| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 61, 2013
The Innermost Regions of Relativistic Jets and Their Magnetic Fields
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| Article Number | 07003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Magnetic fields and jet physics II | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20136107003 | |
| Published online | 09 December 2013 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20136107003
A Rotation Measure Gradient on the M87 VLA Jet
Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 11F of Astronomy-Mathematics Building, AS/NTU, S/NTU No 1, Sec 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617 Taiwan
a e-mail: algaba@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw
Published online: 9 December 2013
Rotation measures (RMs) have proven to be an excellent tool to study magnetic field structures in AGNs. Here we study RM properties on kiloparsec scales of theM87 jet via stacked multi wavelength polarized VLA observations. Our results show for the first time an indication of the RM gradient transverse to the jet in knot A, and possibly knot C and HST-1. Motivated by the shape of the RM in knots A and B, we discuss that part of it may be a filamentary structure of higher RM due to an external Faraday screen, although we consider this unlikely The data presented here can be easily explained by a helical magnetic field. By combining this result together with polarization direction plus the shape and degree of the fractional polarization across the jet, we can fairly conclude the presence of systematically wrapped, possibly helical, magnetic fields tightly wounded in knots A and C, in agreement with an MHD quad shock model.
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