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Toy Model of Frame-Dragging Magnetosphere for the M87 Jet

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We make a toy model for M87 jet to interpret its parabolic structure and acceleration in the apparent speeds, according to observations in milli-arcsecond to arcsecond scales upstream of HST-1. The outermost layer of jet is driven by the frame-dragging effect in the Kerr spacetime with a slowly to moderately-spinning black hole. The corresponding magnetosphere has a foot-point R 0 in the vicinity of event-horizon, and rotating at a frequency ΩF equal to that of the frame-dragging ω(R 0).

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This work is partly supported by the China Ministry of Science and Technology under State Key Development Programme for Basic Research (2012CB821800), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants 10625314, 11121062, 11173046, 11203055 and 11173011), the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Programme for Creative Research Teams, and the Strategic Priority Research Programme on Space Science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA04060700 and XDB09000000).

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  1. Key Laboratory for Research in Galaxies and Cosmology, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200030, China

    Lei Huang & Zhi-Qiang Shen

  2. Key Laboratory of Radio Astronomy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

    Lei Huang & Zhi-Qiang Shen

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Huang, L., Shen, ZQ. Toy Model of Frame-Dragging Magnetosphere for the M87 Jet. J Astrophys Astron 35, 413–416 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12036-014-9244-6

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