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Two component relativistic acceleration and polarized radiation of the parsec-scale AGN jet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2011

Oliver Porth
Oliver Porth*
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institut für Astronomie, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We perform axisymmetric simulations of two-component jet acceleration using the special relativistic MHD code PLUTO (Mignone et al., 2007). The inner, thermally driven component constitutes a dilute relativistic plasma originating in a high enthalpy central corona. The second component is a Poynting-dominated wind driven by a global current system. Once a near-stationary state is reached, we solve the polarized Synchrotron radiation transport incorporating self-absorption and (internal) Faraday rotation. With this approach we obtain high-resolution radio maps and spectra that can help in the interpretation of observational data from nearby active galactic nuclei by predicting spine-sheath polarization structures and Faraday rotation gradients.

Keywords

galaxies: active - galaxies: jets - ISM: jets and outflows - plasmas - polarization - radiation mechanisms: non-thermal - Radiative transfer - relativity
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S274: Advances in Plasma Astrophysics , September 2010 , pp. 258 - 262
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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