4yr 1.3mm VLBI observations of SgrA* with EHT Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Fish V.L.
  2. Johnson M.D.
  3. Doeleman S.S.
  4. Broderick A.E.
  5. Psaltis D.,Lu R.-S.
  6. Akiyama K.
  7. Alef W.
  8. Algaba J.C.
  9. Asada K.
  10. Beaudoin C.,Bertarini A.
  11. Blackburn L.
  12. Blundell R.
  13. Bower G.C.
  14. Brinkerink C.,Cappallo R.
  15. Chael A.A.
  16. Chamberlin R.
  17. Chan C.-K.
  18. Crew G.B.
  19. Dexter J.,Dexter M.
  20. Dzib S.A.
  21. Falcke H.
  22. Freund R.
  23. Friberg P.
  24. Greer C.H.,Gurwell M.A.
  25. Ho P.T.P.
  26. Honma M.
  27. Inoue M.
  28. Johannsen T.
  29. Kim J.,Krichbaum T.P.
  30. Lamb J.
  31. Leon-Tavares J.
  32. Loeb A.
  33. Loinard L.
  34. MacMahon D.,Marrone D.P.
  35. Moran J.M.
  36. Moscibrodzka M.
  37. Ortiz-Leon G.N.
  38. Oyama T.,Ozel F.
  39. Plambeck R.L.
  40. Pradel N.
  41. Primiani R.A.
  42. Rogers A.E.E.,Rosenfeld K.
  43. Rottmann H.
  44. Roy A.L.
  45. Ruszczyk C.
  46. Smythe D.L.
  47. Soohoo J.,Spilker J.
  48. Stone J.
  49. Strittmatter P.
  50. Tilanus R.P.J.
  51. Titus M.,Vertatschitsch L.
  52. Wagner J.
  53. Wardle J.F.C.
  54. Weintroub J.
  55. Woody D.,Wright M.
  56. Yamaguchi P.
  57. Young A.
  58. Young K.H.
  59. Zensus J.A.
  60. Ziurys L.M.
  61. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The Galactic Center black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is a prime observing target for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which can resolve the 1.3mm emission from this source on angular scales comparable to that of the general relativistic shadow. Previous EHT observations have used visibility amplitudes to infer the morphology of the millimeter-wavelength emission. Potentially much richer source information is contained in the phases. We report on 1.3mm phase information on Sgr A* obtained with the EHT on a total of 13 observing nights over four years. Closure phases, which are the sum of visibility phases along a closed triangle of interferometer baselines, are used because they are robust against phase corruptions introduced by instrumentation and the rapidly variable atmosphere. The median closure phase on a triangle including telescopes in California, Hawaii, and Arizona is nonzero. This result conclusively demonstrates that the millimeter emission is asymmetric on scales of a few Schwarzschild radii and can be used to break 180{deg} rotational ambiguities inherent from amplitude data alone. The stability of the sign of the closure phase over most observing nights indicates persistent asymmetry in the image of Sgr A* that is not obscured by refraction due to interstellar electrons along the line of sight.

Keywords
  1. interferometry
  2. millimeter-astronomy
  3. submillimeter-astronomy
  4. milky-way-galaxy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2016ApJ...820...90F
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/820/90
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18200090

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History

2016-07-04T10:18:26Z
Resource record created
2016-07-04T10:18:26Z
Created
2017-01-23T22:00:00Z
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