Measuring photon rings with the ngEHT

P Tiede, MD Johnson, DW Pesce, DCM Palumbo… - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
General relativity predicts that images of optically thin accretion flows around black holes
should generically have a “photon ring”, composed of a series of increasingly sharp …

Adaptive analytical ray tracing of black hole photon rings

A Cárdenas-Avendaño, A Lupsasca, H Zhu - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Recent interferometric observations by the Event Horizon Telescope have resolved the
horizon-scale emission from sources in the vicinity of nearby supermassive black holes …

Reconnection-driven flares in 3D black hole magnetospheres-A scenario for hot spots around Sagittarius A

I El Mellah, B Cerutti, B Crinquand - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Low-luminosity supermassive and stellar-mass black holes (BHs) may be
embedded in a collisionless and highly magnetized plasma. They show nonthermal flares …

Balanced Turbulence and the Helicity Barrier in Black Hole Accretion

GN Wong, L Arzamasskiy - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Horizon-scale observations from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have enabled
precision study of supermassive black hole accretion. Contemporary accretion modeling …

Effects of Hydrogen versus Helium on Electromagnetic Black Hole Observables

GN Wong, CF Gammie - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The centers of our Galaxy and the nearby Messier 87 are known to contain supermassive
black holes, which support accretion flows that radiate across the electromagnetic spectrum …

Assessing the impact of instrument noise and astrophysical fluctuations on measurements of the first black hole photon ring

A Cárdenas-Avendaño, L Keeble, A Lupsasca - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Currently envisioned extensions of the Event Horizon Telescope to space will soon target
the black hole photon ring: a narrow ring-shaped imprint of a black hole's strong gravity …

The Black Hole Explorer: Photon Ring Science, Detection and Shape Measurement

A Lupsasca, A Cárdenas-Avendaño… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
General relativity predicts that black hole images ought to display a bright, thin (and as-of-yet-
unresolved) ring. This" photon ring" is produced by photons that explore the strong gravity of …

Imaging a Semi-Analytical Jet model Generated by 3D GRMHD Simulation

Y Shen, Y Hou, ZY Fan, M Guo, B Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.14954, 2023 - arxiv.org
Employing 3D GRMHD simulation, we study the images of a geometrically thin jet, whose
emissions concentrate on its surface, for accretion system surrounding a central spinning …

Modeling Reconstructed Images of Jets Launched by SANE Super-Eddington Accretion Flows around SMBHs with the ngEHT

B Curd, R Emami, F Roelofs, R Anantua - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are a potential
laboratory to study super-Eddington accretion disks and sometimes result in powerful jets or …

Emission Modeling in the EHT–ngEHT Age

R Anantua, J Dúran, N Ngata, L Oramas, J Röder… - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
This work proposes a methodology for testing phenomenologically motivated emission
processes that account for the flux and polarization distribution and global structure of the …