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2026
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Dynamics and geometry of the inner sub-parsec-scale jet in 3C 279 observed with the Event Horizon Telescope
Hendrik Mueller, S von Fellenberg, Ai-Ling Zeng, Paul Tiede, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Roman Gold, Tuomas Savolainen, Jae-Young Kim, Sijia Peng, Teresa Toscano, Michael Janssen, Boris Georgiev, Dhanya G. Nair, Iniyan Natarajan, Lindy Blackburn, Kazunori Akiyama, Ezequiel Albentosa-Ruíz, Antxon Alberdi, Walter Alef, Juan Carlos Algaba, Rohan Ganesh Amanaganti, Richard Anantua, Eleni Antonopoulou, Keiichi Asada, Rebecca Azulay, Anne-Kathrin Baczko, David Ball, Bidisha Bandyopadhyay, John Barrett, Michi Bauböck, Bradford A. Benson, Dan Bintley, Raymond Blundell, Katherine L. Bouman, Geoffrey C. Bower, M Bremer, Roger Brissenden, Silke Britzen, Avery E. Broderick, Dominique Broguière, Thomas Bronzwaer, Sandra Bustamante, Douglas F. Carlos, John E. Carlstrom, Andrew Chael, Chi-kwan Chan, Chin-Shin Chang, Dominic O. Chang, Koushik Chatterjee, Erandi Chavez, Ming‐Tang Chen, Yongjun Chen, Xiaopeng Cheng, Paul Chichura, Ilje Cho, Nicholas S. Conroy, J E Conway, Thomas M. Crawford, Geoffrey B. Crew, Alejandro Cruz-Osorio, Yuzhu Cui, Brandon Curd, Rohan Dahale, Jordy Davelaar, Joost de Kleuver, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Roger Deane, Jason Dexter, Vedant Dhruv, Indu K. Dihingia, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Sergio A. Dzib, Razieh Emami, Heino Falcke, Joseph Farah, Vincent L. Fish, Edward Fomalont, H. Alyson Ford, Marianna Foschi, Raquel Fraga-Encinas, William T. Freeman, Per Friberg, Christian M. Fromm, Antonio Fuentes, Peter Galison, Charles F. Gammie, R Garcia, Olivier Gentaz, C. Goddi, Arturo I. Gomez-Ruiz, Brissa Gómez Miller, Jose L. Gomez, Minfeng Gu, Mark Gurwell, Kazuhiro Hada, Daryl Haggard, Ronald Hesper, Dirk Heumann, Luis C. Ho, Paul Ho, Mareki Honma, Chih-Wei L. Huang, Huang Lj, David H. Hughes, Shiro Ikeda, C. M. Violette Impellizzeri, Makoto Inoue, Sara Issaoun, Yuhei Iwata, David J. James, Buell T. Jannuzi, Britton Jeter, Wu Jiang, Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales, K. Johns, Svetlana Jorstad, Adam C. Jones, Abhishek V. Joshi, Taehyun Jung, Tomohisa Kawashima, Garrett K. Keating, Mark Kettenis, Dong-Jin Kim, Jongsoo Kim, Junhan Kim, Motoki Kino, Jakob Knollmüller, Jun Yi Koay, Prashant Kocherlakota, Yutaro Kofuji, Patrick M. Koch, Shoko Koyama, Carsten Kramer, Joana A. Kramer, Michael Kramer, C M Kuo, Noemi La Bella, Deokhyeong Lee, Sang-Sung Lee, Aviad Levis, Shaoliang Li, Zhiyuan Li, Rocco Lico, Greg Lindahl, Michael Lindqvist, M M Lisakov, Jun Liu, Kuo Liu, Elisabetta Liuzzo, Wen-Ping Lo, A P Lobanov, Laurent Loinard, Colin J. Lonsdale, Amy E. Lowitz, Ru-Sen Lu, Nicholas R. MacDonald, Jirong Mao, Nicola Marchili, Sera Markoff, Daniel P. Marrone, Alan P. Marscher, Ivan Marti-Vidal, Satoki Matsushita, Lynn D. Matthews, Lia Medeiros, Karl M. Menten, Hugo Messias, Izumi Mizuno, Yosuke Mizuno, Joshua Montgomery, Kotaro Moriyama, Monika Moscibrodzka, Wanga Mulaudzi, Cornelia Müller, Alejandro Mus, Gibwa