M87 jet structure (IMAGE)

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M87 jet structure

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(Top panel) M87 jet structure at 43 GHz averaged over every two years from 2013 to 2018. The corresponding years are indicated in the left-top corner. The white arrows indicate the jet position angle in each subplot. (Bottom panel) Observed evolution of jet direction between 2000 and 2022. The green and blue points are obtained from observations at 22 and 43 GHz. The red line represents a best-fit sinusoidal curve with a period of 11 years.

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Yuzhu Cui et al. (2023)

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