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.

Author

Sara Issaoun

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Radboud University

Maciek Wielgus

Max Planck Society

Svetlana Jorstad

Boston University

Thomas P. Krichbaum

Max Planck Society

Lindy Blackburn

Harvard University

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Michael Janssen

Max Planck Society

Chi-kwan Chan

University of Arizona

Dominic W. Pesce

Harvard University

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Jose L. Gomez

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Kazunori Akiyama

Harvard University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Monika Moscibrodzka

Radboud University

Ivan Marti-Vidal

Universitat de Valencia

Andrew Chael

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Princeton University

Rocco Lico

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

Max Planck Society

Jun Liu

Max Planck Society

Venkatessh Ramakrishnan

University of Concepcion

Aalto University

European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Mikhail Lisakov

Max Planck Society

Antonio Fuentes

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Guang-Yao Zhao

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

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 University

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Nicholas R. MacDonald

Max Planck Society

Yosuke Mizuno

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Goethe University Frankfurt

Efthalia Traianou

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Max Planck Society

Laurent Loinard

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Jordy Davelaar

Radboud University

Columbia University

Flatiron Institute

Mark Gurwell

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Ru-Sen Lu

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Max Planck Society

Antxon Alberdi

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Walter Alef

Max Planck Society

Juan Carlos Algaba

University of Malaya

Richard Anantua

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Harvard University

University of Texas at San Antonio

Keiichi Asada

Academia Sinica

Rebecca Azulay

Max Planck Society

Universitat de Valencia

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

East Asian Observatory

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

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

University of Science and Technology (UST)

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

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

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

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

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Mariafelicia De Laurentis

University of Naples Federico II

National Institute for Nuclear Physics

Goethe University Frankfurt

Roger Deane

Rhodes University

University of Pretoria

University of Witwatersrand

Jessica Dempsey

Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON)

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

East Asian Observatory

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

Max Planck Society

Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)

Ralph P. Eatough

Max Planck Society

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Razieh Emami

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Heino Falcke

Radboud University

Joseph Farah

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network

University of California at Santa Barbara

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

East Asian Observatory

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Christian M. Fromm

Max Planck Society

Goethe University Frankfurt

University of Würzburg

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

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

University of Cagliari

Roman Gold

University of Southern Denmark

Goethe University Frankfurt

Gomez-Ruiz

National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics

National Council for Science and Technology Mexico

Minfeng Gu

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Kazuhiro Hada

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

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

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Chih-Wei L. Huang

Academia Sinica

Lei Huang

Chinese Academy of Sciences

David H. Hughes

National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics

Shiro Ikeda

University of Tokyo

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)

The Institute of Statistical Mathematics

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

C. M. Violette Impellizzeri

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Leiden University

Makoto Inoue

Academia Sinica

David J. James

ASTRAVEO

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

East Asian Observatory

Max Planck Society

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

Jongsoo Kim

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

Junhan Kim

University of Arizona

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

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

Niigata University

Academia Sinica

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

Daeyoung Lee

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

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Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory

Kuo Liu

Max Planck Society

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Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

Wen-Ping Lo

Academia Sinica

National Taiwan University

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Max Planck Society

Colin Lonsdale

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Jirong Mao

East Asian Observatory

Chinese Academy of Sciences

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Nicola Marchili

Max Planck Society

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

Sera Markoff

University of Amsterdam

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University of Arizona

Alan P. Marscher

Boston University

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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

East Asian Observatory

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

James M. Moran

Harvard University

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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

Masanori Nakamura

National Institute of Technology, Hachinohe College

Academia Sinica

Ramesh Narayan

Harvard University

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Gopal Narayanan

University of Massachusetts

Iniyan Natarajan

South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO)

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Goethe University Frankfurt

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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

Junghwan Oh

Sejong University

Hiroki Okino

University of Tokyo

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

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 University

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Max Planck Society

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Academia Sinica

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East Asian Observatory

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Nimesh Patel

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Academia Sinica

University of Toronto

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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

University College Cork

Max Planck Society

Ben Prather

University of Illinois

Jorge A. Preciado-Lopez

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Dimitrios Psaltis

University of Arizona

Hung-Yi Pu

National Taiwan Normal University

Academia Sinica

Ramprasad Rao

Academia Sinica

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NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab)

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

East Asian Observatory

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Harvard University

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Goethe University Frankfurt

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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Radboud University

Alan Rogers

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Eduardo Ros

Max Planck Society

Cristina Romero-Canizales

Academia Sinica

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University of Arizona

Helge Rottmann

Max Planck Society

Alan L. Roy

Max Planck Society

Ignacio Ruiz

Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica

Chet Ruszczyk

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Kazi L. J. Rygl

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

Salvador Sanchez

Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica

David Sanchez-Arguelles

National Council for Science and Technology Mexico

National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics

Miguel Sanchez-Portal

Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica

Mahito Sasada

Hiroshima University

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Kaushik Satapathy

University of Arizona

Tuomas Savolainen

Aalto University

Max Planck Society

F. Peter Schloerb

University of Massachusetts

Karl-Friedrich Schuster

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

Yonsei University

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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University of Massachusetts

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California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

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National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

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University of Arizona

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Leiden University

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Radboud University

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Max Planck Society

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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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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

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Radboud University

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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Chinese Academy of Sciences

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East Asian Observatory

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East Asian Observatory

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 2 145

Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)

Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics

DOI

10.3847/1538-4357/ac7a40

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