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Parabolic Jets from the Spinning Black Hole in M87

  • Authors: Masanori Nakamura, Keiichi Asada, Kazuhiro Hada, Hung-Yi Pu, Scott Noble, Chihyin Tseng, Kenji Toma, Motoki Kino, Hiroshi Nagai, Kazuya Takahashi, Juan-Carlos Algaba, Monica Orienti, Kazunori Akiyama, Akihiro Doi, Gabriele Giovannini, Marcello Giroletti, Mareki Honma, Shoko Koyama, Rocco Lico, Kotaro Niinuma, and Fumie Tazaki

2018 The Astrophysical Journal 868 146.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

Outermost streamlines of the steady axisymmetric solution of the FFE jet (NMF07, TMN08), which are anchored to the event horizon (r = rH) with the maximum colatitude angle at the footpoint θfp = π/2. A typical value of a = 0.9375 (in GRMHD simulations; Gammie et al. 2004; McKinney & Gammie 2004; McKinney 2006) is specified as a reference. The dotted line shows the genuine paraboloidal streamline with κ = 1.0 (z ∝ R2 at R ≫ rg; e.g., Blandford & Znajek 1977), while the solid line shows the paraboloidal streamline with κ = 0.75 (z ∝ R1.6 at R ≫ rg; e.g., Blandford & Payne 1982). The BH and the ergosphere are represented as the filled and hatched areas, respectively.

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