Bending relativistic jets in AGNs

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1997-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9706124v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, tex, uses lecproc.cmm, 3 figures (included); also available at http://www.camk.edu.pl/~tomek/papers/rjet_s.uu (reduce

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We present simulations of relativistic jets propagating in a nonuniform medium. Specifically, we study the bending of jets propagating obliquely to the vector of the density-gradient. Our results are applied to the NGC 4258, where such a medium is assumed to be provided by the atmosphere of the sub-parsec accretion disk tilted with respect to the original direction of the jet propagation. As a result, the jet is bent on a scale comparable to the density scaleheight of the disk atmosphere. The magnitude of the bending effect is found to be largest for light jets with low Lorentz factors. The predicted direction of bending is consistent with the observations.

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