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六个秒差距尺度活动星系核喷流的磁场强度和光谱分布

Magnetic field strength and spectral distribution of six parsec-scale active galactic nuclei jets

Shane P. O'Sullivan, Denise C. Gabuzda

摘要:

我们使用观测的六个“耀变体”与甚长基线阵列(VLBA),在八个频率(4.6,5.1,7.9,8.9,12.9,15.4,22.2,43.1 GHz),调查的频率依赖的位置的VLBI核心(“核心移位”)和他们的整体喷流光谱分布。通过互相关的光学薄喷流发射,我们能够准确地对齐的多频图像的三个喷流(1418+546,2007+777,2200+420),其核心的位移和光谱,我们发现符合均分制度的布兰德福德和Konigl锥形喷流模型,其中的无线电核心的位置从基地的喷流遵循$r_{core}\proptoν^{-1}$。对于0954+658的喷流,我们使用我们的低频测量来对齐高频图像,假设在4.6-43 GHz的无线电核心中均分。在我们的样本中的其他两个源(1156+295,1749+096)的喷流发射太稀疏,我们的对齐技术无法工作。利用我们测得的核位移,我们计算了这四个活动星系核射电核在4.6-43 GHz范围内的均分磁场强度为10 ~ 100 mG量级。将我们的结果外推回吸积盘和黑洞喷射发射距离,我们发现磁场强度与磁动力喷射理论模型的预期一致。

英文摘要:

We use observations of six "blazars" with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), at eight frequencies (4.6, 5.1, 7.9, 8.9, 12.9, 15.4, 22.2, 43.1 GHz), to investigate the frequency-dependent position of their VLBI cores ("core-shift") and their overall jet spectral distribution. By cross-correlating the optically thin jet emission, we are able to accurately align the multi-frequency images of three of the jets (1418+546, 2007+777, 2200+420), whose core-shifts and spectra we find consistent with the equipartition regime of the Blandford & Konigl conical jet model, where the position of the radio core from the base of the jet follows $r_{core}\proptoν^{-1}$. For the jet of 0954+658, we align the higher frequency images using our lower frequency measurements assuming equipartition in the radio core from 4.6-43 GHz. The jet emission of the other two sources in our sample (1156+295, 1749+096) is too sparse for our alignment technique to work. Using our measured core-shifts, we calculate equipartition magnetic field strengths of the order of 10's to 100's of mG in the radio cores of these four AGN from 4.6-43 GHz. Extrapolating our results back to the accretion disk and black hole jet-launching distances, we find magnetic field strengths consistent with those expected from theoretical models of magnetically powered jets.

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