Variability of the Intensity, Structure, and Magnetic Field in Compact Blazar Jets

紧凑型 Blazar 射流中强度、结构和磁场的变化

• 批准号: 9802941
• 负责人: Alan Marscher
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-06-15 至 2002-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9802941&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Variability; Intensity; Structure; Magnetic; Field

AST 98-02941 Marscher Although much progress has been made in exploring the nature of quasars, they are now only partly understood. The energetic phenomena associated with quasars are thought to be powered by accretion only massive black holes lying at the centers of the host galaxies. The fuel would be interstellar gas that passes through the nucleus of the galaxy, probably as a result of an encounter with another galaxy. The angular momentum of the accreting gas causes it to form a differentially rotating disk surrounding a black hole. In some of these objects - preferentially those that lie at the centers of elliptical galaxies - jets of magnetized ultrarelativistic plasma flow outward at speeds near that of light along the rotation axis of the disk. Dr. Marscher is studying the nature of the radio jets with highly variable nonthermal radiation that are observed in some quasars. These objects are part of the class known as Blazars. Dr. Marscher is comparing high-resolution, high-frequency radio images of actual jets with images of simulated jets obtained through hydrodynamic calculations. The observations will follow propagation of new knots down the jets (ejected roughly monthly from the core). The nature of the core itself is also explored, and the structure of the magnetic field. ***

AST 98-02941 Marscher 尽管在探索类星体的性质方面已经取得了很大进展，但现在人们对它们的了解还只是部分。与类星体相关的能量现象被认为是由位于宿主星系中心的大质量黑洞的吸积提供动力的。燃料将是穿过星系核的星际气体，可能是与另一个星系相遇的结果。吸积气体的角动量使其形成围绕黑洞的差异旋转圆盘。在其中一些天体中——尤其是那些位于椭圆星系中心的天体——磁化的超相对论等离子体射流沿着圆盘的旋转轴以接近光速的速度向外流动。马歇尔博士正在研究在一些类星体中观察到的具有高度可变非热辐射的射电喷流的性质。这些对象是 Blazar 类的一部分。 Marscher 博士正在将实际喷流的高分辨率高频射电图像与通过流体动力学计算获得的模拟喷流图像进行比较。观测将跟随新结沿着喷流传播（大约每月从核心喷射一次）。还探索了核心本身的性质以及磁场的结构。 ***