Black hole magnetic fields and their imprint on circular polarization images

A Ricarte, R Qiu, R Narayan - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The circular polarization of black hole accretion flows can encode properties of the
underlying magnetic field structure. Using general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic …

From electrons to Janskys: Full stokes polarized radiative transfer in 3D relativistic particle-in-cell jet simulations

NR MacDonald, KI Nishikawa - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Despite decades of dedicated observation and study, the underlying plasma
composition of relativistic extragalactic jets remains largely unknown. Aims. Relativistic …