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Main Authors: Satapathy, Kaushik, Psaltis, Dimitrios, Ozel, Feryal, Medeiros, Lia, Dougall, Sean T., Chan, Chi-kwan, Wielgus, Maciek, Prather, Ben S., Wong, George N., Gammie, Charles F., Akiyama, Kazunori, Alberdi, Antxon, Alef, Walter, Algaba, Juan Carlos, Anantua, Richard, Asada, Keiichi, Azulay, Rebecca, Baczko, Anne-Kathrin, Ball, David R., Baloković, Mislav, Barrett, John, Benson, Bradford A., Bintley, Dan, Blackburn, Lindy, Blundell, Raymond, Boland, Wilfred, Bouman, Katherine L., Bower, Geoffrey C., Boyce, Hope A., Bremer, Michael, Brinkerink, Christiaan D., Brissenden, Roger, Britzen, Silke, Broderick, Avery E., Broguiere, Dominique, Bronzwaer, Thomas, Bustamente, Sandra, Byun, Do-Young, Carlstrom, John E., Chael, Andrew, Chatterjee, Koushik, Chatterjee, Shami, Chen, Ming-Tang, Chen, Yongjun, Cho, Ilje, Christian, Pierre, Conway, John E., Cordes, James M., Crawford, Thomas, Crew, Geoffrey B., Osorio, Alejandro Cruz, Cui, Yuzhu, Davelaar, Jordy, De Laurentis, Mariafelicia, Deane, Roger, Dempsey, Jessica T., Desvignes, Gregory, Dexter, Jason, Doeleman, Sheperd S., Eatough, Ralph, Falcke, Heino, Farah, Joseph R., Fish, Vincent, Fomalont, Edward B., Ford, H. Alyson, Fraga-Encinas, Raquel, Friberg, Per, Fromm, Christian M., Fuentes, Antonio, Galison, Peter, García, Roberto, Gentaz, Olivier, Georgiev, Boris, Goddi, Ciriaco, Gold, Roman, Gomez-Ruiz, Arturo I., Gómez, Jose L., Gu, Minfeng, Gurwell, Mark A., Hada, Kazuhiro, Haggard, Daryl, Hecht, Michael, Hesper, Ronald, Ho, Luis C., Ho, Paul T., Honma, Mareki, Huang, Chih-Wei L., Huang, Lei, Hughes, David H., Ikeda, Shiro, Inoue, Makoto, Issaoun, Sara, James, David J., Jannuzi, Buell T., Janssen, Michael, Jeter, Britton, Jiang, Wu, Rosales, Alejandra Jimenez, Johnson, Michael D., Jorstad, Svetlana G., Jung, Taehyun, Karami, Mansour, Karuppusamy, Ramesh, Kawashima, Tomohisa, Keating, Garrett K., Kettenis, Mark, Kim, Dong-Jin, Kim, Jae-Young, Kim, Jongsoo, Kim, Junhan, Kino, Motoki, Koay, Jun Yi, Kofuji, Yutaro, Koch, Patrick M., Koyama, Shoko, Kramer, Carsten, Kramer, Michael, Krichbaum, Thomas P., Kuo, Cheng-Yu, Lauer, Tod R., Lee, Sang-Sung, Levis, Aviad, Li, Yan-Rong, Li, Zhiyuan, Lindqvist, Michael, Lico, Rocco, Lindahl, Greg, Liu, Jun, Liu, Kuo, Liuzzo, Miss Elisabetta, Lo, Wen-Ping, Lobanov, Andrei, Loinard, Laurent, Lonsdale, Colin J., Lu, Rusen, MacDonald, Nicholas R., Mao, Jirong, Marchili, Nicola, Markoff, Sera, Marrone, Daniel, Marscher, Alan P., Marti-Vidal, Ivan, Matsushita, Satoki, Matthews, Lynn, Menten, Karl M., Mizuno, Izumi, Mizuno, Yosuke, Moran, James, Moriyama, Kotaro, Moscibrodzka, Monika, Muller, Cornelia, Mejias, Alejandro