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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 19.

Innermost jet radii displayed as the FWHM/2 of millimeter VLBI cores at 43, 86, and 230 GHz, by utilizing the VLBI core shift. Our GRMHD simulation result (a = 0.9) in the quasi-steady phase (t/tg = 11,000) is overlaid. Expected positions of submillimeter VLBI cores at 345 and 690 GHz are also indicated with a horizontal dashed line. A color-filled contour of the Lorentz factor Γ (only where ﹩{u}^{r}\gt 0﹩) is shown, as well as βp = 1 (green solid lines), the jet stagnation surface ﹩{u}^{r}=0﹩ (navy solid line; only inside the PFD funnel), and b2/ρ = 1 (orange solid line). Other components are identical to those in Figure 1, but the BH spin is adjusted. The size of the BH shadow is indicated with the dotted circle with an average radius of ∼5rg for our reference. See also Figures 5, 12, and 15 for details.

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