VLBA Absorption Imaging of Ionized Gas Associated with the Accretion Disk in NGC 1275

Details VLBA Absorption Imaging of Ionized Gas Associated with the Accretion Disk in NGC 1275 VLBA Absorption Imaging of Ionized Gas Associated with the Accretion Disk in NGC 1275

1999-09-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9909365v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

24 pages, 9 figures. Accepted 1999 Sept. 9 for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/308372

Nearly simultaneous VLBA observations of 3C 84, the radio source associated with NGC 1275, have been made at multiple frequencies to study the free-free absorption of the northern, or "counterjet", feature found by Walker, Romney, and Benson (1994, Ap.J. 430, L45) and by Vermeulen, Readhead, and Backer (1994, Ap.J. 430, L41). Our observations confirm that the spectra are consistent with free-free absorption and eliminate the possibility that the earlier result was an effect of variability. The northern feature is well resolved spatially, so images have been made showing the distribution of the absorption over a region of about 1.5 pc on a side, beginning about 1.5 pc from the presumed location of the central object. That distribution is dominated by a strong decrease with radial distance. The magnitude of the absoption near 2.5 pc projected distance from the central object is consistent with a 10^4 K gas with an emission measure of about 5 X 10^8 pc cm^-6. The geometry is consistent with absorption by ionized gas associated with an accretion disk. The data provide firm constraints for models of the outer regions of accretion disks and, perhaps, associated winds.

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