M., Musoke, Gibwa, Nagai, Hiroshi, Nagar, Neil M., Nakamura, Masanori, Narayan, Ramesh, Narayanan, Gopal, Natarajan, Iniyan, Nathanail, Antonios, Neilsen, Joey, Neri, Roberto, Ni, Chunchong, Noutsos, Aristeidis, Nowak, Michael A., Okino, Hiroki, Olivares, Hector, Ortiz-Leon, Gisela N., Oyama, Tomoaki, Palumbo, Daniel C., Park, Jongho, Patel, Nimesh A., Pen, Ue-Li, Pesce, Dominic W., Pietu, Vincent, Plambeck, Richard L., PopStefanija, Aleksandar, Porth, Oliver, Potzl, Felix, Preciado-López, Jorge A., Pu, Hung-Yi, Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh, Rao, Ramprasad, Rawlings, Mark, Raymond, Alexander W., Rezzolla, Luciano, Ripperda, Bart, Roelofs, Freek, Rogers, Alan E. E., Ros, Eduardo, Rose, Mel, Roshanineshat, Arash, Rottmann, Helge, Roy, Alan L., Ruszczyk, Chet, Rygl, Kazi, Sanchez, Salvador, Sanchez-Arguelles, David, Sasada, Mahito, Savolainen, Tuomas, Schloerb, F Peter, Schuster, Karl-Friedrich, Shao, Lijing, Shen, Zhi-Qiang, Small, Des, Sohn, Bong Won, SooHoo, Jason, Sun, He, Tazaki, Fumie, Tetarenko, Alexandra J., Tiede, Paul, Tilanus, Remo, Titus, Michael, Toma, Kenji, Torne, Pablo, Traianou, E., Trent, Tyler, Trippe, Sascha, van Bemmel, Ilse, van Langevelde, Huib Jan, van Rossum, Daniel R., Wagner, Jan, Ward-Thompson, Derek, Wardle, John F., Weintroub, Jonathan, Wex, Norbert, Wharton, Robert, Wiik, Kaj, Wu, Qingwen, Yoon, DooSoo, Young, Andre, Young, Ken H., Younsi, Ziri, Yuan, Feng, Yuan, Ye-Fei, Zensus, J. Anton, Zhao, Guang-Yao, Zhao, Shan-Shan
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author Satapathy, Kaushik
Psaltis, Dimitrios
Ozel, Feryal
Medeiros, Lia
Dougall, Sean T.
Chan, Chi-kwan
Wielgus, Maciek
Prather, Ben S.
Wong, George N.
Gammie, Charles F.
Akiyama, Kazunori
Alberdi, Antxon
Alef, Walter
Algaba, Juan Carlos
Anantua, Richard
Asada, Keiichi
Azulay, Rebecca
Baczko, Anne-Kathrin
Ball, David R.
Baloković, Mislav
Barrett, John
Benson, Bradford A.
Bintley, Dan
Blackburn, Lindy
Blundell, Raymond
Boland, Wilfred
Bouman, Katherine L.
Bower, Geoffrey C.
Boyce, Hope A.
Bremer, Michael
Brinkerink, Christiaan D.
Brissenden, Roger
Britzen, Silke
Broderick, Avery E.
Broguiere, Dominique
Bronzwaer, Thomas
Bustamente, Sandra
Byun, Do-Young
Carlstrom, John E.
Chael, Andrew
Chatterjee, Koushik
Chatterjee, Shami
Chen, Ming-Tang
Chen, Yongjun
Cho, Ilje
Christian, Pierre
Conway, John E.
Cordes, James M.
Crawford, Thomas
Crew, Geoffrey B.
Osorio, Alejandro Cruz
Cui, Yuzhu
Davelaar, Jordy
De Laurentis, Mariafelicia
Deane, Roger
Dempsey, Jessica T.
Desvignes, Gregory
Dexter, Jason
Doeleman, Sheperd S.
Eatough, Ralph
Falcke, Heino
Farah, Joseph R.
Fish, Vincent
Fomalont, Edward B.
