向事件视界靠拢——微亚秒分辨率下AGN的邻近性
天体物理学
2007-05-23 v1
摘要
我们总结了目前在3 mm (86 GHz)、2 mm (129-150 GHz)和1.3 mm (215-230 GHz)波段的VLBI实验现状。我们呈现并讨论了一幅新的M87 (Virgo A) 3 mm VLBI图，其空分辨率仅约为20个Schwarzschild半径。我们讨论了SgrA*的最新VLBI结果，并倾向于在扩展的欧洲毫米VLBI网络中进行新的观测，以寻找变动性。我们讨论了在波长<2mm时成像超大质量黑洞事件视界的可能性，并指出，添加大型灵敏毫米望远镜如CARMA、SMA、LMT和ALMA对于实现这一目标至关重要。
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411487,
title = {Towards the Event Horizon - The Vicinity of AGN at Micro-Arcsecond Resolution},
author = {T. P. Krichbaum and D. A. Graham and W. Alef and A. Kraus and B. W. Sohn and U. Bach and A. Polatidis and A. Witzel and J. A. Zensus and M. Bremer and A. Greve and M. Grewing and S. Doeleman and R. B. Phillips and A. E. E. Rogers and H. Fagg and P. Strittmatter and L. Ziurys and J. Conway and R. S. Booth and S. Urpo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411487},
year = {2007}
}
备注
4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of the 7th European VLBI Network Symposium held in Toledo, Spain on October 12-15, 2004. Editors: R. Bachiller, F. Colomer, J.-F. Desmurs, P. de Vicente