1 code implementation • 3 Nov 2017 • Katherine L. Bouman, Michael D. Johnson, Adrian V. Dalca, Andrew A. Chael, Freek Roelofs, Sheperd S. Doeleman, William T. Freeman
Most recently, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has extended VLBI to short millimeter wavelengths with a goal of achieving angular resolution sufficient for imaging the event horizons of nearby supermassive black holes.
1 code implementation • 3 Nov 2017 • Michael D. Johnson, Katherine L. Bouman, Lindy Blackburn, Andrew A. Chael, Julian Rosen, Hotaka Shiokawa, Freek Roelofs, Kazunori Akiyama, Vincent L. Fish, Sheperd S. Doeleman
By linking widely separated radio dishes, the technique of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) can greatly enhance angular resolution in radio astronomy.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 3 Aug 2017 • Freek Roelofs, Michael D. Johnson, Hotaka Shiokawa, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Heino Falcke
Turbulent evolution within the accretion disk is expected on timescales comparable to the orbital period, typically an order of magnitude larger than $t_G$.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena