Lost in the curve: Investigating the disappearing knots in blazar 3C 454.3

One of the most well-known extragalactic sources in the sky, quasar 3C 454.3, shows a curved parsec-scale jet that has been exhaustively monitored with very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) over the recent years. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of four years of high-frequency VL...

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Autores: Traianou, E., Krichbaum, Thomas P., Gómez Fernández, José L., Lico, Rocco, Paraschos, Georgios Filippos, Cho, I., Ros, Eduardo, Zhao, Guang-Yao, Liodakis, Ioannis, Dahale, Rohan, Toscano, Teresa, Fuentes, Antonio, Foschi, Marianna, Casadio, Carolina, MacDonald, Nicholas, Kim, Jae-Young, Hervet, Olivier, Jorstad, Svetlana, Lobanov, Andrei P., Hodgson, Jeffrey, Myserlis, Ioannis, Agudo, Iván, Zensus, Anton J., Marscher, Alan P.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/369786
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/369786
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Black hole physics
Galaxies: active
Galaxies: jets
Galaxies: magnetic fields
Galaxies: nuclei
Quasars: supermassive black holes
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Sumario:One of the most well-known extragalactic sources in the sky, quasar 3C 454.3, shows a curved parsec-scale jet that has been exhaustively monitored with very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) over the recent years. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of four years of high-frequency VLBI observations at 43 GHz and 86 GHz, between 2013–2017, in total intensity and linear polarization. The images obtained from these observations enabled us to study the jet structure and the magnetic field topology of the source on spatial scales down to 4.6 parsec in projected distance. The kinematic analysis reveals the abrupt vanishing of at least four new superluminal jet features in a characteristic jet region (i.e., region C), which is located at an approximate distance of 0.6 milliarcsec from the VLBI core. Our results support a model in which the jet bends, directing the relativistic plasma flow almost perfectly toward our line of sight, co-spatially with the region where components appear to stop. © The Authors 2024.

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