Resolving the Inner Parsec of the Blazar J1924-2914 with the Event Horizon Telescope
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 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.

Författare

Sara Issaoun

NASA Hubble Fellowship Program

Radboud Universiteit

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Maciek Wielgus

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Svetlana Jorstad

Boston University

Thomas P. Krichbaum

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Lindy Blackburn

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Harvard University

Michael Janssen

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Chi-kwan Chan

University of Arizona

Dominic W. Pesce

Harvard University

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Jose L. Gomez

Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía (IAA)

Kazunori Akiyama

Harvard University

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Monika Moscibrodzka

Radboud Universiteit

Ivan Marti-Vidal

Universitat de Valencia

Andrew Chael

Princeton University

NASA Hubble Fellowship Program

Rocco Lico

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía (IAA)

Jun Liu

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Venkatessh Ramakrishnan

European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Aalto-Yliopisto

Universidad de Concepción

Mikhail Lisakov

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Antonio Fuentes

Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía (IAA)

Guang-Yao Zhao

Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía (IAA)

Kotaro Moriyama

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

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-Gesellschaft

Yosuke Mizuno

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

Efthalia Traianou

Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía (IAA)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Laurent Loinard

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Jordy Davelaar

Flatiron Institute

Columbia University

Radboud Universiteit

Mark Gurwell

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Ru-Sen Lu

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Antxon Alberdi

Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía (IAA)

Walter Alef

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

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-Gesellschaft

Uwe Bach

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Anne-Kathrin Baczko

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

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 Universiteit

Roger Brissenden

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Harvard University

Silke Britzen

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Dominique Broguiere

Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)

Thomas Bronzwaer

Radboud Universiteit

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, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Astronomi och plasmafysik

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

Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía (IAA)

Pierre Christian

Fairfield University

Nicholas S. Conroy

University of Illinois

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

John Conway

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

James M. Cordes

Cornell University

Thomas M. Crawford

University of Chicago

Geoffrey B. Crew

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Alejandro Cruz-Osorio

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

Yuzhu Cui

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)

Mariafelicia De Laurentis

Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

Roger Deane

Rhodes University

Universiteit van Pretoria

University of Witwatersrand

Jessica Dempsey

East Asian Observatory

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON)

Gregory Desvignes

Université Paris Descartes

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-Gesellschaft

Ralph P. Eatough

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Razieh Emami

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Heino Falcke

Radboud Universiteit

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 Universiteit

William T. Freeman

Google Inc.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Per Friberg

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

East Asian Observatory

Christian M. Fromm

Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

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

Universita degli Studi di Cagliari

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

Roman Gold

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

Syddansk Universitet

Gomez-Ruiz

Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrońica

Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia 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

Rijksuniversiteit 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

Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrońica

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

Universiteit Leiden

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 Universiteit

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-Gesellschaft

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-Gesellschaft

Jae-Young Kim

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

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

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

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-Gesellschaft

Cheng-Yu Kuo

Academia Sinica

National Sun Yat-Sen University

Noemi La Bella

Radboud Universiteit

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

Michael Lindqvist

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

Kuo Liu

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Elisabetta Liuzzo

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

Wen-Ping Lo

National Taiwan University

Academia Sinica

Andrei P. Lobanov

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Colin Lonsdale

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Jirong Mao

Chinese Academy of Sciences

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

East Asian Observatory

Nicola Marchili

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

Sera Markoff

Universiteit Van 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-Gesellschaft

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 Universiteit

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Alejandro Mus

Universitat de Valencia

Gibwa Musoke

Universiteit Van Amsterdam

Radboud Universiteit

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

Universidad de Concepción

Masanori Nakamura

Academia Sinica

National Institute of Technology, Hachinohe College

Ramesh Narayan

Harvard University

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Gopal Narayanan

University of Massachusetts

Iniyan Natarajan

South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO)

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

Antonios Nathanail

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

Joey Neilsen

Villanova University

Roberto Neri

Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)