Ford, H. Alyson
Fraga-Encinas, Raquel
Friberg, Per
Fromm, Christian M.
Fuentes, Antonio
Galison, Peter
García, Roberto
Gentaz, Olivier
Georgiev, Boris
Goddi, Ciriaco
Gold, Roman
Gomez-Ruiz, Arturo I.
Gómez, Jose L.
Gu, Minfeng
Gurwell, Mark A.
Hada, Kazuhiro
Haggard, Daryl
Hecht, Michael
Hesper, Ronald
Ho, Luis C.
Ho, Paul T.
Honma, Mareki
Huang, Chih-Wei L.
Huang, Lei
Hughes, David H.
Ikeda, Shiro
Inoue, Makoto
Issaoun, Sara
James, David J.
Jannuzi, Buell T.
Janssen, Michael
Jeter, Britton
Jiang, Wu
Rosales, Alejandra Jimenez
Johnson, Michael D.
Jorstad, Svetlana G.
Jung, Taehyun
Karami, Mansour
Karuppusamy, Ramesh
Kawashima, Tomohisa
Keating, Garrett K.
Kettenis, Mark
Kim, Dong-Jin
Kim, Jae-Young
Kim, Jongsoo
Kim, Junhan
Kino, Motoki
Koay, Jun Yi
Kofuji, Yutaro
Koch, Patrick M.
Koyama, Shoko
Kramer, Carsten
Kramer, Michael
Krichbaum, Thomas P.
Kuo, Cheng-Yu
Lauer, Tod R.
Lee, Sang-Sung
Levis, Aviad
Li, Yan-Rong
Li, Zhiyuan
Lindqvist, Michael
Lico, Rocco
Lindahl, Greg
Liu, Jun
Liu, Kuo
Liuzzo, Miss Elisabetta
Lo, Wen-Ping
Lobanov, Andrei
Loinard, Laurent
Lonsdale, Colin J.
Lu, Rusen
MacDonald, Nicholas R.
Mao, Jirong
Marchili, Nicola
Markoff, Sera
Marrone, Daniel
Marscher, Alan P.
Marti-Vidal, Ivan
Matsushita, Satoki
Matthews, Lynn
Menten, Karl M.
Mizuno, Izumi
Mizuno, Yosuke
Moran, James
Moriyama, Kotaro
Moscibrodzka, Monika
Muller, Cornelia
Mejias, Alejandro M.
Musoke, Gibwa
Nagai, Hiroshi
Nagar, Neil M.
Nakamura, Masanori
Narayan, Ramesh
Narayanan, Gopal
Natarajan, Iniyan
Nathanail, Antonios
Neilsen, Joey
Neri, Roberto
Ni, Chunchong
Noutsos, Aristeidis
Nowak, Michael A.
Okino, Hiroki
Olivares, Hector
Ortiz-Leon, Gisela N.
Oyama, Tomoaki
Palumbo, Daniel C.
Park, Jongho
Patel, Nimesh A.
Pen, Ue-Li
Pesce, Dominic W.
Pietu, Vincent
Plambeck, Richard L.
PopStefanija, Aleksandar
Porth, Oliver
Potzl, Felix
Preciado-López, Jorge A.
Pu, Hung-Yi
Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh
Rao, Ramprasad
Rawlings, Mark
Raymond, Alexander W.
Rezzolla, Luciano
Ripperda, Bart
Roelofs, Freek
Rogers, Alan E. E.
Ros, Eduardo
Rose, Mel
Roshanineshat, Arash
Rottmann, Helge
Roy, Alan L.
Ruszczyk, Chet
Rygl, Kazi
Sanchez, Salvador
Sanchez-Arguelles, David
Sasada, Mahito
Savolainen, Tuomas
Schloerb, F Peter
Schuster, Karl-Friedrich
Shao, Lijing
Shen, Zhi-Qiang
Small, Des
Sohn, Bong Won
SooHoo, Jason
Sun, He
Tazaki, Fumie
Tetarenko, Alexandra J.
Tiede, Paul
Tilanus, Remo
Titus, Michael
Toma, Kenji
Torne, Pablo
Traianou, E.
