| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 61, 2013
The Innermost Regions of Relativistic Jets and Their Magnetic Fields
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| Article Number | 06008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Magnetic fields and jet physics I | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20136106008 | |
| Published online | 09 December 2013 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20136106008
Evidence of Two-Component Optical Polarization in Blazar 1ES 1959+650
1 Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 70-264 04510, DF Mexico
2 Instituto de Astronomóa, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 877 22800 Ensenada BC Mexico
a e-mail: msorcia@astro.unam.mx
b e-mail: erika@astro.unam.mx
c e-mail: hiriart@astrosen.unam.mx
Published online: 9 December 2013
In this work we present an analysis of the optical polarimetric variability of the TeV-blazar 1 ES 1959+650 from 2007 October 18 to 2011 May 5. The source showed a maximum variation of 1.2 mag in R- band, and a maximum polarization degree of 12.2%. The blazar presented a preferential position angle of the optical polarization of ~ 153°, with variations of 10° − 50°, which is in agreement with the projected position angle of the parsec-scale jet found at 43 GHz. We infer the existence of the two optically thin synchrotron components that contribute to the polarized flux, consistent with the spine-sheath model. One of them is stable with a constant polarization degree of 4%. Assuming a stationary shock, we estimated some parameters associated with the physics of the relativistic jet: the Doppler factor of δD ∼ 23, the viewing angle of the jet of Φ ~ 2°.4, and the size of the emission region of rb ~ 5.6 × 1017 cm.
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