most citedThe Black Hole Explorer: Operating a Hybrid Observatory

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quant-ph2025

Quantum-Processing-Assisted Classical Communications

Kelly Werker Smith, Don Boroson, Saikat Guha +1

We describe a general quantum receiver protocol that maps laser-light-modulated classical communications signals into quantum processors for decoding with quantum logic. The quantu…

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

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.IM20245 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.IM2024

High Data Rate Laser Communications for the Black Hole Explorer

Jade Wang, Bryan Bilyeu, Don Boroson +14

The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a mission concept that can dramatically improve state-of-the-art astronomical very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) imaging resolution by exten…