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Intergalactic magnetism in a γ -ray beam as a model of Porphyrion
Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, 75006 Paris, France; Laboratory of Astrophysics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universita di Bologna, Via Gobetti 93/2, 40129 Bologna, Italy, Via Gobetti 93/2; INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy, Via P. Gobetti 101.
KTH, Centres, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics NORDITA. Nordita, Stockholm University, Hannes Alfvéns väg 12, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden, Hannes Alfvéns väg 12; The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, AlbaNova 10691, Stockholm, Sweden, AlbaNova; McWilliams Center for Cosmology, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; School of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Ilia State University, 3-5 Cholokashvili Avenue, 0194 Tbilisi, Georgia.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7304-021X
Département de Physique Théorique, Center for Astroparticle Physics, Université de Genève, 1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland; Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
2025 (English)In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, ISSN 0004-6361, E-ISSN 1432-0746, Vol. 696, article id L8Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

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 -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.

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EDP Sciences , 2025. Vol. 696, article id L8
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Galaxies: active, Galaxies: jets, Gamma rays: galaxies, Large-scale structure of Universe, Magnetic fields, Radio lines: galaxies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-362528DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202453099Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105002282104OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-362528DiVA, id: diva2:1952976
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