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most citedFirst Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way

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astro-ph.GA2021★ 287 cited

The mass distribution in the Galactic Centre from interferometric astrometry of multiple stellar orbits

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, N. Aimar +62

The stars orbiting the compact radio source Sgr A* in the Galactic Centre are precision probes of the gravitational field around the closest massive black hole. In addition to adap…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 35 cited

Deep Images of the Galactic Center with GRAVITY

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, N. Aimar +65

Stellar orbits at the Galactic Center provide a very clean probe of the gravitational potential of the supermassive black hole. They can be studied with unique precision, beyond th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 139 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…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 18 cited

The Variability of the Black-Hole Image in M87 at the Dynamical Time Scale

Kaushik Satapathy, Dimitrios Psaltis, Feryal Ozel +235

The black-hole images obtained with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are expected to be variable at the dynamical timescale near their horizons. For the black hole at the center o…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 76 cited

What really makes an accretion disc MAD

Mitchell C. Begelman, Nicolas Scepi, Jason Dexter

Magnetically arrested accretion discs (MADs) around black holes (BH) have the potential to stimulate the production of powerful jets and account for recent ultra-high-resolution ob…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 86 cited

The mass of Beta Pictoris c from Beta Pictoris b orbital motion

S. Lacour, J. J. Wang, L. Rodet +96

We aim to demonstrate that the presence and mass of an exoplanet can now be effectively derived from the astrometry of another exoplanet. We combined previous astrometry of Pic…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 49 cited

Radiation GRMHD Simulations of the Hard State of Black Hole X-ray Binaries and the Collapse of a Hot Accretion Flow

Jason Dexter, Nicolas Scepi, Mitchell C. Begelman

We present global radiation GRMHD simulations of strongly magnetized accretion onto a spinning, stellar mass black hole at sub-Eddington rates. Using a frequency-dependent Monte Ca…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 22 cited

Radiation GRMHD simulations of M87: funnel properties and prospects for gap acceleration

Philippe Z. Yao, Jason Dexter, Alexander Y. Chen +2

We use the public code ebhlight to carry out 3D radiative general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations of accretion onto the supermassive black hole in M87. The si…

astro-ph.GA2021

A geometric distance to the supermassive black Hole of NGC 3783

GRAVITY Collaboration, A. Amorim, M. Bauböck +45

The angular size of the broad line region (BLR) of the nearby active galactic nucleus (AGN) NGC 3783 has been spatially resolved by recent observations with VLTI/GRAVITY. A reverbe…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 64 cited

Constraining particle acceleration in Sgr A* with simultaneous GRAVITY, Spitzer, NuSTAR and Chandra observations

R. Abuter, A. Amorim, M. Bauböck +81

We report the time-resolved spectral analysis of a bright near-infrared and moderate X-ray flare of Sgr A*. We obtained light curves in the -, -, and -bands in the mid- an…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 69 cited

Sgr A* X-ray flares from non-thermal particle acceleration in a magnetically arrested disc

Nicolas Scepi, Jason Dexter, Mitchell C. Begelman

Sgr A* exhibits flares in the near-infrared and X-ray bands, with the luminosity in these bands increasing by factors of for minutes. One of the models propos…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 27 cited

GRAVITY K-band spectroscopy of HD 206893 B: brown dwarf or exoplanet

J. Kammerer, S. Lacour, T. Stolker +94

We aim to reveal the nature of the reddest known substellar companion HD 206893 B by studying its near-infrared colors and spectral morphology and by investigating its orbital moti…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 4 cited

MOLsphere and pulsations of the Galactic Center's red supergiant GCIRS 7 from VLTI/GRAVITY

GRAVITY Collaboration, G. Rodríguez-Coira, T. Paumard +55

GCIRS 7, the brightest star in the Galactic central parsec, formed Myr ago together with dozens of massive stars in a disk orbiting the central black-hole. It has been argu…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 89 cited

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★ 111 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 469 cited

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VII. Polarization of the Ring

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

In 2017 April, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observed the near-horizon region around the supermassive black hole at the core of the M87 galaxy. These 1.3 mm wavelength observat…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 111 cited

Broadband Multi-wavelength Properties of M87 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope Campaign

J. C. Algaba, J. Anczarski, K. Asada +36

In 2017, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration succeeded in capturing the first direct image of the center of the M87 galaxy. The asymmetric ring morphology and size are…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 23 cited

Relative depolarization of the black hole photon ring in GRMHD models of Sgr A* and M87*

A. Jiménez-Rosales, J. Dexter, S. M. Ressler +15

Using general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accreting black holes, we show that a suitable subtraction of the linear polarization per pixel from total intensity i…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 133 cited

Constraining the Nature of the PDS 70 Protoplanets with VLTI/GRAVITY

J. J. Wang, A. Vigan, S. Lacour +101

We present K-band interferometric observations of the PDS 70 protoplanets along with their host star using VLTI/GRAVITY. We obtained K-band spectra and 100 as precision astromet…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 83 cited

The central parsec of NGC 3783: a rotating broad emission line region, asymmetric hot dust structure, and compact coronal line region

GRAVITY Collaboration, A. Amorim, M. Bauböck +47

Using VLTI/GRAVITY and SINFONI data, we investigate the sub-pc gas and dust structure around the nearby type 1 AGN hosted by NGC 3783. The K-band coverage of GRAVITY uniquely allow…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 192 cited

Improved GRAVITY astrometric accuracy from modeling of optical aberrations

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, A. Amorim +60

The GRAVITY instrument on the ESO VLTI pioneers the field of high-precision near-infrared interferometry by providing astrometry at the as level. Measurements at such…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 9 cited

The ExoGRAVITY project: using single mode interferometry to characterize exoplanets

S. Lacour, J. J. Wang, M. Nowak +89

Combining adaptive optics and interferometric observations results in a considerable contrast gain compared to single-telescope, extreme AO systems. Taking advantage of this, the E…