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S5 0836+710 A Kelvin-Helmholtz Unstable Jet on Parsec Scales?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

K. Otterbein ,
T.P. Krichbaum ,
A. Kraus ,
A. Witzel ,
C.A. Hummel  and
J.A. Zensus
K. Otterbein*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, 53121 Bonn, Germany
T.P. Krichbaum
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, 53121 Bonn, Germany
A. Kraus
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, 53121 Bonn, Germany
A. Witzel
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, 53121 Bonn, Germany
C.A. Hummel
Affiliation:
Universities Space Research Association, Washington, DC 20024, U.S.A.
J.A. Zensus*
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA 22903, U.S.A.
*
1Present address: Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
2 Present address: Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany.

Abstract

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The highly redshifted quasar S5 0836+710 (z = 2.172) displays an outstanding one sided jet with complex morphology. The continuous jet shows several remarkable lateral displacements (kinks) of its ridgeline on various length scales. Despite the strength of these distortions the jet is not destroyed by them and remains well collimated. We investigated the possibility to explain the displacements by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 164: Radio Emission from Galactic and Extragalactic Compact Sources , 1998 , pp. 73 - 74
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1998

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