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9个活动星系核喷流的秒差距法拉第旋转结构

Parsec Scale Faraday-Rotation Structure Across the Jets of 9 Active Galactic Nuclei

Denise C. Gabuzda, Naomi Roche, Amy Kirwan, Sebastian Knuettel, Matt Nagle, Caolan Houston

摘要:

近年来,许多研究小组积极地研究活动星系核喷流中法拉第旋转测量(RM)的梯度,并估计其可靠性。这样的RM结构提供了方位角磁场分量的存在的直接证据,这可能与螺旋射流磁场,如基于许多理论研究的结果所预期的。本文给出了4个活动星系核的新的秒差距尺度RM图,并与5个已发表的RM图一起分析了它们的横向RM结构。所有这些射流都显示出横向RM梯度,其显著性至少为3σ。这是一个正在进行的努力,以建立如何共同的横向RM梯度,可能与螺旋或环形磁场是在活动星系核的秒差距尺度。

英文摘要:

A number of groups have recently been active in searching for gradients in the ob- served Faraday rotation measure (RM) across jets of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) on various scales and estimating their reliability. Such RM structures provide direct evidence for the presence of an azimuthal magnetic field component, which may be associated with a helical jet magnetic field, as is expected based on the results of many theoretical studies. We present new parsec-scale RM maps of 4 AGNs here, and analyze their transverse RM structures together with those for 5 previously published RM maps. All these jets display transverse RM gradients with significances of at least 3σ. This is part of an ongoing effort to establish how common transverse RM gradients that may be associated with helical or toroidal magnetic fields are in AGNs on parsec scales.

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