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ARISE Science Goals

Primary ARISE Science Goals (as submitted to 2000 decadal survey):
    Supermassive Black Holes and Radio Jets
    • AGN Fueling
    • Relativistic Jet Production
    • Generation of High-Energy Photons
    Accretion Disks and Water Megamasers
    • Masses of Supermassive Black Holes
    • Nature of Megamaser Disks
    • Accretion Processes
    • Geometric Distance Measurements
    Cosmology
    • Gravitational Lens Studies
    • High-Redshift Radio Sources


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