Evolving parsec-scale radio structure in the most distant blazar known
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2020

Blazars are a sub-class of quasars with Doppler boosted jets oriented close to the line of sight, and thus efficient probes of supermassive black hole growth and their environment, especially at high redshifts. Here we report on Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations of a blazar J0906 + 6930 at z = 5.47, which enabled the detection of polarised emission and measurement of jet proper motion at parsec scales. The observations suggest a less powerful jet compared with the general blazar population, including lower proper motion and bulk Lorentz factor. This coupled with a previously inferred high accretion rate indicate a transition from an accretion radiative power to a jet mechanical power based transfer of energy and momentum to the surrounding gas. While alternative scenarios could not be fully ruled out, our results indicate a possibly nascent jet embedded in and interacting with a dense medium resulting in a jet bending.

momentum

probe

jet

emission

accretion

polarization

mechanical property

Författare

T. An

Chinese Academy of Sciences

P. Mohan

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Y. K. Zhang

Chinese Academy of Sciences

S. Frey

Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia

Jun Yang

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Onsala rymdobservatorium

Krisztina E. Gabányi

Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)

Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia

L. I. Gurvits

TU Delft

Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)

Z. Paragi

Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)

Krisztina Perger

Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)

Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia

Zhenya Zheng

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Nature Communications

2041-1723 (ISSN) 20411723 (eISSN)

Vol. 11 1 143

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)

Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi

DOI

10.1038/s41467-019-14093-2

PubMed

31919424

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