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用于事件视界望远镜的新亚毫米波VLBI位置的评价

Evaluation of New Submillimeter VLBI Sites for the Event Horizon Telescope

Alexander W. Raymond, Daniel Palumbo, Scott N. Paine, Lindy Blackburn, Rodrigo Córdova Rosado, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Joseph R. Farah, Michael D. Johnson, Freek R… 展开作者

Alexander W. Raymond, Daniel Palumbo, Scott N. Paine, Lindy Blackburn, Rodrigo Córdova Rosado, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Joseph R. Farah, Michael D. Johnson, Freek Roelofs, Remo P. J. Tilanus, Jonathan Weintroub

摘要:

事件视界望远镜(EHT)是一个非常长的基线干涉仪,用于在事件视界尺度上对超大质量黑洞进行成像。在本文中,我们调查的候选网站扩展EHT阵列具有改进的成像能力。我们使用历史气象学和辐射转移分析来评估站点性能。大多数现有的网站在EHT阵列的中位数天顶不透明度小于0.2,在230 GHz的3月/4月的观测季节。七个现有的EHT网站有345 GHz的不透明度小于0.5在观察月。在分析的40多个候选新地点中,约有一半的230 GHz不透明度可与现有的EHT地点相媲美,至少有17个候选地点适合345 GHz观测。一组具有良好透射率和地理位置的新站点大大增强了地平线尺度上的成像和科学。

英文摘要:

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a very long baseline interferometer built to image supermassive black holes on event-horizon scales. In this paper, we investigate candidate sites for an expanded EHT array with improved imaging capabilities. We use historical meteorology and radiative transfer analysis to evaluate site performance. Most of the existing sites in the EHT array have median zenith opacity less than 0.2 at 230 GHz during the March/April observing season. Seven of the existing EHT sites have 345 GHz opacity less than 0.5 during observing months. Out of more than forty candidate new locations analyzed, approximately half have 230 GHz opacity comparable to the existing EHT sites, and at least seventeen of the candidate sites would be comparably good for 345 GHz observing. A group of new sites with favorable transmittance and geographic placement leads to greatly enhanced imaging and science on horizon scales.

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