The Event Horizon Explorer mission concept

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  • Peter L. Kurczynski
  • Michael D. Johnson
  • Sheperd S. Doeleman
  • Kari Haworth
  • Eliad Peretz
  • Tirupati Kumara Sridharan
  • Byran Bilyeu
  • Lindy Blackburn
  • Don Boroson
  • Alexandra Brosius
  • Richard Butler
  • Dave Caplan
  • Koushik Chatterjee
  • Peter Cheimets
  • Thomas M. Essinger-Hileman
  • Peter Galison
  • Ronald Gamble
  • Shahar Hadar
  • Tiffany Hoerbelt
  • Hua Jiao
  • Jens Kauffmann
  • Robert Lafon
  • Chung-Pei Ma
  • Gary Melnick
  • Nathan R. Newbury
  • Scott Noble
  • Daniel Palumbo
  • Lenny Paritsky
  • Dominic Pesce
  • Leonid Petrov
  • Jeff Piepmeier
  • Christopher J. Roberts
  • Bryon Robinson
  • Curt Shieler
  • Jeffrey Small
  • Neal Spellmeyer
  • Paul Tiede
  • Jaye Verniero
  • Jade Wang
  • Maciek Wielgus
  • Ed Wollack
  • George N. Wong
  • Guangning Yang

The Event Horizon Explorer (EHE) is a mission concept to extend the Event Horizon Telescope via an additional space-based node. We provide highlights and overview of a concept study to explore the feasibility of such a mission. We present science goals and objectives, which include studying the immediate environment around supermassive black holes, and focus on critical enabling technologies and engineering challenges. We provide an assessment of their technological readiness and overall suitability for a NASA Medium Explorer (MIDEX) class mission.

Original languageEnglish
Article number12100M
JournalProceedings of SPIE
Volume12180
Number of pages10
ISSN0277-786X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Aug 2022
EventConference on Space Telescopes and Instrumentation - Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave - Montreal, Canada
Duration: 17 Jul 202222 Jul 2022

Conference

ConferenceConference on Space Telescopes and Instrumentation - Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
CountryCanada
CityMontreal
Period17/07/202222/07/2022

    Research areas

  • SUPERMASSIVE BLACK-HOLE

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