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2025A&A...696L...8N - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 696L8 (2025/4-1)

Intergalactic magnetism in a γ-ray beam as a model of Porphyrion.

NERONOV A., VAZZA F., BRANDENBURG A. and CAPRINI C.

Abstract (from CDS):

We estimate the magnetic field in the jets of the recently discovered 7 Mpc long Porphyrion system. We used nondetection of the system in gamma-rays to derive a lower bound on the co-moving magnetic field strength at the level of ∼10 nG (comoving). This value is consistent with recent estimates of magnetic fields in the filaments of the large-scale structure. We discuss the possibility that, instead of being the extreme case of a radio jet formation scenario, Porphyrion actually traces a very high-energy γ-ray beam emitted by an active galactic nucleus. In such a model, jets do not need to spread into the voids of the large-scale structure to appear straight on a very large distance range, and several anomalies of the standard radio jet scenarios can be solved at once.

Abstract Copyright: © The Authors 2025

Journal keyword(s): magnetic fields - galaxies: active - galaxies: jets - large-scale structure of Universe - gamma rays: galaxies - radio lines: galaxies

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