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Signatures of Black Hole Spin and Plasma Acceleration in Jet Polarimetry. II. Off-axis Jets

  • Authors: Z. Gelles, A. Chael, E. Quataert

Z. Gelles et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1001 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 16.

Image coordinate of polarization swing along the spine (left column) and along the relevant limb (right column). For the top row, the black hole spin is fixed, and ﹩\tilde{\beta }﹩ (in units of M) is plotted as a function of γ and ﹩{\gamma }_{\infty }\sin i﹩. For the bottom row, inclination is fixed, and ﹩\tilde{\beta }﹩ is plotted as a function of black hole spin and ﹩{\gamma }_{\infty }\sin i﹩. Note that ﹩{\tilde{\beta }}_{{\rm{limb}}}﹩ diverges when ﹩{\gamma }_{\infty }\sin i=1﹩, which is demarcated with the upper black dashed line. The lower black dashed line marks the transition into the face-on regime, where the emission is viewed from within the cone of the jet and the projected limbs disappear from the image.

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