Seeing the unseeable
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2017-10-10 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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Sheperd Doeleman
Abstract
The Event Horizon Telescope, an Earth-sized interferometer, aims to capture an image of a black hole's event horizon to test the theory of general relativity and probe accretion processes.
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@article{arxiv.1710.03104,
title = {Seeing the unseeable},
author = {Sheperd Doeleman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.03104},
year = {2017}
}
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