Trent, Tyler
Trippe, Sascha
van Bemmel, Ilse
van Langevelde, Huib Jan
van Rossum, Daniel R.
Wagner, Jan
Ward-Thompson, Derek
Wardle, John F.
Weintroub, Jonathan
Wex, Norbert
Wharton, Robert
Wiik, Kaj
Wu, Qingwen
Yoon, DooSoo
Young, Andre
Young, Ken H.
Younsi, Ziri
Yuan, Feng
Yuan, Ye-Fei
Zensus, J. Anton
Zhao, Guang-Yao
Zhao, Shan-Shan
author_facet Satapathy, Kaushik
Psaltis, Dimitrios
Ozel, Feryal
Medeiros, Lia
Dougall, Sean T.
Chan, Chi-kwan
Wielgus, Maciek
Prather, Ben S.
Wong, George N.
Gammie, Charles F.
Akiyama, Kazunori
Alberdi, Antxon
Alef, Walter
Algaba, Juan Carlos
Anantua, Richard
Asada, Keiichi
Azulay, Rebecca
Baczko, Anne-Kathrin
Ball, David R.
Baloković, Mislav
Barrett, John
Benson, Bradford A.
Bintley, Dan
Blackburn, Lindy
Blundell, Raymond
Boland, Wilfred
Bouman, Katherine L.
Bower, Geoffrey C.
Boyce, Hope A.
Bremer, Michael
Brinkerink, Christiaan D.
Brissenden, Roger
Britzen, Silke
Broderick, Avery E.
Broguiere, Dominique
Bronzwaer, Thomas
Bustamente, Sandra
Byun, Do-Young
Carlstrom, John E.
Chael, Andrew
Chatterjee, Koushik
Chatterjee, Shami
Chen, Ming-Tang
Chen, Yongjun
Cho, Ilje
Christian, Pierre
Conway, John E.
Cordes, James M.
Crawford, Thomas
Crew, Geoffrey B.
Osorio, Alejandro Cruz
Cui, Yuzhu
Davelaar, Jordy
De Laurentis, Mariafelicia
Deane, Roger
Dempsey, Jessica T.
Desvignes, Gregory
Dexter, Jason
Doeleman, Sheperd S.
Eatough, Ralph
Falcke, Heino
Farah, Joseph R.
Fish, Vincent
Fomalont, Edward B.
Ford, H. Alyson
Fraga-Encinas, Raquel
Friberg, Per
Fromm, Christian M.
Fuentes, Antonio
Galison, Peter
García, Roberto
Gentaz, Olivier
Georgiev, Boris
Goddi, Ciriaco
Gold, Roman
Gomez-Ruiz, Arturo I.
Gómez, Jose L.
Gu, Minfeng
Gurwell, Mark A.
Hada, Kazuhiro
Haggard, Daryl
Hecht, Michael
Hesper, Ronald
Ho, Luis C.
Ho, Paul T.
Honma, Mareki
Huang, Chih-Wei L.
Huang, Lei
Hughes, David H.
Ikeda, Shiro
Inoue, Makoto
Issaoun, Sara
James, David J.
Jannuzi, Buell T.
Janssen, Michael
Jeter, Britton
Jiang, Wu
Rosales, Alejandra Jimenez
Johnson, Michael D.
Jorstad, Svetlana G.
Jung, Taehyun
Karami, Mansour
Karuppusamy, Ramesh
Kawashima, Tomohisa
Keating, Garrett K.
Kettenis, Mark
Kim, Dong-Jin
Kim, Jae-Young
Kim, Jongsoo
Kim, Junhan
Kino, Motoki
Koay, Jun Yi
Kofuji, Yutaro
Koch, Patrick M.
Koyama, Shoko
Kramer, Carsten
Kramer, Michael
Krichbaum, Thomas P.
Kuo, Cheng-Yu
Lauer, Tod R.
