PIRSA:23070047

What Can We Learn From Event Horizon Telescope Movies?

Gammie, C. (2023). What Can We Learn From Event Horizon Telescope Movies?. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/23070047

Gammie, Charles. What Can We Learn From Event Horizon Telescope Movies?. Perimeter Institute, Jul. 11, 2023, https://pirsa.org/23070047 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:23070047,
            doi = {10.48660/23070047},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/23070047},
            author = {Gammie, Charles},
            keywords = {Strong Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {What Can We Learn From Event Horizon Telescope Movies?},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2023},
            month = {jul},
            note = {PIRSA:23070047 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Charles Gammie

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has produced images of the black hole in the galaxy M87 and in the center of our galaxy, and I will briefly review what we have learned from the images.  In the near future we expect that repeated visits to M87, or high fidelity images of the galactic center, will produce movies of the turbulent plasma in these sources.  The statistical properties of the movies can be predicted using state-of-the-art numerical simulations.  I will explore what information can be extracted from the movies, especially information about source inclination and black hole spin.

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