Prospects for Improving the Theoretical Uncertainty for Tests of General Relativity with the EHT

arXiv:2606.30753 · astro-ph.HE, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-06-29 · Read on arXiv

Lia Medeiros, George N. Wong, Feryal Ozel

astro-ph.HE, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-06-29

Comments: Submitted to ApJ

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 21× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Event Horizon Telescope — 21× in this paper
• Accretion Flows — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Feature Extraction — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accretion Physics — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Temporal Correlations — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Gravitational Lensing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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• Discretization and Filtering Effects on Black Hole Images Obtained with the Event Horizon Telescope

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