Robustness and the Event Horizon Telescope: the case of the first image of M87*
Juliusz Doboszewski,
Jamee Elder
Abstract:We examine the justification for taking the Event Horizon Telescope's famous 2019 image to be a reliable representation of the region surrounding a black hole.We argue that it takes the form of a robustness argument, with the resulting image being robust across variation in a range of data-analysis pipelines. We clarify the sense of "robustness" operating here and show how it can account for the reliability of astrophysical inferences, even in cases-like the EHT-where these inferences are based on experiments … Show more
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