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from 30 November 2015 to 2 December 2015
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
Europe/Berlin timezone
Session V - mm-VLBI: SgrA* at 3mm and 1mm, EHT
Place
Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
Address: MPI für Radioastronomie
Auf dem Hügel 69
D-53121 Bonn
GERMANY
Room: 0.02
Date:
1 Dec 14:00 - 15:30
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Significant progress in millimeter VLBI has recently been made with the Event Horizon Telescope project, which aims to resolve strong field General Relativistic (GR) signatures in nearby supermassive black holes (in particular Sgr A$^\star$ and M$\,$87). Adding APEX to the inner American array now allows to image the Galactic center (Sgr A$^\star$) with a resolution of $\sim$3 Schwarzschild radii
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Presented by Dr. Rusen LU
on
1/12/2015
at
13:20
Located at the dynamical center of our Galaxy, the black hole candidate Sagittarius A$^\star$ (Sgr A$^\star$) is an ideal target for studying the structure, emission, and dynamics close to an event horizon with high-resolution VLBI. We present the first results of 3mm observations of Sgr A$^\star$ and NRAO$\,$530 performed with the VLBA, GBT and LMT on May 2015. Thanks to an unprecedented sensiti
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Presented by Dr. Cornelia MUELLER
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1/12/2015
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13:40
Magnetic fields play central roles in the accretion, emission, and outflow near black holes but have never been directly observed in this region. Because linear polarization of the bright synchrotron emission from galactic cores traces these magnetic fields, polarimetric interferometry with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is capable of imaging the near-horizon fields. I will present the results
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Presented by Dr. Michael JOHNSON
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1/12/2015
at
14:00
Here we provide a brief over view of the role of JIVE in the BlackHoleCam project. Our efforts in developing software that will open up the field of millimeter VLBI for astronomers outside of the radio community and simplify operations and verification checks at the telescopes are described.
Presented by Dr. Ilse VAN BEMMEL
on
1/12/2015
at
14:25
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration is developing a very sensitive VLBI array for the millimeter and submillimeter wavelength regime. Its primary targets are the supermassive black holes in M87 and Sagittarius A*, for which it is already achieving an angular resolution finer than the diameter of the lensed photon ring predicted by general relativitiy. The EHT has also collected data over s
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Presented by Dr. Vincent FISH
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1/12/2015
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13:00
