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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.GA2026

Dynamics and geometry of the inner sub-parsec-scale jet in 3C 279 observed with the Event Horizon Telescope

Hendrik Mueller, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Ai-Ling Zeng +275

The 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations resolve the innermost jet region of the blazar 3C279 with unprecedented detail. The reconstructed images consistently reveal a compact…

astro-ph.GA2026

Full-polarization millimeter wavelength variability of Sagittarius A* during the 2018 EHT campaign

Ezequiel Albentosa-Ruiz, Jasmin E. Washington, Nicola Marchili +272

Sagittarius A* (Srg A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, provides a unique laboratory to study accretion dynamics and plasma processes near the event ho…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

First polarization study of the M87 jet and active galactic nuclei at submillimeter wavelengths with ALMA

Ciriaco Goddi, Douglas F. Carlos

We present full-polarization observations at mm (345 GHz) conducted with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) toward Messier 87 (M87) and seven other r…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Demographics of black holes at 100 R scales: accretion flows, jets, and shadows

Dhanya G. Nair, Neil M. Nagar, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan +87

Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the gravitationally lensed rings around the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in Messier 87 (M87) and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) have now been…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Faraday rotation measure of the M87 jet at 3.5mm with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array

Sijia Peng, Ru-Sen Lu, Ciriaco Goddi +9

Faraday rotation is an important probe of the magnetic fields and magnetized plasma around active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets. We present a Faraday rotation measure image of the M87…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 22 cited

RadioAstron Space VLBI Imaging of the jet in M87: I. Detection of high brightness temperature at 22 GHz

Jae-Young Kim, Tuomas Savolainen, Petr Voitsik +19

We present results from the first 22 GHz space very-long-baseline interferometric (VLBI) imaging observations of M87 by RadioAstron. As a part of the Nearby AGN Key Science Program…

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★ 18 cited

A persistent double nuclear structure in 3C 84

Junghwan Oh, Jeffrey A. Hodgson, Sascha Trippe +11

3C 84 (NGC 1275) is the radio source at the center of the Perseus Cluster and exhibits a bright radio jet. We observed the source with the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA) betwe…

astro-ph.GA2021

Pinpointing the jet apex in 3C 84

G. F. Paraschos, J. -Y. Kim, T. P. Krichbaum +4

Jets which are powered by an AGN are a crucial element in the study of their central black holes (BH) and their immediate surroundings. The formation of such jets is the subject of…

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.GA2020★ 15 cited

Interferometric Monitoring of Gamma-ray Bright AGNs: OJ 287

Jee Won Lee, Sang-Sung Lee, Juan-Carlos Algaba +9

We present the results of simultaneous multi-frequency imaging observations at 22, 43, 86, and 129\,GHz of OJ\,287. We used the Korean VLBI Network as part of the Interferometric M…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 19 cited

Exploring the Morphology and Origins of the 4C 38.41 Jet

Juan Carlos Algaba, Bindu Rani, Sang-Sung Lee +3

We study the properties of the innermost jet of the flat spectrum radio quasar 1633+382 (4C~38.41) based on VLBI data from the radio monitoring observations of the Boston Universit…

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★ 1 cited

Origin and Evolution of the Multi-band Variability in the Flat Spectrum Radio Source 4C 38.41

Juan Carlos Algaba, Sang Sung Lee, Bindu Rani +13

The flat spectrum radio quasar 4C 38.41 showed a significant increase of its radio flux density during the period 2012 March - 2015 August which correlates with gamma-ray flaring a…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 45 cited

Spatially resolved origin of mm-wave linear polarization in the nuclear region of 3C 84

J. -Y. Kim, T. P. Krichbaum, A. P. Marscher +12

We report results from a deep polarization imaging of the nearby radio galaxy 3C84 (NGC1275). The source was observed with the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA) at 86…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 14 cited

Exploring the Nature of the 2016 γ-ray Emission in the Blazar 1749+096

Dae-Won Kim, Sascha Trippe, Sang-Sung Lee +9

Recent Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) light curves indicate an active -ray state spanning about five months from 2016 June to 2016 October in the BL Lac object 1749+096 (OT 08…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 183 cited

The limb-brightened jet of M87 down to 7 Schwarzschild radii scale

J. -Y. Kim, T. P. Krichbaum, R. -S. Lu +6

M87 is one of the nearest radio galaxies with a prominent jet extending from sub-pc to kpc-scales. Because of its proximity and large mass of the central black hole, it is one of t…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 24 cited

Long-term millimeter VLBI monitoring of M87 with KVN at milliarcsecond resolution: nuclear spectrum

Jae-Young Kim, Sang-Sung Lee, Jeffrey A. Hodgson +5

We study the centimeter- to millimeter-wavelength synchrotron spectrum of the core of the radio galaxy M87 at spatial scales using four years…

astro-ph.GA2017

3 mm GMVA Observations of Total and Polarized Emission from Blazar and Radio Galaxy Core Regions

Carolina Casadio, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Alan P. Marscher +7

We present total and linearly polarized 3 mm Global mm-VLBI Array images of a sample of blazars and radio galaxies from the VLBA-BU-BLAZAR 7 mm monitoring program designed to probe…

astro-ph.GA2017

The Millimeter-Radio Emission of BL Lacertae During Two gamma-ray Outbursts

Dae-Won Kim, Sascha Trippe, Sang-Sung Lee +13

We present a study of the inexplicit connection between radio jet activity and gamma-ray emission of BL Lacertae (BL Lac; 2200+420). We analyze the long-term millimeter activity of…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 33 cited

Interferometric Monitoring of Gamma-ray Bright AGNs I: Results of Single-epoch Multifrequency Observations

Sang-Sung Lee, Kyoaki Wajima, Juan-Carlos Algaba +12

We present results of single-epoch very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of gamma-ray bright active galactic nuclei (AGNs) using the Korean VLBI Network (KVN) at 22…