Resolving the Inner Parsec of the Blazar J1924-2914 with the Event Horizon Telescope
Journal article, 2022
The blazar J1924-2914 is a primary Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) calibrator for the Galactic center's black hole Sagittarius A*. Here we present the first total and linearly polarized intensity images of this source obtained with the unprecedented 20 mu as resolution of the EHT. J1924-2914 is a very compact flat-spectrum radio source with strong optical variability and polarization. In April 2017 the source was observed quasi-simultaneously with the EHT (April 5-11), the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (April 3), and the Very Long Baseline Array (April 28), giving a novel view of the source at four observing frequencies, 230, 86, 8.7, and 2.3 GHz. These observations probe jet properties from the subparsec to 100 pc scales. We combine the multifrequency images of J1924-2914 to study the source morphology. We find that the jet exhibits a characteristic bending, with a gradual clockwise rotation of the jet projected position angle of about 90 degrees between 2.3 and 230 GHz. Linearly polarized intensity images of J1924-2914 with the extremely fine resolution of the EHT provide evidence for ordered toroidal magnetic fields in the blazar compact core.
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Sara Issaoun
NASA Hubble Fellowship Program
Radboud University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Maciek Wielgus
Max Planck Society
Svetlana Jorstad
Boston University
Thomas P. Krichbaum
Max Planck Society
Lindy Blackburn
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
Michael Janssen
Max Planck Society
Chi-kwan Chan
University of Arizona
Dominic W. Pesce
Harvard University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Jose L. Gomez
Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA)
Kazunori Akiyama
Harvard University
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Monika Moscibrodzka
Radboud University
Ivan Marti-Vidal
Universitat de Valencia
Andrew Chael
Princeton University
NASA Hubble Fellowship Program
Rocco Lico
Max Planck Society
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA)
Jun Liu
Max Planck Society
Venkatessh Ramakrishnan
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Aalto University
University of Concepcion
Mikhail Lisakov
Max Planck Society
Antonio Fuentes
Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA)
Guang-Yao Zhao
Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA)
Kotaro Moriyama
Goethe University Frankfurt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Avery E. Broderick
University of Waterloo
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Paul Tiede
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
Nicholas R. MacDonald
Max Planck Society
Yosuke Mizuno
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Goethe University Frankfurt
Efthalia Traianou
Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA)
Max Planck Society
Laurent Loinard
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Jordy Davelaar
Flatiron Institute
Columbia University
Radboud University
Mark Gurwell
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Ru-Sen Lu
Max Planck Society
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Antxon Alberdi
Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA)
Walter Alef
Max Planck Society
Juan Carlos Algaba
University of Malaya
Richard Anantua
University of Texas at San Antonio
Harvard University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Keiichi Asada
Academia Sinica
Rebecca Azulay
Universitat de Valencia
Max Planck Society
Uwe Bach
Max Planck Society
Anne-Kathrin Baczko
Max Planck Society
David Ball
University of Arizona
Mislac Balokovic
Yale University
John Barrett
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Michi Baubock
University of Illinois
Bradford A. Benson
University of Chicago
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Dan Bintley
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
East Asian Observatory
Raymond Blundell
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Wilfred Boland
Nederlandse Onderzoekschool voor Astronomie (NOVA)
Katherine L. Bouman
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Geoffrey C. Bower
University of Hawaii
Academia Sinica
Hope Boyce
McGill University
Michael Bremer
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Christiaan D. Brinkerink
Radboud University
Roger Brissenden
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
Silke Britzen
Max Planck Society
Dominique Broguiere
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Thomas Bronzwaer
Radboud University
Sandra Bustamante
University of Massachusetts
Do-Young Byun
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
University of Science and Technology (UST)
John E. Carlstrom
University of Chicago
Chiara Ceccobello
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics
Koushik Chatterjee
Harvard University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Shami Chatterjee
Cornell University
Ming-Tang Chen
Academia Sinica
Yongjun Chen
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ilje Cho
Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA)
Pierre Christian
Fairfield University
Nicholas S. Conroy
University of Illinois
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
John Conway
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory
James M. Cordes
Cornell University
Thomas M. Crawford
University of Chicago
Geoffrey B. Crew
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Alejandro Cruz-Osorio
Goethe University Frankfurt
Yuzhu Cui
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
Mariafelicia De Laurentis
University of Naples Federico II
Goethe University Frankfurt
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Roger Deane
Rhodes University
University of Pretoria
University of Witwatersrand
Jessica Dempsey
East Asian Observatory
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON)
Gregory Desvignes
Paris Descartes University
Jason Dexter
University of Colorado at Boulder
Sheperd S. Doeleman
Harvard University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Vedant Dhruv
University of Illinois
Sergio Abraham Dzib Quijano
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Max Planck Society
Ralph P. Eatough
Max Planck Society
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Razieh Emami
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Heino Falcke
Radboud University
Joseph Farah
University of California at Santa Barbara
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network
