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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.GA2023

The Past and Future of East Asia to Italy: Nearly Global VLBI

Gabriele Giovannini, Yuzhu Cui, Kazuhiro Hada +29

We present here the East Asia to Italy Nearly Global VLBI (EATING VLBI) project. How this project started and the evolution of the international collaboration between Korean, Japan…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 32 cited

Unraveling Twisty Linear Polarization Morphologies in Black Hole Images

Razieh Emami, Angelo Ricarte, George N. Wong +23

We investigate general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations (GRMHD) to determine the physical origin of the twisty patterns of linear polarization seen in spatially resolve…

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.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.GA2021★ 26 cited

Persistent Non-Gaussian Structure in the Image of Sagittarius A* at 86 GHz

S. Issaoun, M. D. Johnson, L. Blackburn +26

Observations of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) are affected by interstellar scattering along our…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

East Asian VLBI Network Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei Jets: Imaging with KaVA+Tianma+Nanshan

Yuzhu Cui, Kazuhiro Hada, Motoki Kino +74

The East Asian very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) Network (EAVN) is a rapidly evolving international VLBI array that is currently promoted under joint efforts among China, Ja…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 1.7k cited

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

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We present measurements of the properties of the central radio source in M87 using Event Horizon Telescope data obtained during the 2017 campaign. We develop and fit geometric cres…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 1.5k cited

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Physical Origin of the Asymmetric Ring

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has mapped the central compact radio source of the elliptical galaxy M87 at 1.3 mm with unprecedented angular resolution. Here we consider the phy…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 1.5k cited

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Imaging the Central Supermassive Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We present the first Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) images of M87, using observations from April 2017 at 1.3 mm wavelength. These images show a prominent ring with a diameter of ~40…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 884 cited

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. III. Data Processing and Calibration

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We present the calibration and reduction of Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) 1.3mm radio wavelength observations of the supermassive black hole candidate at the center of the radio ga…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 18 cited

Jet Kinematics of the Quasar 4C +21.35 from Observations with the KaVA Very Long Baseline Interferometry Array

Taeseok Lee, Sascha Trippe, Motoki Kino +39

We present the jet kinematics of the flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) 4C +21.35 using time-resolved KaVA very long baseline interferometry array radio maps obtained from September…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 13 cited

Micro-arcsecond structure of Sagittarius A* revealed by high-sensitivity 86 GHz VLBI observations

Christiaan D. Brinkerink, Cornelia Müller, Heino D. Falcke +21

The compact radio source Sagittarius~A (Sgr~A)in the Galactic Center is the primary supermassive black hole candidate. General relativistic magnetohydrodynamical (GRMHD) si…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 103 cited

The Scattering and Intrinsic Structure of Sagittarius A* at Radio Wavelengths

Michael D. Johnson, Ramesh Narayan, Dimitrios Psaltis +12

Radio images of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), are dominated by interstellar scattering. Previous studies of Sgr A* have adopted an anisotrop…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 16 cited

VERA monitoring of the radio jet 3C 84 during 2007--2013: detection of non-linear motion

Koichiro Hiura, Hiroshi Nagai, Motoki Kino +13

We present a kinematic study of the subparsec-scale radio jet of the radio galaxy 3C 84/NGC 1275 with the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA) array at 22 GHz for 80 epochs…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 86 cited

Detection of intrinsic source structure at ~3 Schwarzschild radii with Millimeter-VLBI observations of SAGITTARIUS A*

Ru-Sen Lu, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Alan L. Roy +53

We report results from very long baseline interferometric (VLBI) observations of the supermassive black hole in the Galactic center, Sgr A*, at 1.3 mm (230 GHz). The observations w…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 88 cited

Persistent Asymmetric Structure of Sagittarius A* on Event Horizon Scales

Vincent L. Fish, Michael D. Johnson, Sheperd S. Doeleman +69

The Galactic Center black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is a prime observing target for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which can resolve the 1.3 mm emission from this source on…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 136 cited

Measuring Mass Accretion Rate onto the Supermassive Black Hole in M 87 Using Faraday Rotation Measure with the Submillimeter Array

C. Y. Kuo, K. Asada, R. Rao +11

We present the first constraint on Faraday rotation measure (RM) at submillimeter wavelengths for the nucleus of M 87. By fitting the polarization position angles () observed wi…