J/other/Sci/338.ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/Sci/338.355CDSDoeleman S.S.Fish V.L.Schenck D.E.Beaudoin C.Blundell R.,Bower G.C.Broderick A.E.Chamberlin R.Freund R.Friberg P.,Gurwell M.A.Ho P.T.P.Honma M.Inoue M.Krichbaum T.P.Lamb J.,Loeb A.Lonsdale C.Marrone D.P.Moran J.M.Oyama T.Plambeck R.,Peimiani R.A.Rogers A.E.E.Smythe D.L.Soohoo J.Strittmatter P.,Tilanus R.P.J.Titus M.Weintroub J.Wright M.Young K.H.Ziurys L.M.2013-02-14T05:49:00Z2013-01-25T16:04:34ZCDS support team

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cds-question@unistra.frgalaxiesvery-long-baseline-interferometryApproximately 10% of active galactic nuclei exhibit relativistic jets, which are powered by the accretion of matter onto supermassive black holes. Although the measured width profiles of such jets on large scales agree with theories of magnetic collimation, the predicted structure on accretion disk scales at the jet launch point has not been detected. We report radio interferometry observations, at a wavelength of 1.3 millimeters, of the elliptical galaxy M87 that spatially resolve the base of the jet in this source. The derived size of 5.5+/-0.4 Schwarzschild radii is significantly smaller than the innermost edge of a retrograde accretion disk, suggesting that the M87 jet is powered by an accretion disk in a prograde orbit around a spinning black hole.2012Sci...338..355Dhttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/other/Sci/338.355CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic servicerelated-toJ/AJ/133/2357 : Relativistic jets in the RRFID database (Piner+, 2007)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/other/Sci/338.355https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/other/Sci/338.355http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/other/Sci/338.355https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/other/Sci/338.355https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/other/Sci/338.355http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/other/Sci/338.355GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap1.528037907652962e-22 1.528037907652962e-22RadiodefaultJ/other/Sci/338.355/tables21.3mm VLBI detections of M87 in April 2009recnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintDayDay of year 2009dtime.epochintTimeUT star timetime.epochnullableBaseBaselineinstr.baselinecharBandObserved band ("high" or "low")instr.bandpasscharuu projection of the baseline length (1)instr.baselineintvv projection of the baseline length (1)instr.baselineintFluxFlux density at 1.3mmJyphot.flux.density;em.mm.200-400GHzfloate_Fluxrms uncertainty on Flux (2)Jystat.error;phot.fluxfloat