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20122024
most citedThe Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) Mission

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115 papers

astro-ph.IM2024★ 30 cited

First Very Long Baseline Interferometry Detections at 870μm

Alexander W. Raymond, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Keiichi Asada +276

The first very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) detections at 870m wavelength (345GHz frequency) are reported, achieving the highest diffraction-limited angular resolutio…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 34 cited

Broadband Multi-wavelength Properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT Campaign including a Very High Energy Flaring Episode

J. C. Algaba, M. Balokovic, S. Chandra +738

The nearby elliptical galaxy M87 contains one of the only two supermassive black holes whose emission surrounding the event horizon has been imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 13 cited

Joint ALMA/X-ray monitoring of the radio-quiet type 1 AGN IC 4329A

E. Shablovinskaya, C. Ricci, C-S. Chang +20

The origin of a compact millimeter (mm, 100-250 GHz) emission in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (RQ AGN) remains debated. Recent studies propose a connection with self-absorbed…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

XMM-Newton --NuSTAR monitoring campaign of the Seyfert 1 galaxy IC 4329A

A. Tortosa, C. Ricci, E. Shablovinskaia +13

We present the results of a joint {\it XMM-Newton} and {\it NuSTAR} campaign on the active galactic nucleus (AGN) IC 4329A, consisting of 9 20 ks {\it XMM-Newton} observat…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 93 cited

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IX. Detection of Near-horizon Circular Polarization

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations have revealed a bright ring of emission around the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. EHT images in linear polariza…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

Polarimetric Geometric Modeling for mm-VLBI Observations of Black Holes

Freek Roelofs, Michael D. Johnson, Andrew Chael +4

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a millimeter very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) array that has imaged the apparent shadows of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sagit…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 681 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI: Testing the Black Hole Metric

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 450 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. III: Imaging of the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We present the first event-horizon-scale images and spatiotemporal analysis of Sgr A* taken with the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017 April at a wavelength of 1.3 mm. Imaging of Sgr…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 548 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Testing Astrophysical Models of the Galactic Center Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

In this paper, we provide a first physical interpretation for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)'s 2017 observations of Sgr A*. Our main approach is to compare resolved EHT data at…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1.9k cited

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

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We present the first Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A), the Galactic center source associated with a supermassive black hole. These observati…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 370 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Variability, Morphology, and Black Hole Mass

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

In this paper we quantify the temporal variability and image morphology of the horizon-scale emission from Sgr A*, as observed by the EHT in 2017 April at a wavelength of 1.3 mm. W…

astro-ph.GA2023

BASS XXXIV: A Catalog of the Nuclear Mm-wave Continuum Emission Properties of AGNs Constrained on Scales 100--200 pc

Taiki Kawamuro, Claudio Ricci, Richard F. Mushotzky +25

We present a catalog of the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) continuum properties of 98 nearby ( 0.05) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected from the 70-month Swift/BAT hard X-ray c…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

A search for pulsars around Sgr A* in the first Event Horizon Telescope dataset

Pablo Torne, Kuo Liu, Ralph P. Eatough +282

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observed in 2017 the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), at a frequency of 228.1 GHz (=1.3 mm). Th…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 28 cited

The Event Horizon Telescope Image of the Quasar NRAO 530

Svetlana Jorstad, Maciek Wielgus, Rocco Lico +27

We report on the observations of the quasar NRAO 530 with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) on 2017 April 5-7, when NRAO 530 was used as a calibrator for the EHT observations of Sa…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

Extended hard X-ray emission in highly obscured AGN

Jingzhe Ma, Martin Elvis, G. Fabbiano +3

Kilo-parsec scale hard ( 3 keV) X-ray continuum and fluorescent Fe K line emission has been recently discovered in nearby Compton-thick (CT) active galactic nuclei (AGN), whi…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 27 cited

Probing the Structure and Evolution of BASS AGN through Eddington Ratios

Tonima Tasnim Ananna, C. Megan Urry, Claudio Ricci +23

We constrain the intrinsic Eddington ratio (\lamEdd ) distribution function for local AGN in bins of low and high obscuration (log NH <= 22 and 22 < log NH < 25), using the Swift-B…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 14 cited

Jet-ISM interaction in NGC 1167 / B2 0258+35, A LINER with an AGN past

G. Fabbiano, A. Paggi, R. Morganti +9

We report the results of joint Chandra/ACIS - NuSTAR deep observations of NGC 1167, the host galaxy of the young radio jet B2 0258+35. In the ACIS data we detect X-ray emission, ex…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 57 cited

BASS XXXII: Studying the Nuclear Mm-wave Continuum Emission of AGNs with ALMA at Scales 100-200 pc

Taiki Kawamuro, Claudio Ricci, Masatoshi Imanishi +25

To understand the origin of nuclear ( 100 pc) millimeter-wave (mm-wave) continuum emission in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we systematically analyzed sub-arcsec resolut…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 47 cited

Resolving the inner parsec of the blazar J1924-2914 with the Event Horizon Telescope

Sara Issaoun, Maciek Wielgus, Svetlana Jorstad +27

The blazar J1924-2914 is a primary Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) calibrator for the Galactic Center's black hole Sagittarius A*. Here we present the first total and linearly polari…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 148 cited

BASS XXII: The BASS DR2 AGN Catalog and Data

Michael J. Koss, Claudio Ricci, Benny Trakhtenbrot +32

We present the AGN catalog and optical spectroscopy for the second data release of the Swift BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS DR2). With this DR2 release we provide 1425 optical…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 65 cited

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey XXI: The Data Release 2 Overview

Michael J. Koss, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Claudio Ricci +24

The BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS) is designed to provide a highly complete census of the key physical parameters of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) that power local active g…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 112 cited

Millimeter light curves of Sagittarius A* observed during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope campaign

Maciek Wielgus, Nicola Marchili, Ivan Marti-Vidal +28

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observed the compact radio source, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), in the Galactic Center on 2017 April 5-11 in the 1.3 millimeter wavelength band. At th…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 53 cited

X-ray Coronal Properties of Swift/BAT-Selected Seyfert 1 Active Galactic Nuclei

Nikita Kamraj, Murray Brightman, Fiona A. Harrison +9

The corona is an integral component of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) which produces the bulk of the X-ray emission above 1--2 keV. However, many of its physical properties and the m…

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…