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In the Shadow of the Accretion Disk: Higher Resolution Imaging of the Central Parsec in NGC 4261

  • Authors: Dayton L. Jones, Ann E. Wehrle, B. Glenn Piner, and David L. Meier

Jones et al. 2001 The Astrophysical Journal 553 968.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 10.

Possible geometry of inner few parsecs in NGC 4261, showing the radio jet and counterjet, location of the central black hole, and the inner part of a geometrically thin accretion disk. The angle φ is the full opening angle of the disk, and θ is the angle between the plane of the disk and our line of sight (﹩\theta =90^{\circ }-\mathrm{i}\,﹩nclination angle of dis﹩\mathrm{k}\,\approx \mathrm{a}\,﹩ngle between radio axis and the plane of the sky).

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