Event-horizon-scale structure in the supermassive black hole candidate at the Galactic Centre

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7209, 2008, Pages 78-80

  Doeleman, Sheperd S ^a   Weintroub, Jonathan ^b   Rogers, Alan E E ^a   Plambeck, Richard ^c   Freund, Robert ^d   Tilanus, Remo P J ^e,f   Friberg, Per ^e   Ziurys, Lucy M ^d   Moran, James M ^b   Corey, Brian ^a   Young, Ken H ^b   Smythe, Daniel L ^a   Titus, Michael ^a   Marrone, Daniel P ^g,h   Cappallo, Roger J ^a   Bock, Douglas C J ⁱ   Bower, Geoffrey C ^c   Chamberlin, Richard ^j   Davis, Gary R ^e   Krichbaum, Thomas P ^k   Lamb, James ^l   Maness, Holly ^c   Niell, Arthur E ^a   Roy, Alan ^k   Strittmatter, Peter ^d   Werthimer, Daniel ^m   Whitney, Alan R ^a   Woody, David ^l   more..

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research   (Netherlands)

^g NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

ⁱ CARMA   (United States)

^j Caltech Submillimeter Observatory   (United States)

^k MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^l CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; GRAVITY FIELD; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIO WAVE; WAVE SCATTERING; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; GRAVITY; INFRARED RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOFREQUENCY; X RAY;

SAGITTARIUS;

EID: 51349123030     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07245     Document Type: Article

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