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Key science goals for the next-generation Event Horizon Telescope

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  • The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has led to the first images of a supermassive black hole, revealing the central compact objects in the elliptical galaxy M87 and the Milky Way. Proposed upgrades to this array through the next-generation EHT (ngEHT) program would sharply improve the angular resolution, dynamic range, and temporal coverage of the existing EHT observations. These improvements will uniquely enable a wealth of transformative new discoveries related to black hole science, extending from event-horizon-scale studies of strong gravityThe Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has led to the first images of a supermassive black hole, revealing the central compact objects in the elliptical galaxy M87 and the Milky Way. Proposed upgrades to this array through the next-generation EHT (ngEHT) program would sharply improve the angular resolution, dynamic range, and temporal coverage of the existing EHT observations. These improvements will uniquely enable a wealth of transformative new discoveries related to black hole science, extending from event-horizon-scale studies of strong gravity to studies of explosive transients to the cosmological growth and influence of supermassive black holes. Here, we present the key science goals for the ngEHT and their associated instrument requirements, both of which have been formulated through a multi-year international effort involving hundreds of scientists worldwide.show moreshow less

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Author: Michael D. Johnson, Kazunori Akiyama, Lindy Blackburn, Katherine L. Bouman, Avery E. Broderick, Vitor Cardoso, Rob P. Fender, Christian M. Fromm, Peter Galison, José L. Gómez, Daryl Haggard, Matthew L. Lister, Andrei P. Lobanov, Sera Markoff, Ramesh Narayan, Priyamvada Natarajan, Tiffany Nichols, Dominic W. Pesce, Ziri Younsi, Andrew Chael, Koushik Chatterjee, Ryan Chaves, Juliusz Doboszewski, Richard Dodson, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Jamee Elder, Garret Fitzpatrick, Kari Haworth, Janice Houston, Sara Issaoun, Yuri Y. Kovalev, Aviad Levis, Rocco Lico, Alexandru Marcoci, Niels C. M. Martens, Neil M. Nagar, Aaron Oppenheimer, Daniel C. M. Palumbo, Angelo Ricarte, María  J. Rioja, Freek Roelofs, Ann C. Thresher, Paul Tiede, Jonathan Weintroub, Maciek Wielgus
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-313525
Document Type:Journal article
Faculties:Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie / Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik
Language:English
Parent Title (English):Galaxies
ISSN:2075-4434
Year of Completion:2023
Volume:11
Issue:3
Article Number:61
Source:Galaxies (2023) 11:3, 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11030061
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11030061
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 52 Astronomie / 520 Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften
Tag:EHT; accretion; black holes; general relativity; interferometry; ngEHT; relativistic jets; very-long-baseline interferometry
Release Date:2024/01/25
Date of first Publication:2023/04/24
EU-Project number / Contract (GA) number:101052587
EU-Project number / Contract (GA) number:101065772
EU-Project number / Contract (GA) number:101076402
OpenAIRE:OpenAIRE
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International