
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Luo, Qinghuan 
T1  - The Effect of Nonaxisymmetric Radiative Drag on Relativistic Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei
JF  - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
JO  - Publ. Astron. Soc.  Aust.
Y1  - 2001
VL  - 18
IS  - 3
SP  - 215
EP  - 220
KW  - scattering &#8212; plasmas &#8212; relativistic jets &#8212;AGN&#8212; radiation mechanisms: nonthermal
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AS01033 
N2  - The effect of nonaxisymmetric radiation drag on relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is discussed. The radiation force due to inverse Compton scattering of photon fields from a noncircular accretion disk is calculated. It is shown that such nonaxisymmetric drag can cause jet path distortion within the subparsec region of the black hole. This subparsec scale distortion is potentially observable with the current VLBI, VLBA techniques. Any modulation of the axially asymmetric distribution of disk emission can result in variability in electromagnetic radiation from the jet. 
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