Characterizing and Mitigating Intraday Variability: Reconstructing Source Structure in Accreting Black Holes with mm-VLBI
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022
The extraordinary physical resolution afforded by the Event Horizon Telescope has opened a window onto the astrophysical phenomena unfolding on horizon scales in two known black holes, M87* and Sgr A*. However, with this leap in resolution has come a new set of practical complications. Sgr A* exhibits intraday variability that violates the assumptions underlying Earth aperture synthesis, limiting traditional image reconstruction methods to short timescales and data sets with very sparse (u, v) coverage. We present a new set of tools to detect and mitigate this variability. We develop a data-driven, model-agnostic procedure to detect and characterize the spatial structure of intraday variability. This method is calibrated against a large set of mock data sets, producing an empirical estimator of the spatial power spectrum of the brightness fluctuations. We present a novel Bayesian noise modeling algorithm that simultaneously reconstructs an average image and statistical measure of the fluctuations about it using a parameterized form for the excess variance in the complex visibilities not otherwise explained by the statistical errors. These methods are validated using a variety of simulated data, including general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations appropriate for Sgr A* and M87*. We find that the reconstructed source structure and variability are robust to changes in the underlying image model. We apply these methods to the 2017 EHT observations of M87*, finding evidence for variability across the EHT observing campaign. The variability mitigation strategies presented are widely applicable to very long baseline interferometry observations of variable sources generally, for which they provide a data-informed averaging procedure and natural characterization of inter-epoch image consistency.
Författare
Avery E. Broderick
University of Waterloo
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Roman Gold
Syddansk Universitet
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Boris Georgiev
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of Waterloo
Dominic W. Pesce
Harvard University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Paul Tiede
Harvard University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Chunchong Ni
University of Waterloo
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Kotaro Moriyama
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Kazunori Akiyama
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Harvard University
Antxon Alberdi
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Walter Alef
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Juan Carlos Algaba
University of Malaya
Richard Anantua
Harvard University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
University of Texas at San Antonio
Keiichi Asada
Academia Sinica
Rebecca Azulay
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Universitat de Valencia
Uwe Bach
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Anne-Kathrin Baczko
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
David Ball
University of Arizona
Mislav Balokovic
Yale University
John Barrett
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Michi Baubock
University of Illinois
Bradford A. Benson
University of Chicago
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Dan Bintley
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
East Asian Observatory
Lindy Blackburn
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
Raymond Blundell
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Katherine L. Bouman
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Geoffrey C. Bower
University of Hawaii
Academia Sinica
Hope Boyce
McGill University
Michael Bremer
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Christiaan D. Brinkerink
Radboud Universiteit
Roger Brissenden
Harvard University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Silke Britzen
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Dominique Broguiere
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Thomas Bronzwaer
Radboud Universiteit
Sandra Bustamante
University of Massachusetts
Do-Young Byun
University of Science and Technology (UST)
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
John E. Carlstrom
University of Chicago
Chiara Ceccobello
Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Astronomi och plasmafysik
Andrew Chael
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Princeton University
Chi-kwan Chan
University of Arizona
Koushik Chatterjee
Harvard University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Shami Chatterjee
Cornell University
Ming-Tang Chen
Academia Sinica
Yongjun Chen
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaopeng Cheng
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
Ilje Cho
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Pierre Christian
Fairfield University
Nicholas S. Conroy
University of Illinois
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
John Conway
Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Onsala rymdobservatorium
James M. Cordes
Cornell University
Thomas M. Crawford
University of Chicago
Geoffrey B. Crew
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Alejandro Cruz-Osorio
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Yuzhu Cui
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Jordy Davelaar
Flatiron Institute
Columbia University
Radboud Universiteit
Mariafelicia De Laurentis
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Roger Deane
Rhodes University
University of Witwatersrand
Universiteit van Pretoria
Jessica Dempsey
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
East Asian Observatory
Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON)
Gregory Desvignes
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Université Paris Descartes
Jason Dexter
University of Colorado at Boulder
Vedant Dhruv
University of Illinois
Sheperd S. Doeleman
Harvard University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Sean Dougal
University of Arizona
Sergio A. Dzib
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Ralph P. Eatough
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Razieh Emami
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Heino Falcke
Radboud Universiteit
Joseph Farah
University of California at Santa Barbara
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network
Vincent L. Fish
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Ed Fomalont
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
H. Alyson Ford
University of Arizona
Raquel Fraga-Encinas
Radboud Universiteit
William T. Freeman
Google Inc.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Per Friberg
East Asian Observatory
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
Christian M. Fromm
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Antonio Fuentes
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Peter Galison
Harvard University
Charles F. Gammie
University of Illinois
Roberto Garcia
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Olivier Gentaz
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Ciriaco Goddi
Universita degli Studi di Cagliari
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Gomez-Ruiz
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrońica
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia Mexico
Jose L. Gomez
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Minfeng Gu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mark Gurwell
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Kazuhiro Hada
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Daryl Haggard
McGill University
Kari Haworth
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Michael H. Hecht
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Ronald Hesper
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Dirk Heumann
University of Arizona
Luis C. Ho
Beijing University of Technology
Paul Ho
Academia Sinica
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
Mareki Honma
University of Tokyo
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Chih-Wei L. Huang
Academia Sinica
Lei Huang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
David H. Hughes
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrońica
Shiro Ikeda
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
University of Tokyo
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
C. M. Violette Impellizzeri
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Universiteit Leiden
Makoto Inoue
Academia Sinica
Sara Issaoun
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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University of Arizona
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Academia Sinica
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Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Radboud Universiteit
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Harvard University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Saint Petersburg State University - Spsu
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Joshi
University of Illinois
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Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
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University of Tokyo
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Jae-Young Kim
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
Kyungpook National University
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Jongsoo Kim
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
Junhan Kim
University of Arizona
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Motoki Kino
Kogakuin University of Technology and Engineering
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Jun Yi Koay
Academia Sinica
Prashant Kocherlakota
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Yutaro Kofuji
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
University of Tokyo
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Academia Sinica
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Academia Sinica
Niigata University
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Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
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Radboud Universiteit
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National Optical Astronomy Observatory
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University of Illinois
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Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
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Chinese University of Hong Kong
Aviad Levis
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
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Nanjing University
Rocco Lico
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Onsala rymdobservatorium
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Italian ALMA Regional Centre
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Villanova University
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Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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Washington University in St. Louis
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Sejong University
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University of Tokyo
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Academia Sinica
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James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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University of Toronto
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University of California at Berkeley
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University College Cork
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University of Illinois
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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
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National Taiwan Normal University
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Gemini Observatory North
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Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
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Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
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Hiroshima University
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Tokyo Institute of Technology
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University of Arizona
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University of Massachusetts
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Beijing University of Technology
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Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
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Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
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Texas Tech University at Lubbock
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University of Arizona
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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University of Arizona
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Seoul National University
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University of Illinois
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Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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Radboud Universiteit
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Princeton University
Institute for Advanced Study
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Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Universiteit Van Amsterdam
Andre Young
Radboud Universiteit
Ken Young
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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University College London (UCL)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Feng Yuan
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ye-Fei Yuan
University of Science and Technology of China
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J. Anton Zensus
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Bard College
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Chinese Academy of Sciences
Astrophysical Journal Letters
2041-8205 (ISSN) 2041-8213 (eISSN)
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DOI
10.3847/2041-8213/ac6584