A VLBA MOVIE OF THE JET LAUNCH REGION IN M87

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A VLBA MOVIE OF THE JET LAUNCH REGION IN M87 R. Craig Walker NRAO Collaborators: Chun Ly (UCLA - was an NRAO summer student) William Junor (LANL), Philip Hardee (U. Alabama) M87 - Walker Universe under the Microscope April 2008

OUR MICROSCOPE: THE VLBA Ten 25m Antennas, 20 Station Correlator 327 MHz - 86 GHz National Radio Astronomy Observatory A Facility of the National Science Foundation Resolution at 43 GHz: 0.2 milliarcseconds

MOTIVATION - JET LAUNCH REGION Jet launch and collimation theory is progressing rapidly Jets are a natural consequence of accretion Magnetic fields play a critical role Black hole spin is important Typical structure includes a central fast (Poynting?) jet and slower sheath anchored in the disk The Poynting jet transitions to a kinetic dominated jet downstream Simulations reaching observable scales Our goal is to provide a data set that constrains the theory Max scale 40 c2/(GM) 103 McKinney & Narayan 2007

M87 - THE BEST SOURCE FOR IMAGING A JET BASE Large angular size black hole Large black hole mass: ~3X109 Msun Nearby: 16 Mpc VLBA resolution is about 60 Schwarzschild radii at 43 GHz Scale 1 mas ~ 0.078pc = 300 Rs. 1 c = 4 mas/yr Jet is bright enough to see significant structure Core has about 0.7 Jy at 43 GHz - can self-calibrate Jet well resolved transversely very near core Can be seen by northern hemisphere instruments Well studied at all wavelengths from radio to TEV M87 - Walker Universe under the Microscope April 2008

HIGH RESOLUTION STRUCTURE 15 GHz 15, 43, and 86 GHz images Wide opening angle base Unique to M87: Aproaching launch region Edge brightened Counter feature 20 mas 1 mas = 0.078 pc = 300 Rs Krichbaum 43 GHz 86 GHz 5 mas 1 mas M87 - Walker Universe under the Microscope April 2008

VLBI SUBLUMINAL MOTION MEASUREMENTS Many VLBI observations show slow motions VLBA < 0.1c (Biretta & Junor 1995; Junor & Biretta 1995) VSOP No motions (Dodson et al 2006) VLBI 1.6 GHz 0.28c (Reid et al 1989) VLBA 43 GHz 0.25-0.40c (Ly et al 2007) Perhaps best case is 15 GHz monitoring (Kovalev et al. 2007) A few percent of the speed of light Sampling interval 5±3 months Slow material or patterns, perhaps from instabilities? M87 - Walker Universe under the Microscope April 2008

Universe under the Microscope April 2008 SUPERLUMINAL MOTIONS VLA Typical 0.5 c, but up to 2.5c (Biretta et al 1995) HST-1 Optical with HST (Biretta et al 1999) Knot at 0.9” (70pc projected) Speeds ~5-6 c HST-1 VLBA 20cm (Cheung et al 2007) Speeds 2.5 - 4.5 c. Feature near core slow HST-1 Plausible site for TEV emission M87 - Walker Universe under the Microscope April 2008

ARE THE VLBI OBSERVATIONS UNDERSAMPLED? Previous VLBI observations had sampling intervals of months to years Is this too slow? 43 GHz beam is 0.2 mas 1 c is 4 mas/yr or 1 beamwidth in 18 days 6 c is 24 mas/yr or 1 beamwidth in 3 days Observations every few months far too slow But clearly some features are slow - patterns? VLBA 43 GHz movie project - fast sampling at high resolution M87 - Walker Universe under the Microscope April 2008

Universe under the Microscope April 2008 PILOT PROJECT Day 0 Day 3 Day 10 Day 97 Day 35 Day 13 To determine movie frame rate: VLBA 43 GHz 2006 10hr observations, 128 Mbps, full polarization Good consistency between close epochs Motions near 2.2 mas/yr (0.6c) at 1.5 mas from core About 1.5 mas/yr near core Superluminal motions not seen Feature east of core still seen No PT Beam: 0.42x0.18 mas 0.2mas = 0.016pc = 60Rs 1mas/yr = 0.25c M87 - Walker Universe under the Microscope April 2008

Universe under the Microscope April 2008 THE VLBA 43 GHz M87 MOVIE Observed 18 frames at 3 week intervals Interval based on Pilot Project results Dynamic scheduling within windows of ±5 days Observations from Jan. 27, 2007 to Jan. 21, 2008 Fast sampling project - 5 day intervals Three week intervals under sampled the motions Jan. 26 to April 5, 2008 (14 frames) Observational parameters 10 hr at 256 Mbps (Twice the bandwidth of pilot) Full stokes Primary calibrators 3C279 and OJ287 Processing far from complete M87 - Walker Universe under the Microscope April 2008

The VLBA 43 GHz M87 Movie First 9 Observations Stacked 5 mas Beam: 0.56x0.41 mas 0.2mas = 0.016pc = 60Rs 1mas/yr = 0.25c Resolution reduced to show low level features M87 - Walker Universe under the Microscope April 2008

The VLBA 43 GHz M87 Movie First 11 Observations Beam: 0.43x0.21 mas 0.2mas = 0.016pc = 60Rs 1mas/yr = 0.25c M87 - Walker Universe under the Microscope April 2008

Universe under the Microscope April 2008 PRELIMINARY RESULTS Superluminal speeds (~2c) Indeed - previous observations were undersampled Visible portion is relativistic. Not a slow sheath. Hints of a spine seen. Fast changing structure Not clear “components” Reminiscent of a smoke plume. The counter feature Always there. Real. Nature of dynamics not yet clear at all Inner jet, counter jet, or something else --- not clear Need to finish imaging, get polarization results, and get proper motion results relative to M84. M87 - Walker Universe under the Microscope April 2008

Prospects for Higher Resolution Global VLBI at 86 GHz Krichbaum et al 2007 Starting to resolve high opening angle region Data from Apr 2004 Beam 0.20 x 0.066 mas Peak 0.38 Jy Lowest contour 1.1 mJy VSOP2 at 43 GHz Japanese space VLBI project Approved 2012 launch Movie frame rate of 1 or 2 days 1mas=300Rs M87 - Walker Universe under the Microscope April 2008

VLBA SENSITIVITY UPGRADE Increase continuum sensitivity by more than 5X Increase bandwidth to 1 GHz (4 Gbps) 32X current sustainable bandwidth, 8X current peak New digital backend, recording system, software correlator All systems to be tested in 2008, deployed by 2009 The major cost is disk supply - goal of sustained use by 2011 Improved 22 GHz amplifiers 30% sensitivity gain for line and continuum MPIfR funding. Finished Jan. 2008 Support H2O megamaser project to measure Ho Impact on future M87 observations Lower level structure, “counterjet”, polarization Proper motions and core stability from improved astrometry Higher resolution at 86 GHz and with VSOP2 at 43 GHz

Universe under the Microscope April 2008 THE END M87 - Walker Universe under the Microscope April 2008