Lee, Sang-Sung
Levis, Aviad
Li, Yan-Rong
Li, Zhiyuan
Lindqvist, Michael
Lico, Rocco
Lindahl, Greg
Liu, Jun
Liu, Kuo
Liuzzo, Miss Elisabetta
Lo, Wen-Ping
Lobanov, Andrei
Loinard, Laurent
Lonsdale, Colin J.
Lu, Rusen
MacDonald, Nicholas R.
Mao, Jirong
Marchili, Nicola
Markoff, Sera
Marrone, Daniel
Marscher, Alan P.
Marti-Vidal, Ivan
Matsushita, Satoki
Matthews, Lynn
Menten, Karl M.
Mizuno, Izumi
Mizuno, Yosuke
Moran, James
Moriyama, Kotaro
Moscibrodzka, Monika
Muller, Cornelia
Mejias, Alejandro M.
Musoke, Gibwa
Nagai, Hiroshi
Nagar, Neil M.
Nakamura, Masanori
Narayan, Ramesh
Narayanan, Gopal
Natarajan, Iniyan
Nathanail, Antonios
Neilsen, Joey
Neri, Roberto
Ni, Chunchong
Noutsos, Aristeidis
Nowak, Michael A.
Okino, Hiroki
Olivares, Hector
Ortiz-Leon, Gisela N.
Oyama, Tomoaki
Palumbo, Daniel C.
Park, Jongho
Patel, Nimesh A.
Pen, Ue-Li
Pesce, Dominic W.
Pietu, Vincent
Plambeck, Richard L.
PopStefanija, Aleksandar
Porth, Oliver
Potzl, Felix
Preciado-López, Jorge A.
Pu, Hung-Yi
Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh
Rao, Ramprasad
Rawlings, Mark
Raymond, Alexander W.
Rezzolla, Luciano
Ripperda, Bart
Roelofs, Freek
Rogers, Alan E. E.
Ros, Eduardo
Rose, Mel
Roshanineshat, Arash
Rottmann, Helge
Roy, Alan L.
Ruszczyk, Chet
Rygl, Kazi
Sanchez, Salvador
Sanchez-Arguelles, David
Sasada, Mahito
Savolainen, Tuomas
Schloerb, F Peter
Schuster, Karl-Friedrich
Shao, Lijing
Shen, Zhi-Qiang
Small, Des
Sohn, Bong Won
SooHoo, Jason
Sun, He
Tazaki, Fumie
Tetarenko, Alexandra J.
Tiede, Paul
Tilanus, Remo
Titus, Michael
Toma, Kenji
Torne, Pablo
Traianou, E.
Trent, Tyler
Trippe, Sascha
van Bemmel, Ilse
van Langevelde, Huib Jan
van Rossum, Daniel R.
Wagner, Jan
Ward-Thompson, Derek
Wardle, John F.
Weintroub, Jonathan
Wex, Norbert
Wharton, Robert
Wiik, Kaj
Wu, Qingwen
Yoon, DooSoo
Young, Andre
Young, Ken H.
Younsi, Ziri
Yuan, Feng
Yuan, Ye-Fei
Zensus, J. Anton
Zhao, Guang-Yao
Zhao, Shan-Shan
contents The black-hole images obtained with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are expected to be variable at the dynamical timescale near their horizons. For the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, this timescale (5-61 days) is comparable to the 6-day extent of the 2017 EHT observations. Closure phases along baseline triangles are robust interferometric observables that are sensitive to the expected structural changes of the images but are free of station-based atmospheric and instrumental errors. We explored the day-to-day variability in closure phase measurements on all six linearly independent non-trivial baseline triangles that can be formed from the 2017 observations. We showed that three triangles exhibit very low day-to-day variability, with a dispersion of $\sim3-5^\circ$. The only triangles that exhibit substantially higher variability ($\sim90-180^\circ$) are the ones with baselines that cross visibility amplitude minima on the $u-v$ plane, as expected from theoretical modeling. We used two sets of General Relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations to explore the dependence of the predicted variability on various black-hole and accretion-flow parameters. We found that changing the magnetic field configuration, electron temperature model, or black-hole spin has a marginal effect on the model consistency with the observed level of variability. On the other hand, the most discriminating image characteristic of models is the fractional width of the bright ring of emission. Models that best reproduce the observed small level of variability are characterized by thin ring-like images with structures dominated by gravitational lensing effects and thus least affected by turbulence in the accreting plasmas.