Musoke, Ioannis Myserlis, Hiroshi Nagai, Neil M. Nagar, Masanori Nakamura, Gopal Narayanan, Antonios Nathanail, Santiago Navarro Fuentes, Joey Neilsen, Chunchong Ni, Andy Nilipour, Michael A. Nowak, Hiroki Okino, Héctor Raúl Olivares Sánchez, Feryal Özel, Daniel C. M. Palumbo, Georgios Filippos Paraschos, Jongho Park, Harriet Parsons, N. Patel, Ue-Li Pen, Dominic W. Pesce, Vincent Pietu, Alexander Plavin, Aleksandar PopStefanija, Oliver Porth, Cora Prather, Giacomo Principe, Dimitrios Psaltis, Hung-Yi Pu, Alexandra Rahlin, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan, Ramprasad Rao, Mark G. Rawlings, Luciano Rezzolla, Angelo Ricarte, Luca Ricci, Bart Ripperda, Jan Röder, Freek Roelofs, Cristina Romero-Cañizales, Eduardo Ros, Arash Roshanineshat, Helge Rottmann, A Roy, Ignacio Ruiz, Chet Ruszczyk, Kazi L. J. Rygl, Leon D. S. Salas, Salvador Sanchez, David Sánchez-Argüelles, Miguel Sanchez-Portal, Ali SaraerToosi, Mahito Sasada, Kaushik Satapathy, Saurabh, K Schuster, Zhiqiang Shen, Sasikumar Silpa, Randall Smith, Bong Won Sohn, Jason SooHoo, Kamal Souccar, Joshua S. Stanway, He Sun, Alexandra J. Tetarenko, Remo P. J. Tilanus, M. A. Titus, Kenji Toma, Pablo Torne, Efthalia Traianou, Sascha Trippe, Matthew Turk, Akhil Uniyal, Ilse van Bemmel, Bram van den Berg, Huib Jan van Langevelde, Daniel R. van Rossum, Jesse Vos, Jan Wagner, Zhiren Wang, Derek Ward-Thompson, John Wardle, Jasmin E. Washington, Jonathan Weintroub, Maciek Wielgus, Kaj Wiik, Michael F. Wondrak, George N. Wong, Jompoj Wongphexhauxsorn, Qile Wu, Paul Yamaguchi, Aristomenis Yfantis, Doosoo Yoon, Andre Young, Ziri Younsi, W K Yu, Feng Yuan, Ye-Fei Yuan, J. Anton Zensus, Shuo Zhang, Brandon Zhao, Guang-Yao Zhao
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The 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations resolve the innermost jet region of the blazar 3C279 with unprecedented detail. The reconstructed images consistently reveal a compact core elongated nearly orthogonal to the large-scale jet axis. This rarely observed morphology recurs across multiple epochs and from 22-230 GHz and is therefore intrinsic rather than an imaging artifact. Geometric model fitting identifies several components with apparent speeds up to 10c, requiring bulk Lorentz factors greater than 10.3 and constraining viewing angles to extremely small values (smaller than one degree). Rest-frame brightness temperatures are systematically low (between 10^9 and 10^10 K), consistent with optically thin emission at 230 GHz. These results suggest that the jet bends toward the observer on sub-parsec scales, producing strong relativistic beaming. Possible drivers of the observed jet bending and temporal evolution include the jet's interaction with the interstellar medium, kink or Kelvin--Helmholtz instabilities, magnetic reconnection near the horizon, or binary-induced precession. However, the current temporal coverage of VLBI data remains insufficient to distinguish between these mechanisms. Continued multifrequency VLBI monitoring will be essential to constraining the dynamics and geometry of the jet base in 3C279.
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