Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-07-23
Astrophys.J.597:798-808,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
18 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/381223
Many jets exhibit twisted helical structures. Where superluminal motions are detected, jet orientation and pattern/flow speed are considerably constrained. In this case modeling efforts can place strong limits on conditions in the jet and in the external environment. This can be done by modeling the spatial development of helical structures which are sensitively dependent on these conditions. Along an expanding jet this sensitivity manifests itself in predictable changes in pattern speed and observed wavelength. In general, twists of low frequency relative to the local resonant frequency are advected along the expanding jet into a region in which the twist frequency is high relative to the local resonant frequency. The wave speed can be very different in these two frequency regimes. Potential effects include helical twists with a nearly constant apparent wavelength, an apparent wavelength scaling approximately with the jet radius for up to two orders of magnitude of jet expansion, or multiple twist wavelengths with vastly different intrinsic scale and vastly different wave speeds that give rise to similar observed twist wavelengths but with very different observed motion. In this paper I illustrate the basic intrinsic and observed behavior of these structures and show how to place constraints on jet conditions in superluminal jets using the apparent structures and motions in the inner 3C 120 jet.
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