to process Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data has been implemented in the CASA package. This includes two new tasks to handle fringe fitting and VLBI-s…

astro-ph.GA2021139 cited

Event Horizon Telescope observations of the jet launching and collimation in Centaurus A

Michael Janssen, Heino Falcke, Matthias Kadler +236

Very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of active galactic nuclei at millimeter wavelengths have the power to reveal the launching and initial collimation region of e…

gr-qc2021350 cited

Constraints on black-hole charges with the 2017 EHT observations of M87*

Prashant Kocherlakota, Luciano Rezzolla, Heino Falcke +234

Our understanding of strong gravity near supermassive compact objects has recently improved thanks to the measurements made by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). We use here the M8…

astro-ph.HE2021

The Polarized Image of a Synchrotron Emitting Ring of Gas Orbiting a Black Hole

Ramesh Narayan, Daniel C. M. Palumbo, Michael D. Johnson +237

Synchrotron radiation from hot gas near a black hole results in a polarized image. The image polarization is determined by effects including the orientation of the magnetic field i…

astro-ph.GA2021

Polarimetric properties of Event Horizon Telescope targets from ALMA

Ciriaco Goddi, Ivan Marti-Vidal, Hugo Messias +31

We present the results from a full polarization study carried out with ALMA during the first VLBI campaign, which was conducted in Apr 2017 in the 3mm and 1.3mm bands, in con…