Vincent L. Fish
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Ed Fomalont
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
H. Alyson Ford
University of Arizona
Raquel Fraga-Encinas
Radboud University
William T. Freeman
Google Inc.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Per Friberg
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
East Asian Observatory
Christian M. Fromm
University of Würzburg
Max Planck Society
Goethe University Frankfurt
Peter Galison
Harvard University
Charles F. Gammie
University of Illinois
Roberto Garcia
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Olivier Gentaz
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Boris Georgiev
University of Waterloo
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Ciriaco Goddi
University of Cagliari
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Roman Gold
Goethe University Frankfurt
University of Southern Denmark
Gomez-Ruiz
National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics
National Council for Science and Technology Mexico
Minfeng Gu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kazuhiro Hada
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
Daryl Haggard
McGill University
Michael H. Hecht
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Ronald Hesper
University of Groningen
Luis C. Ho
Beijing University of Technology
Paul Ho
Academia Sinica
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
Mareki Honma
University of Tokyo
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
Chih-Wei L. Huang
Academia Sinica
Lei Huang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
David H. Hughes
National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics
Shiro Ikeda
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
University of Tokyo
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
C. M. Violette Impellizzeri
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Leiden University
Makoto Inoue
Academia Sinica
David J. James
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Buell T. Jannuzi
University of Arizona
Britton Jeter
Academia Sinica
Wu Jiang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Alejandra Jimenez-Rosales
Radboud University
Michael D. Johnson
Harvard University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Joshi
University of Illinois
Taehyun Jung
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
University of Science and Technology (UST)
Mansour Karami
University of Waterloo
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Ramesh Karuppusamy
Max Planck Society
Tomohisa Kawashima
University of Tokyo
Garrett K. Keating
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Mark Kettenis
Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
Dong-Jin Kim
Max Planck Society
Jae-Young Kim
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
Max Planck Society
East Asian Observatory
Jongsoo Kim
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
Junhan Kim
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
University of Arizona
Motoki Kino
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Kogakuin University of Technology and Engineering
Jun Yi Koay
Academia Sinica
Prashant Kocherlakota
Goethe University Frankfurt
Yutaro Kofuji
University of Tokyo
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Patrick M. Koch
Academia Sinica
Shoko Koyama
Academia Sinica
Niigata University
Carsten Kramer
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Michael Kramer
Max Planck Society
Cheng-Yu Kuo
Academia Sinica
National Sun Yat-Sen University
Noemi La Bella
Radboud University
Tod R. Lauer
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
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University of Illinois
Sang-Sung Lee
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
Po Kin Leung
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Aviad Levis
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Zhiyuan Li
Nanjing University
Greg Lindahl
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Michael Lindqvist
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory
Kuo Liu
Max Planck Society
Elisabetta Liuzzo
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Wen-Ping Lo
National Taiwan University
Academia Sinica
Andrei P. Lobanov
Max Planck Society
Colin Lonsdale
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Jirong Mao
Chinese Academy of Sciences
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
East Asian Observatory
Nicola Marchili
Max Planck Society
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Sera Markoff
University of Amsterdam
Daniel P. Marrone
University of Arizona
Alan P. Marscher
Boston University
Satoki Matsushita
Academia Sinica
Lynn D. Matthews
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Lia Medeiros
University of Arizona
Institute for Advanced Study
Karl M. Menten
Max Planck Society
Daniel Michalik
University of Chicago
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA ESTEC)
Izumi Mizuno
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
East Asian Observatory
James M. Moran
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
Cornelia Mueller
Radboud University
Max Planck Society
Alejandro Mus
Universitat de Valencia
Gibwa Musoke
University of Amsterdam
Radboud University
Ioannis Myserlis
Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica
Andrew Nadolski
University of Illinois
Hiroshi Nagai
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Neil M. Nagar
University of Concepcion
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Academia Sinica
National Institute of Technology, Hachinohe College
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Harvard University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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University of Massachusetts
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South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO)
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Goethe University Frankfurt
Joey Neilsen
Villanova University
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Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
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University of Waterloo
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
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Max Planck Society
Michael A. Nowak
Washington University in St. Louis
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Sejong University
Hiroki Okino
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
University of Tokyo
Hector Olivares
