Oral Presentation

Modeling Parabolic Jets from the Spinning Black Hole

Author(s): Masanori Nakamura (ASIAA)

Presenter: Masanori Nakamura (ASIAA)

Relativistic jets from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are one of major problems in high energy/black hole astrophysics since 1918 when the jet was first discovered in the nearby radio galaxy M87. Even now the origin of AGN jets has not yet been resolved, but the "Event Horizon Telescope" project including the ASIAA-led Greenland Telescope will finally reveal the formation region of the M87 jet in coming years. In this talk, we introduce simulation results of superluminal knot ejections and the limb-brightened structure in black hole-driven jets. Our findings can be examined with multi frequency VLBI observations, giving a clue for understanding AGN jets in general.