The Beyond Einstein Program in NASA's Office of Space Science Structure and Evolution of the Universe theme spells out the top level scientific requirements for a Black Hole Imager in its strategic plan. The MAXIM mission will provide better than one tenth of a microarcsecond imaging in the X-ray band in order to satisfy these requirements. We will overview the driving requirements to achieve these goals and ultimately resolve the event horizon of a supermassive black hole. We will present the current status of this effort that includes a study of a baseline design as well as two alternative approaches.
MAXIM: The Blackhole Imager
SPIE Meeting ; 2004 ; Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
2004-01-01
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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