Radboud University
Gisela N. Ortiz-Leon
Max Planck Society
Tomoaki Oyama
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
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University of Arizona
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
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Max Planck Society
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Academia Sinica
Harriet Parsons
East Asian Observatory
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
Nimesh Patel
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Ue-Li Pen
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
University of Toronto
Academia Sinica
Vincent Pietu
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Richard Plambeck
University of California at Berkeley
Aleksandar PopStefanija
University of Massachusetts
Oliver Porth
University of Amsterdam
Goethe University Frankfurt
Felix M. Potzl
Max Planck Society
University College Cork
Ben Prather
University of Illinois
Jorge A. Preciado-Lopez
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Dimitrios Psaltis
University of Arizona
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Academia Sinica
National Taiwan Normal University
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Academia Sinica
Mark G. Rawlings
NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab)
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
East Asian Observatory
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
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Trinity College Dublin
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Goethe University Frankfurt
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
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Flatiron Institute
Princeton University
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Radboud University
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Max Planck Society
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Academia Sinica
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University of Arizona
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Max Planck Society
Alan L. Roy
Max Planck Society
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Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica
Chet Ruszczyk
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Salvador Sanchez
Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica
David Sanchez-Arguelles
National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics
National Council for Science and Technology Mexico
Miguel Sanchez-Portal
Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica
Mahito Sasada
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Hiroshima University
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University of Arizona
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Aalto University
Max Planck Society
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University of Massachusetts
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Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
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Max Planck Society
Beijing University of Technology
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Chinese Academy of Sciences
East Asian Observatory
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
Des Small
Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
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James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
University of Science and Technology (UST)
East Asian Observatory
Yonsei University
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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University of Massachusetts
He Sun
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
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National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
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NASA Hubble Fellowship Program
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Radboud University
University of Arizona
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Leiden University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Max Planck Society
Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica
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University of Arizona
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East Asian Observatory
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
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Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
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Leiden University
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Radboud University
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Radboud University
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Max Planck Society
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University of Central Lancashire
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Brandeis University
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
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Max Planck Society
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Max Planck Society
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University of Turku
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Max Planck Society
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Radboud University
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Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton University
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Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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University of Amsterdam
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Radboud University
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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University College London (UCL)
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Chinese Academy of Sciences
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East Asian Observatory
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University of Science and Technology of China
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Max Planck Society
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Bard College
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Chinese Academy of Sciences
Astrophysical Journal
0004-637X (ISSN) 1538-4357 (eISSN)
Vol. 934 2 145Subject Categories
Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics
DOI
10.3847/1538-4357/ac7a40