下一代事件视界望远镜的关键科学目标
高能天体物理现象
2023-04-26 v1 星系天体物理
天体物理仪器与方法
摘要
事件视界望远镜（EHT）已获得首张超大质量黑洞图像，揭示了椭圆星系 M87 与银河系中的中心致密天体。通过下一代 EHT（ngEHT）项目对该阵列的拟议升级将大幅提高现有 EHT 观测的角分辨率、动态范围与时间覆盖。这些改进将独特地促成大量与黑洞科学相关的变革性新发现，从强引力的事件视界尺度研究，到爆发暂现源研究，再到超大质量黑洞的宇宙学增长与影响。在此，我们提出 ngEHT 的关键科学目标及其相关的仪器需求，二者均通过涉及全球数百名科学家的多年国际努力制定。
引用
@article{arxiv.2304.11188,
title = {Key Science Goals for the Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope},
author = {Michael D. Johnson and Kazunori Akiyama and Lindy Blackburn and Katherine L. Bouman and Avery E. Broderick and Vitor Cardoso and R. P. Fender and Christian M. Fromm and Peter Galison and José L. Gómez and Daryl Haggard and Matthew L. Lister and Andrei P. Lobanov and Sera Markoff and Ramesh Narayan and Priyamvada Natarajan and Tiffany Nichols and Dominic W. Pesce and Ziri Younsi and Andrew Chael and Koushik Chatterjee and Ryan Chaves and Juliusz Doboszewski and Richard Dodson and Sheperd S. Doeleman and Jamee Elder and Garret Fitzpatrick and Kari Haworth and Janice Houston and Sara Issaoun and Yuri Y. Kovalev and Aviad Levis and Rocco Lico and Alexandru Marcoci and Niels C. M. Martens and Neil M. Nagar and Aaron Oppenheimer and Daniel C. M. Palumbo and Angelo Ricarte and María J. Rioja and Freek Roelofs and Ann C. Thresher and Paul Tiede and Jonathan Weintroub and Maciek Wielgus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.11188},
year = {2023}
}
备注
32 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in a special issue of Galaxies on the ngEHT (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/galaxies/special_issues/ngEHT_blackholes)