The Inner Jet of the Radio Galaxy M87
@article{Kovalev2007TheIJ, title={The Inner Jet of the Radio Galaxy M87}, author={Yuri Y. Kovalev and Matthew L. Lister and Daniel C. Homan and Kenneth I. Kellermann}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal Letters}, year={2007}, volume={668}, pages={L27 - L30} }
We report new 2 cm VLBA images of the inner radio jet of M87 showing a limb-brightened structure and unambiguous evidence for a faint 3 mas long counterfeature which also appears limb brightened. Multiepoch observations of seven separate jet features show typical speeds of less than a few percent of the speed of light, despite the highly asymmetric jet structure and the implications of the canonical relativistic beaming scenario. The observed morphology is consistent with a two-stream spine…
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