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The Black Hole Explorer: Preliminary Antenna Design
T. K. Sridharan, R. Lehmensiek, D. Marrone +6
We present the basic design of a large, light weight, spaceborne antenna for the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) space Very Long Baseline Interferometry (space-VLBI) mission, achieving…
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…
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…
The SARAO MeerKAT 1.3 GHz Galactic Plane Survey
S. Goedhart, W. D. Cotton, F. Camilo +127
We present the SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (SMGPS), a 1.3 GHz continuum survey of almost half of the Galactic Plane (251° 358°and 2° 61°at $|b| \le 1.…
The 1.28 GHz MeerKAT Galactic Center Mosaic
I. Heywood, I. Rammala, F. Camilo +108
The inner 200 pc region of the Galaxy contains a 4 million M supermassive black hole (SMBH), significant quantities of molecular gas, and star formation and cosmic…
The MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey I. Survey Overview and Highlights
K. Knowles, W. D. Cotton, L. Rudnick +148
MeerKAT's large number of antennas, spanning 8 km with a densely packed 1 km core, create a powerful instrument for wide-area surveys, with high sensitivity over a wide range of an…
MID-Radio Telescope, Single Pixel Feed Packages for the Square Kilometre Array: An Overview
Alice Pellegrini, Jonas Flygare, Isak P. Theron +10
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world s largest radio telescope, enabling science with unprecedented detail and survey speed. The p…
The 1.28 GHz MeerKAT DEEP2 Image
T. Mauch, W. D. Cotton, J. J. Condon +101
We present the confusion-limited 1.28 GHz MeerKAT DEEP2 image covering one FWHM primary beam area with FWHM resolution and Jy/beam rms nois…
Inflation of 430-parsec bipolar radio bubbles in the Galactic Centre by an energetic event
I. Heywood, F. Camilo, W. D. Cotton +96
The Galactic Centre contains a supermassive black hole with a mass of 4 million suns within an environment that differs markedly from that of the Galactic disk. While the black hol…
Primary beam effects of radio astronomy antennas -- II. Modelling the MeerKAT L-band beam
K. M. B. Asad, J. N. Girard, M. de Villers +12
After a decade of design and construction, South Africa's SKA-MID precursor MeerKAT has begun its science operations. To make full use of the widefield capability of the array, it…
Revival of the magnetar PSR J1622-4950: observations with MeerKAT, Parkes, XMM-Newton, Swift, Chandra, and NuSTAR
F. Camilo, P. Scholz, M. Serylak +205
New radio (MeerKAT and Parkes) and X-ray (XMM-Newton, Swift, Chandra, and NuSTAR) observations of PSR J1622-4950 indicate that the magnetar, in a quiescent state since at least ear…
Engineering and Science Highlights of the KAT-7 Radio Telescope
A. R. Foley, T. Alberts, R P. Armstrong +100
The construction of the KAT-7 array in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape in South Africa was intended primarily as an engineering prototype for technologies and techniques appl…