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Ordered magnetic fields around the 3C 84 central black hole

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2024-02-05 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

3C84 is a nearby radio source with a complex total intensity structure, showing linear polarisation and spectral patterns. A detailed investigation of the central engine region necessitates the use of VLBI above the hitherto available maximum frequency of 86GHz. Using ultrahigh resolution VLBI observations at the highest available frequency of 228GHz, we aim to directly detect compact structures and understand the physical conditions in the compact region of 3C84. We used EHT 228GHz observations and, given the limited (u,v)-coverage, applied geometric model fitting to the data. We also employed quasi-simultaneously observed, multi-frequency VLBI data for the source in order to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the core structure. We report the detection of a highly ordered, strong magnetic field around the central, SMBH of 3C84. The brightness temperature analysis suggests that the system is in equipartition. We determined a turnover frequency of νm=(113±4)\nu_m=(113\pm4)GHz, a corresponding synchrotron self-absorbed magnetic field of BSSA=(2.9±1.6)B_{SSA}=(2.9\pm1.6)G, and an equipartition magnetic field of Beq=(5.2±0.6)B_{eq}=(5.2\pm0.6)G. Three components are resolved with the highest fractional polarisation detected for this object (mnet=(17.0±3.9)m_\textrm{net}=(17.0\pm3.9)%). The positions of the components are compatible with those seen in low-frequency VLBI observations since 2017-2018. We report a steeply negative slope of the spectrum at 228GHz. We used these findings to test models of jet formation, propagation, and Faraday rotation in 3C84. The findings of our investigation into different flow geometries and black hole spins support an advection-dominated accretion flow in a magnetically arrested state around a rapidly rotating supermassive black hole as a model of the jet-launching system in the core of 3C84. However, systematic uncertainties due to the limited (u,v)-coverage, however, cannot be ignored.