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spellingShingle The Variability of the Black-Hole Image in M87 at the Dynamical Time Scale
Satapathy, Kaushik
Psaltis, Dimitrios
Ozel, Feryal
Medeiros, Lia
Dougall, Sean T.
Chan, Chi-kwan
Wielgus, Maciek
Prather, Ben S.
Wong, George N.
Gammie, Charles F.
Akiyama, Kazunori
Alberdi, Antxon
Alef, Walter
Algaba, Juan Carlos
Anantua, Richard
Asada, Keiichi
Azulay, Rebecca
Baczko, Anne-Kathrin
Ball, David R.
Baloković, Mislav
Barrett, John
Benson, Bradford A.
Bintley, Dan
Blackburn, Lindy
Blundell, Raymond
Boland, Wilfred
Bouman, Katherine L.
Bower, Geoffrey C.
Boyce, Hope A.
Bremer, Michael
Brinkerink, Christiaan D.
Brissenden, Roger
Britzen, Silke
Broderick, Avery E.
Broguiere, Dominique
Bronzwaer, Thomas
Bustamente, Sandra
Byun, Do-Young
Carlstrom, John E.
Chael, Andrew
Chatterjee, Koushik
Chatterjee, Shami
Chen, Ming-Tang
Chen, Yongjun
Cho, Ilje
Christian, Pierre
Conway, John E.
Cordes, James M.
Crawford, Thomas
Crew, Geoffrey B.
Osorio, Alejandro Cruz
Cui, Yuzhu
Davelaar, Jordy
De Laurentis, Mariafelicia
Deane, Roger
Dempsey, Jessica T.
Desvignes, Gregory
Dexter, Jason
Doeleman, Sheperd S.
Eatough, Ralph
Falcke, Heino
Farah, Joseph R.
Fish, Vincent
Fomalont, Edward B.
Ford, H. Alyson
Fraga-Encinas, Raquel
Friberg, Per
Fromm, Christian M.
Fuentes, Antonio
Galison, Peter
García, Roberto
Gentaz, Olivier
Georgiev, Boris
Goddi, Ciriaco
Gold, Roman
Gomez-Ruiz, Arturo I.
Gómez, Jose L.
Gu, Minfeng
Gurwell, Mark A.
Hada, Kazuhiro
Haggard, Daryl
Hecht, Michael
Hesper, Ronald
Ho, Luis C.
Ho, Paul T.
Honma, Mareki
Huang, Chih-Wei L.
Huang, Lei
Hughes, David H.
Ikeda, Shiro
Inoue, Makoto
Issaoun, Sara
James, David J.
Jannuzi, Buell T.
Janssen, Michael
Jeter, Britton
Jiang, Wu
Rosales, Alejandra Jimenez
Johnson, Michael D.
Jorstad, Svetlana G.
Jung, Taehyun
Karami, Mansour
Karuppusamy, Ramesh
Kawashima, Tomohisa
Keating, Garrett K.
Kettenis, Mark
Kim, Dong-Jin
Kim, Jae-Young
Kim, Jongsoo
Kim, Junhan
Kino, Motoki
Koay, Jun Yi
Kofuji, Yutaro
Koch, Patrick M.
Koyama, Shoko
Kramer, Carsten
Kramer, Michael
Krichbaum, Thomas P.
Kuo, Cheng-Yu
Lauer, Tod R.
Lee, Sang-Sung
Levis, Aviad
Li, Yan-Rong
Li, Zhiyuan
Lindqvist, Michael
Lico, Rocco
Lindahl, Greg
Liu, Jun
Liu, Kuo
Liuzzo, Miss Elisabetta
Lo, Wen-Ping
Lobanov, Andrei
Loinard, Laurent
Lonsdale, Colin J.
Lu, Rusen
MacDonald, Nicholas R.