Chunchong Ni

University of Waterloo

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Aristeidis Noutsos

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Michael A. Nowak

Washington University in St. Louis

Junghwan Oh

Sejong University

Hiroki Okino

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

University of Tokyo

Hector Olivares

Radboud Universiteit

Gisela N. Ortiz-Leon

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Tomoaki Oyama

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Feryal Ozel

University of Arizona

Daniel C. M. Palumbo

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Harvard University

Georgios Filippos Paraschos

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Jongho Park

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

Universiteit Van Amsterdam

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

Felix M. Potzl

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

University College Cork

Ben Prather

University of Illinois

Jorge A. Preciado-Lopez

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Dimitrios Psaltis

University of Arizona

Hung-Yi Pu

Academia Sinica

National Taiwan Normal University

Ramprasad Rao

Academia Sinica

Mark G. Rawlings

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

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

East Asian Observatory

Alexander W. Raymond

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Harvard University

Luciano Rezzolla

Trinity College Dublin

Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

Angelo Ricarte

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Harvard University

Bart Ripperda

Flatiron Institute

Princeton University

Freek Roelofs

Radboud Universiteit

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Harvard University

Alan Rogers

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Eduardo Ros

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Cristina Romero-Canizales

Academia Sinica

Arash Roshanineshat

University of Arizona

Helge Rottmann

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Alan L. Roy

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

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

Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrońica

Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia Mexico

Miguel Sanchez-Portal

Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica

Mahito Sasada

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Hiroshima University

Kaushik Satapathy

University of Arizona

Tuomas Savolainen

Aalto-Yliopisto

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

F. Peter Schloerb

University of Massachusetts

Karl-Friedrich Schuster

Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)

Lijing Shao

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Beijing University of Technology

Zhiqiang Shen

Chinese Academy of Sciences

East Asian Observatory

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Des Small

Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)

Bong Won Sohn

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

University of Science and Technology (UST)

East Asian Observatory

Yonsei University

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

Jason SooHoo

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Kamal Souccar

University of Massachusetts

He Sun

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Fumie Tazaki

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Alexandra J. Tetarenko

NASA Hubble Fellowship Program

Texas Tech University at Lubbock

Remo P. J. Tilanus

Radboud Universiteit

University of Arizona

Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)

Universiteit Leiden

Michael Titus

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Pablo Torne

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica

Tyler Trent

University of Arizona

Sascha Trippe

East Asian Observatory

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Seoul National University

Ilse van Bemmel

Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)

Huib Jan van Langevelde

Universiteit Leiden

University of New Mexico

Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)

Daniel R. van Rossum

Radboud Universiteit

Jesse Vos

Radboud Universiteit

Jan Wagner

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Derek Ward-Thompson

University of Central Lancashire

John Wardle

Brandeis University

Jonathan Weintroub

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Harvard University

Norbert Wex

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Robert Wharton

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Kaj Wiik

Turun Yliopisto

Gunther Witzel

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Michael Wondrak

Radboud Universiteit

George N. Wong

Institute for Advanced Study

Princeton University

Qingwen Wu

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

East Asian Observatory

Paul Yamaguchi

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Doosoo Yoon

Universiteit Van Amsterdam

Andre Young

Radboud Universiteit

Ken Young

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Ziri Younsi

University College London (UCL)

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

Feng Yuan

Chinese Academy of Sciences

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

East Asian Observatory

Ye-Fei Yuan

University of Science and Technology of China

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

East Asian Observatory

J. Anton Zensus

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Shuo Zhang

Bard College

Shan-Shan Zhao

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Astrophysical Journal

0004-637X (ISSN) 1538-4357 (eISSN)

Vol. 934 2 145

Ämneskategorier

Meteorologi och atmosfärforskning

Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi

Fusion, plasma och rymdfysik

DOI

10.3847/1538-4357/ac7a40

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2023-09-15