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@article{arxiv.2402.00927,
  title  = {Ordered magnetic fields around the 3C 84 central black hole},
  author = {G. F. Paraschos and J. -Y. Kim and M. Wielgus and J. Röder and T. P. Krichbaum and E. Ros and I. Agudo and I. Myserlis and M. Moscibrodzka and E. Traianou and J. A. Zensus and L. Blackburn and C. -K. Chan and S. Issaoun and M. Janssen and M. D. Johnson and V. L. Fish and K. Akiyama and A. Alberdi and W. Alef and J. C. Algaba and R. Anantua and K. Asada and R. Azulay and U. Bach and A. -K. Baczko and D. Ball and M. Baloković and J. Barrett and M. Bauböck and B. A. Benson and D. Bintley and R. Blundell and K. L. Bouman and G. C. Bower and H. Boyce and M. Bremer and C. D. Brinkerink and R. Brissenden and S. Britzen and A. E. Broderick and D. Broguiere and T. Bronzwaer and S. Bustamante and D. -Y. Byun and J. E. Carlstrom and C. Ceccobello and A. Chael and D. O. Chang and K. Chatterjee and S. Chatterjee and M. T. Chen and Y. Chen and X. Cheng and I. Cho and P. Christian and N. S. Conroy and J. E. Conway and J. M. Cordes and T. M. Crawford and G. B. Crew and A. Cruz-Osorio and Y. Cui and R. Dahale and J. Davelaar and M. De Laurentis and R. Deane and J. Dempsey and G. Desvignes and J. Dexter and V. Dhruv and S. S. Doeleman and S. Dougal and S. A. Dzib and R. P. Eatough and R. Emami and H. Falcke and J. Farah and E. Fomalont and H. A. Ford and M. Foschi and R. Fraga-Encinas and W. T. Freeman and P. Friberg and C. M. Fromm and A. Fuentes and P. Galison and C. F. Gammie and R. García and O. Gentaz and B. Georgiev and C. Goddi and R. Gold and A. I. Gómez-Ruiz and J. L. Gómez and M. Gu and M. Gurwell and K. Hada and D. Haggard and K. Haworth and M. H. Hecht and R. Hesper and D. Heumann and L. C. Ho and P. Ho and M. Honma and C. L. Huang and L. Huang and D. H. Hughes and S. Ikeda and C. M. V. Impellizzeri and M. Inoue and D. J. James and B. T. Jannuzi and B. Jeter and W. Jaing and A. Jiménez-Rosales and S. Jorstad and A. V. Joshi and T. Jung and M. Karami and R. Karuppusamy and T. Kawashima and G. K. Keating and M. Kettenis and D. -J. Kim and J. Kim and J. Kim and M. Kino and J. Y. Koay and P. Kocherlakota and Y. Kofuji and P. M. Koch and S. Koyama and C. Kramer and J. A. Kramer and M. Kramer and C. -Y. Kuo and N. La Bella and T. R. Lauer and D. Lee and S. -S. Lee and P. K. Leung and A. Levis and Z. Li and R. Lico and G. Lindahl and M. Lindqvist and M. Lisakov and J. Liu and K. Liu and E. Liuzzo and W. -P. Lo and A. P. Lobanov and L. Loinard and C. J. Lonsdale and A. E. Lowitz and R. -S. Lu and N. R. MacDonald and J. Mao and N. Marchili and S. Markoff and D. P. Marrone and A. P. Marscher and I. Martí-Vidal and S. Matsushita and L. D. Matthews and L. Medeiros and K. M. Menten and D. Michalik and I. Mizuno and Y. Mizuno and J. M. Moran and K. Moriyama and W. Mulaudzi and C. Müller and H. Müller and A. Mus and G. Musoke and A. Nadolski and H. Nagai and N. M. Nagar and M. Nakamura and G. Narayanan and I. Natarajan and A. Nathanail and S. Navarro Fuentes and J. Neilsen and R. Neri and C. Ni and A. Noutsos and M. A. Nowak and J. Oh and H. Okino and H. Olivares and G. N. Ortiz-León and T. Oyama and F. Özel and D. C. M. Palumbo and J. Park and H. Parsons and N. Patel and U. -L. Pen and V. Piétu and R. Plambeck and A. PopStefanija and O. Porth and F. M. Pötzl and B. Prather and J. A. Preciado-López and D. Psaltis and H. -Y. Pu and V. Ramakrishnan and R. Rao and M. G. Rawlings and A. W. Raymond and L. Rezzolla and A. Ricarte and B. Ripperda and F. Roelofs and A. Rogers and C. Romero-Cañizales and A. Roshanineshat and H. Rottmann and A. L. Roy and I. Ruiz and C. Ruszczyk and K. L. J. Rygl and S. Sánchez and D. Sánchez-Argüelles and M. Sánchez-Portal and M. Sasada and K. Satapathy and T. Savolainen and F. P. Schloerb and J. Schonfeld and K. Schuster and L. Shao and Z. Shen and D. Small and B. W. Sohn and J. SooHoo and L. D. Sosapanta Salas and K. Souccar and H. Sun and F. Tazaki and A. J. Tetarenko and P. Tiede and R. P. J. Tilanus and M. Titus and P. Torne and T. Toscano and T. Trent and S. Trippe and M. Turk and I. van Bemmel and H. J. van Langevelde and D. R. van Rossum and J. Vos and J. Wagner and D. Ward-Thompson and J. Wardle and J. E. Washington and J. Weintroub and R. Wharton and K. Wiik and G. Witzel and M. F. Wondrak and G. N. Wong and Q. Wu and N. Yadlapalli and P. Yamaguchi and A. Yfantis and D. Yoon and A. Young and K. Young and Z. Younsi and W. Yu and F. Yuan and Y. -F. Yuan and S. Zhang and G. Y. Zhao and S. -S. Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.00927},
  year   = {2024}
}

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15 pages, 6 figures, published in A&A

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