Evidence for Toroidal B-Field Structures in BL Lac Objects

Details Evidence for Toroidal B-Field Structures in BL Lac Objects Evidence for Toroidal B-Field Structures in BL Lac Objects

2003-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311504v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 1 figure, presented at the symposium "Radio Astronomy at 70: from Karl Jansky to microjansky" at the 2003 JENAM meeti

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If the transverse jet B fields observed in BL Lac objects on parsec scales represent the toroidal component of the jet B fields, this should give rise to rotation-measure gradients across the jets, due to the systematic change in the line-of-sight component of the jet B field. We have found evidence for such rotation-measure gradients in one-third to one-half of the 1 Jy BL Lac objects we have analyzed. We present and discuss these new results, together with some of their implications for our understanding of the parsec-scale jets of AGN.

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