A New Window on Jet Formation: Millimeter & Submillimeter VLBI

Details A New Window on Jet Formation: Millimeter & Submillimeter VLBI A New Window on Jet Formation: Millimeter & Submillimeter VLBI

Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21332805b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #328.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.385

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Recently, exciting progress has been made in millimeter VLBI, resolving Sgr A* on angular scales comparable to that of its apparent horizon. However, such a capability may also be brought to bear upon M87, a black hole that unlike Sgr A* is known to have a powerful jet. Despite being much further away, due to its substantially larger mass, the angular scale of M87's apparent horizon is only half that of Sgr A*, and thus can be probed at horizon-scales as well. I will discuss how VLBI observations of M87 using existing millimeter and submillimeter telescopes can be brought to bear upon outstanding questions in jet formation, providing critical empirical input into existing jet-formation simulations.

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