Publication Date:
2000-09-29
Description:
A 16-month sequence of radio images of the active galaxy 3C120 with the Very Long Baseline Array reveals a region in the relativistic jet where superluminal components flash on and off over time scales of months, while the polarization angle rotates. This can be explained by interaction between the jet and an interstellar cloud located about 8 parsecs from the center of the galaxy. The cloud, which rotates the polarization direction and possibly eclipses a section of the jet, represents a "missing link" between the ultradense broad-emission-line clouds closer to the center and the lower density narrow-emission-line clouds seen on kiloparsec scales.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gomez -- Marscher -- Alberdi -- Jorstad -- Garcia-Miro -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Sep 29;289(5488):2317-20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC), Apartado 3004, Granada 18080, Spain. Institute for Astrophysical Research, Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Astronomical Institute, St. Petersburg State U.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11009410" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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