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对事件视界成像:减轻朝向人马座A* 的散射

Imaging an Event Horizon: Mitigation of Scattering Toward Sagittarius A*

Vincent L. Fish, Michael D. Johnson, Ru-Sen Lu, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Katherine L. Bouman, Daniel Zoran, William T. Freeman, Dimitrios Psaltis, Ramesh Narayan, V… 展开作者

Vincent L. Fish, Michael D. Johnson, Ru-Sen Lu, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Katherine L. Bouman, Daniel Zoran, William T. Freeman, Dimitrios Psaltis, Ramesh Narayan, Victor Pankratius, Avery E. Broderick, Carl R. Gwinn, Laura E. Vertatschitsch

摘要:

银河系中心的黑洞周围的辐射图像预计将显示出广义相对论(GR)效应的印记,包括阴影特征和直径约50微弧秒的光子环的存在。这些尺度上的结构可以通过毫米波长甚长基线干涉测量(VLBI)来分辨。然而,由于星际电子的散射,在λ>= 1.3 mm处,感兴趣的强场GR特征将变得模糊。在基线长度的大部分相关范围内,散射特性都得到了很好的理解,这表明散射可能(大部分)是可逆的。我们模拟观察的模型图像的Sgr A*,并证明,散射的影响确实可以减轻重建图像之前,通过校正的vibrium。该技术也适用于较长波长的Sgr A*。

英文摘要:

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 microarcseconds. Structure on these scales can be resolved by millimeter-wavelength very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). However, strong-field GR features of interest will be blurred at lambda >= 1.3 mm due to scattering by interstellar electrons. The scattering properties are well understood over most of the relevant range of baseline lengths, suggesting that the scattering may be (mostly) invertible. We simulate observations of a model image of Sgr A* and demonstrate that the effects of scattering can indeed be mitigated by correcting the visibilities before reconstructing the image. This technique is also applicable to Sgr A* at longer wavelengths.

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