The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2023)

The Event Horizon Telescope Image of the Quasar NRAO 530

  • Svetlana Jorstad,
  • Maciek Wielgus,
  • Rocco Lico,
  • Sara Issaoun,
  • Avery E. Broderick,
  • Dominic W. Pesce,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Guang-Yao Zhao,
  • Thomas P. Krichbaum,
  • Lindy Blackburn,
  • Chi-kwan Chan,
  • Michael Janssen,
  • Venkatessh Ramakrishnan,
  • Kazunori Akiyama,
  • Antxon Alberdi,
  • Juan Carlos Algaba,
  • Katherine L. Bouman,
  • Ilje Cho,
  • Antonio Fuentes,
  • José L. Gómez,
  • Mark Gurwell,
  • Michael D. Johnson,
  • Jae-Young Kim,
  • Ru-Sen Lu,
  • Iván Martí-Vidal,
  • Monika Moscibrodzka,
  • Felix M. Pötzl,
  • Efthalia Traianou,
  • Ilse van Bemmel,
  • Walter Alef,
  • Richard Anantua,
  • Keiichi Asada,
  • Rebecca Azulay,
  • Uwe Bach,
  • Anne-Kathrin Baczko,
  • David Ball,
  • Mislav Baloković,
  • John Barrett,
  • Michi Bauböck,
  • Bradford A. Benson,
  • Dan Bintley,
  • Raymond Blundell,
  • Geoffrey C. Bower,
  • Hope Boyce,
  • Michael Bremer,
  • Christiaan D. Brinkerink,
  • Roger Brissenden,
  • Silke Britzen,
  • Dominique Broguiere,
  • Thomas Bronzwaer,
  • Sandra Bustamante,
  • Do-Young Byun,
  • John E. Carlstrom,
  • Chiara Ceccobello,
  • Andrew Chael,
  • Koushik Chatterjee,
  • Shami Chatterjee,
  • Ming-Tang Chen,
  • Yongjun Chen,
  • Xiaopeng Cheng,
  • Pierre Christian,
  • Nicholas S. Conroy,
  • John E. Conway,
  • James M. Cordes,
  • Thomas M. Crawford,
  • Geoffrey B. Crew,
  • Alejandro Cruz-Osorio,
  • Yuzhu Cui,
  • Jordy Davelaar,
  • Mariafelicia De Laurentis,
  • Roger Deane,
  • Jessica Dempsey,
  • Gregory Desvignes,
  • Jason Dexter,
  • Vedant Dhruv,
  • Sheperd S. Doeleman,
  • Sean Dougal,
  • Sergio A. Dzib,
  • Ralph P. Eatough,
  • Razieh Emami,
  • Heino Falcke,
  • Joseph Farah,
  • Vincent L. Fish,
  • Ed Fomalont,
  • H. Alyson Ford,
  • Raquel Fraga-Encinas,
  • William T. Freeman,
  • Per Friberg,
  • Christian M. Fromm,
  • Peter Galison,
  • Charles F. Gammie,
  • Roberto García,
  • Olivier Gentaz,
  • Boris Georgiev,
  • Ciriaco Goddi,
  • Roman Gold,
  • Arturo I. Gómez-Ruiz,
  • Minfeng Gu,
  • Kazuhiro Hada,
  • Daryl Haggard,
  • Kari Haworth,
  • Michael H. Hecht,
  • Ronald Hesper,
  • Dirk Heumann,
  • Luis C. Ho,
  • Paul Ho,
  • Mareki Honma,
  • Chih-Wei L. Huang,
  • Lei Huang,
  • David H. Hughes,
  • Shiro Ikeda,
  • C. M. Violette Impellizzeri,
  • Makoto Inoue,
  • David J. James,
  • Buell T. Jannuzi,
  • Britton Jeter,
  • Wu Jiang,
  • Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales,
  • Abhishek V. Joshi,
  • Taehyun Jung,
  • Mansour Karami,
  • Ramesh Karuppusamy,
  • Tomohisa Kawashima,
  • Garrett K. Keating,
  • Mark Kettenis,
  • Dong-Jin Kim,
  • Jongsoo Kim,
  • Junhan Kim,
  • Motoki Kino,
  • Jun Yi Koay,
  • Prashant Kocherlakota,
  • Yutaro Kofuji,
  • Shoko Koyama,
  • Carsten Kramer,
  • Michael Kramer,
  • Cheng-Yu Kuo,
  • Noemi La Bella,
  • Tod R. Lauer,
  • Daeyoung Lee,
  • Sang-Sung Lee,
  • Po Kin Leung,
  • Aviad Levis,
  • Zhiyuan Li,
  • Greg Lindahl,
  • Michael Lindqvist,
  • Mikhail Lisakov,
  • Kuo Liu,
  • Elisabetta Liuzzo,
  • Wen-Ping Lo,
  • Andrei P. Lobanov,
  • Laurent Loinard,
  • Colin J. Lonsdale,
  • Nicholas R. MacDonald,
  • Jirong Mao,
  • Nicola Marchili,
  • Sera Markoff,
  • Daniel P. Marrone,
  • Alan P. Marscher,
  • Satoki Matsushita,
  • Lynn D. Matthews,
  • Lia Medeiros,
  • Karl M. Menten,
  • Daniel Michalik,
  • Izumi Mizuno,
  • Yosuke Mizuno,
  • James M. Moran,
  • Kotaro Moriyama,
  • Cornelia Müller,
  • Alejandro Mus,
  • Gibwa Musoke,
  • Ioannis Myserlis,
  • Andrew Nadolski,
  • Hiroshi Nagai,
