Detection statistics of the RadioAstron AGN survey
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2020-01-09 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
The largest Key Science Program of the RadioAstron space VLBI mission is a survey of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The main goal of the survey is to measure and study the brightness of AGN cores in order to better understand the physics of their emission while taking interstellar scattering into consideration. In this paper we present detection statistics for observations on ground-space baselines of a complete sample of radio-strong AGN at the wavelengths of 18, 6, and 1.3 cm. Two-thirds of them are indeed detected by RadioAstron and are found to contain extremely compact, tens to hundreds of as structures within their cores.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1909.00785,
title = {Detection statistics of the RadioAstron AGN survey},
author = {Y. Y. Kovalev and N. S. Kardashev and K. V. Sokolovsky and P. A. Voitsik and T. An and J. M. Anderson and A. S. Andrianov and V. Yu. Avdeev and N. Bartel and H. E. Bignall and M. S. Burgin and P. G. Edwards and S. P. Ellingsen and S. Frey and C. Garcia-Miro and M. P. Gawronski and F. D. Ghigo and T. Ghosh and G. Giovannini and I. A. Girin and M. Giroletti and L. I. Gurvits and D. L. Jauncey and S. Horiuchi and D. V. Ivanov and M. A. Kharinov and J. Y. Koay and V. I. Kostenko and A. V. Kovalenko and Yu. A. Kovalev and E. V. Kravchenko and M. Kunert-Bajraszewska and A. M. Kutkin and S. F. Likhachev and M. M. Lisakov and I. D. Litovchenko and J. N. McCallum and A. Melis and A. E. Melnikov and C. Migoni and D. G. Nair and I. N. Pashchenko and C. J. Phillips and A. Polatidis and A. B. Pushkarev and J. F. H. Quick and I. A. Rakhimov and C. Reynolds and J. R. Rizzo and A. G. Rudnitskiy and T. Savolainen and N. N. Shakhvorostova and M. V. Shatskaya and Z. -Q. Shen and M. A. Shchurov and R. C. Vermeulen and P. de Vicente and P. Wolak and J. A. Zensus and V. A. Zuga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.00785},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
Accepted to the Advances in Space Research special issue "High-resolution Space-Borne Radio Astronomy"