IMAGING AN EVENT HORIZON: MITIGATION OF SCATTERING TOWARD SAGITTARIUS A*

The image of the emission surrounding the black hole in the center of the Milky Way is predicted to exhibit the imprint of general relativistic (GR) effects, including the existence of a shadow feature and a photon ring of diameter ~50 μas. Structure on these scales can be resolved by millimeter-wav...

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Main Authors: Fish, Vincent L. (Contributor), Johnson, Michael D. (Author), Lu, Rusen (Contributor), Doeleman, Sheperd Samuel (Contributor), Bouman, Katherine L. (Contributor), Zoran, Daniel (Contributor), Freeman, William T. (Contributor), Psaltis, Dimitrios (Author), Narayan, Ramesh (Author), Pankratius, Victor (Contributor), Broderick, Avery E. (Author), Gwinn, Carl R. (Author), Vertatschitsch, Laura E. (Author)
Other Authors: Haystack Observatory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society, 2015-01-26T21:09:44Z.
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