Proposal code

v129

Proposal title

The Obscuring System in 3C 84

The

Investigators and their

Affiliations

P.I. INOUE Makoto NAO
Denise C. GABUZDA ASC, Lebedev Physical Institute
KAMENO Seiji NAO
HORIUCHI Shinji NAO

Proposal Abstract

The nearby AGN 3C 84 has several indications of obscuring material around the VLBI structure of ~ 15 mas. First, a toroidal or disklike region of gas is suggested from the spectrum of the counterjet. Second, the absence of detectable polarization in observations made thus far suggests the existence of dense plasma that reduces the intrinsic polarization by large Faraday rotation. We propose systematic high quality imaging, recombination line absorption, and polarimetric observations to reveal the obscuring system of 3C84.

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