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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
2:00 – 2:00 PM

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New EHT images of Sagittarius A* in polarized light

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The new EHT results are now available, which show the first EHT images of Sagittarius A* in polarized light. You can read the CfA press release here: https://cfa.harvard.edu/news/astronomers-unveil-strong-magnetic-fields-spiraling-edge-milky-ways-central-black-hole
As a reminder, there will be a special colloquium on these results today in Phillips at 2pm.  The colloquium will feature 5 speakers who played leading roles in this project: Sara IssaounAngelo RicarteFreek RoelofsAvery Broderick, and Michi Baubock. Please feel free to reach out to them directly with any questions!
In addition, many current and recent CfA members have contributed to making the results possible, including: Richard Anantua, Lindy Blackburn, Ray Blundell, Roger Brissenden, Dominic Chang, Koushik Chatterjee, Nick Conroy, Shep Doeleman, Razi Emami, Peter Galison, Mark Gurwell, Kari Haworth, Sara Issaoun, Michael Johnson, Karto Keating, Greg Lindahl, Jim Moran, Ramesh Narayan, Iniyan Natarajan, Daniel Palumbo, Nimesh Patel, Dom Pesce, Ram Rao, Alex Raymond, Angelo Ricarte, Freek Roelofs, Jonathan Schonfeld, Paul Tiede, Jonathan Weintroub, Paul Yamaguchi, Ken Young, and Wei Yu.

 

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024 2:00 - 2:00 PM

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BHI Publication

Expanding Sgr A* dynamical imaging capabilities with an African extension to the Event Horizon Telescope

April 1, 2023
Kantzas, D.; Markoff, S.; Lucchini, M.; Ceccobello, C.; Chatterjee, K.
Astrophysical jets are relativistic outflows that remain collimated for remarkably many orders of magnitude. Despite decades of research, the…
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