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Properties and Evolution of AGN Jet Ridge Lines: The Caltech-Jodrell Bank Flat-Spectrum Sample

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2010-07-09 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We investigate the jet morphology and kinematics of a statistically complete radio-loud AGN sample in terms of the gamma-ray properties of the sources. Gamma-ray detected AGN dominate the high end of the jet apparent speed distribution of the total sample. Gamma-variable sources show stronger evolution in their jet morphology. A 5.1% of the sources show large (> 15 degrees) swings in their jet ejection angle.

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@article{arxiv.1007.1318,
  title  = {Properties and Evolution of AGN Jet Ridge Lines: The Caltech-Jodrell Bank Flat-Spectrum Sample},
  author = {Marios Karouzos and Silke Britzen and Andreas Eckart and Anton Zensus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.1318},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

2 pages, 1 figure, conference proceedings from "The 9th Hellenic Astronomical Conference", to be published by ASP (Vol. CS 424)