ngVLA Key Science Goal 5 Understanding the Formation and Evolution of Black Holes in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy

Date Issued
2019
Author(s)
Lazio, T. Joseph W.
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Alatalo, Katherine
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Blecha, Laura
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Boizelle, Benjamin
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Bower, Geoffrey C.
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Braatz, James
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Bogdanovic, Tamara
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Brisken, Walter
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Burke-Spolaor, Sarah
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Carbone, Dario
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Chomiuk, Laura
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Civano, Francesca M.
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Comerford, Julia
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Condon, James
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Coppejans, Deanne
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Corsi, Alessandra
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Darling, Jeremiah K.
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Davis, Timothy A.
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Frail, Dale A.
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Hall, Kirsten R.
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Hallinan, Gregg
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Harwood, Jeremy
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Kharb, Preeti
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Kimball, Amy
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Kirkpatrick, Allison
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Kording, E. G.
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Lacy, Mark
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Lazzati, Davide
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Lister, Matthew L.
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Liu, Xin
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Maccarone, Thomas J.
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Metzger, Brian
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Miller-Jones, J. C. A.
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Nyland, K. E.
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O'Shaughnessy, Richard
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Owen, Benjamin
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Patil, Pallavi
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Pesce, Dominic
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Plotkin, Richard M.
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Ravi, Vikram
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Reid, Mark
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Reines, Amy
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Rujopakarn, Wiphu
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Rupen, Michael P.
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Sand, David
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Shen, Yue
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Simon, Joseph
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Sivakoff, Gregory R.
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Strader, Jay
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Taylor, Greg B.
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Taylor, Stephen
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van Velzen, Sjoert
Abstract
The next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) will be a powerful telescope for finding and studying black holes across the entire mass range. High-resolution imaging abilities will allow the separation of low-luminosity black holes in the local Universe from background sources, thereby providing critical constraints on the mass function, formation, and growth of black holes. Its combination of sensitivity and angular resolution will provide new constraints on the physics of black hole accretion and jet formation. Combined with facilities across the spectrum and gravitational wave observatories, the ngVLA will provide crucial constraints on the interaction of black holes with their environments, with specific implications for the relationship between evolution of galaxies and the emission of gravitational waves from in-spiraling supermassive black holes and potential implications for stellar mass and intermediate mass black holes. The ngVLA will identify the radio counterparts to transient sources discovered by electromagnetic, gravitational wave, and neutrino observatories, and its high-resolution, fast-mapping capabilities will make it the preferred instrument to pinpoint electromagnetic counterparts to events such as supermassive black hole mergers. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. Part of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Coverage
American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #233
Volume
233
Start page
361.25
Conferenece
233 Meeting of American Astronomical Society
Conferenece place
Seattle, Washington
Conferenece date
6–10 January, 2019
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2019AAS...23336125L
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