Mao, Jirong
Marchili, Nicola
Markoff, Sera
Marrone, Daniel
Marscher, Alan P.
Marti-Vidal, Ivan
Matsushita, Satoki
Matthews, Lynn
Menten, Karl M.
Mizuno, Izumi
Mizuno, Yosuke
Moran, James
Moriyama, Kotaro
Moscibrodzka, Monika
Muller, Cornelia
Mejias, Alejandro M.
Musoke, Gibwa
Nagai, Hiroshi
Nagar, Neil M.
Nakamura, Masanori
Narayan, Ramesh
Narayanan, Gopal
Natarajan, Iniyan
Nathanail, Antonios
Neilsen, Joey
Neri, Roberto
Ni, Chunchong
Noutsos, Aristeidis
Nowak, Michael A.
Okino, Hiroki
Olivares, Hector
Ortiz-Leon, Gisela N.
Oyama, Tomoaki
Palumbo, Daniel C.
Park, Jongho
Patel, Nimesh A.
Pen, Ue-Li
Pesce, Dominic W.
Pietu, Vincent
Plambeck, Richard L.
PopStefanija, Aleksandar
Porth, Oliver
Potzl, Felix
Preciado-López, Jorge A.
Pu, Hung-Yi
Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh
Rao, Ramprasad
Rawlings, Mark
Raymond, Alexander W.
Rezzolla, Luciano
Ripperda, Bart
Roelofs, Freek
Rogers, Alan E. E.
Ros, Eduardo
Rose, Mel
Roshanineshat, Arash
Rottmann, Helge
Roy, Alan L.
Ruszczyk, Chet
Rygl, Kazi
Sanchez, Salvador
Sanchez-Arguelles, David
Sasada, Mahito
Savolainen, Tuomas
Schloerb, F Peter
Schuster, Karl-Friedrich
Shao, Lijing
Shen, Zhi-Qiang
Small, Des
Sohn, Bong Won
SooHoo, Jason
Sun, He
Tazaki, Fumie
Tetarenko, Alexandra J.
Tiede, Paul
Tilanus, Remo
Titus, Michael
Toma, Kenji
Torne, Pablo
Traianou, E.
Trent, Tyler
Trippe, Sascha
van Bemmel, Ilse
van Langevelde, Huib Jan
van Rossum, Daniel R.
Wagner, Jan
Ward-Thompson, Derek
Wardle, John F.
Weintroub, Jonathan
Wex, Norbert
Wharton, Robert
Wiik, Kaj
Wu, Qingwen
Yoon, DooSoo
Young, Andre
Young, Ken H.
Younsi, Ziri
Yuan, Feng
Yuan, Ye-Fei
Zensus, J. Anton
Zhao, Guang-Yao
Zhao, Shan-Shan
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
The black-hole images obtained with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are expected to be variable at the dynamical timescale near their horizons. For the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, this timescale (5-61 days) is comparable to the 6-day extent of the 2017 EHT observations. Closure phases along baseline triangles are robust interferometric observables that are sensitive to the expected structural changes of the images but are free of station-based atmospheric and instrumental errors. We explored the day-to-day variability in closure phase measurements on all six linearly independent non-trivial baseline triangles that can be formed from the 2017 observations. We showed that three triangles exhibit very low day-to-day variability, with a dispersion of $\sim3-5^\circ$. The only triangles that exhibit substantially higher variability ($\sim90-180^\circ$) are the ones with baselines that cross visibility amplitude minima on the $u-v$ plane, as expected from theoretical modeling. We used two sets of General Relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations to explore the dependence of the predicted variability on various black-hole and accretion-flow parameters. We found that changing the magnetic field configuration, electron temperature model, or black-hole spin has a marginal effect on the model consistency with the observed level of variability. On the other hand, the most discriminating image characteristic of models is the fractional width of the bright ring of emission. Models that best reproduce the observed small level of variability are characterized by thin ring-like images with structures dominated by gravitational lensing effects and thus least affected by turbulence in the accreting plasmas.
title The Variability of the Black-Hole Image in M87 at the Dynamical Time Scale
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01317