  • Neil M. Nagar,
  • Masanori Nakamura,
  • Ramesh Narayan,
  • Gopal Narayanan,
  • Iniyan Natarajan,
  • Antonios Nathanail,
  • Santiago Navarro Fuentes,
  • Joey Neilsen,
  • Roberto Neri,
  • Chunchong Ni,
  • Aristeidis Noutsos,
  • Michael A. Nowak,
  • Junghwan Oh,
  • Hiroki Okino,
  • Héctor Olivares,
  • Gisela N. Ortiz-León,
  • Tomoaki Oyama,
  • Feryal Özel,
  • Daniel C. M. Palumbo,
  • Georgios Filippos Paraschos,
  • Jongho Park,
  • Harriet Parsons,
  • Nimesh Patel,
  • Ue-Li Pen,
  • Vincent Piétu,
  • Richard Plambeck,
  • Aleksandar PopStefanija,
  • Oliver Porth,
  • Ben Prather,
  • Jorge A. Preciado-López,
  • Dimitrios Psaltis,
  • Hung-Yi Pu,
  • Ramprasad Rao,
  • Mark G. Rawlings,
  • Alexander W. Raymond,
  • Luciano Rezzolla,
  • Angelo Ricarte,
  • Bart Ripperda,
  • Freek Roelofs,
  • Alan Rogers,
  • Eduardo Ros,
  • Cristina Romero-Cañizales,
  • Arash Roshanineshat,
  • Helge Rottmann,
  • Alan L. Roy,
  • Ignacio Ruiz,
  • Chet Ruszczyk,
  • Kazi L. J. Rygl,
  • Salvador Sánchez,
  • David Sánchez-Argüelles,
  • Miguel Sánchez-Portal,
  • Mahito Sasada,
  • Kaushik Satapathy,
  • Tuomas Savolainen,
  • F. Peter Schloerb,
  • Jonathan Schonfeld,
  • Karl-Friedrich Schuster,
  • Lijing Shao,
  • Zhiqiang Shen,
  • Des Small,
  • Bong Won Sohn,
  • Jason SooHoo,
  • Kamal Souccar,
  • He Sun,
  • Fumie Tazaki,
  • Alexandra J. Tetarenko,
  • Paul Tiede,
  • Remo P. J. Tilanus,
  • Michael Titus,
  • Pablo Torne,
  • Tyler Trent,
  • Sascha Trippe,
  • Matthew Turk,
  • Huib Jan van Langevelde,
  • Daniel R. van Rossum,
  • Jesse Vos,
  • Jan Wagner,
  • Derek Ward-Thompson,
  • John Wardle,
  • Jonathan Weintroub,
  • Norbert Wex,
  • Robert Wharton,
  • Kaj Wiik,
  • Gunther Witzel,
  • Michael F. Wondrak,
  • George N. Wong,
  • Qingwen Wu,
  • Paul Yamaguchi,
  • Doosoo Yoon,
  • André Young,
  • Ken Young,
  • Ziri Younsi,
  • Feng Yuan,
  • Ye-Fei Yuan,
  • J. Anton Zensus,
  • Shuo Zhang,
  • Shan-Shan Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acaea8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 943, no. 2
p. 170

Abstract

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We report on the observations of the quasar NRAO 530 with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) on 2017 April 5−7, when NRAO 530 was used as a calibrator for the EHT observations of Sagittarius A*. At z = 0.902, this is the most distant object imaged by the EHT so far. We reconstruct the first images of the source at 230 GHz, at an unprecedented angular resolution of ∼20 μ as, both in total intensity and in linear polarization (LP). We do not detect source variability, allowing us to represent the whole data set with static images. The images reveal a bright feature located on the southern end of the jet, which we associate with the core. The feature is linearly polarized, with a fractional polarization of ∼5%–8%, and it has a substructure consisting of two components. Their observed brightness temperature suggests that the energy density of the jet is dominated by the magnetic field. The jet extends over 60 μ as along a position angle ∼ −28°. It includes two features with orthogonal directions of polarization (electric vector position angle), parallel and perpendicular to the jet axis, consistent with a helical structure of the magnetic field in the jet. The outermost feature has a particularly high degree of LP, suggestive of a nearly uniform magnetic field. Future EHT observations will probe the variability of the jet structure on microarcsecond scales, while simultaneous multiwavelength monitoring will provide insight into the high-energy emission origin.

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