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The millimeter VLBI Properties of EGRET Blazars

Astrophysics 2016-08-30 v1

Abstract

We give a progress report on a snapshot 86 GHz-VLBI survey of the EGRET blazars with the observatories of the CMVA. A high fraction (17/18) of the EGRET blazars were detected on the Pico Veleta-Onsala baseline with a baseline length on the order of 500 MλM\lambda. The detection threshold on the Pico Veleta-Onsala baseline was 0.2\sim 0.2 Jy. Six of these sources were not previously detected with 3-millimeter VLBI. We also present the detection of three new non-EGRET sources. The high detection rate for EGRET sources indicates that gamma-ray flux is a robust predictor of millimeter wavelength intensity. Future more sensitive high-energy gamma-ray experiments should find a larger class of objects detectable with millimeter wavelength VLBI.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9908141,
  title  = {The millimeter VLBI Properties of EGRET Blazars},
  author = {Geoffrey C. Bower},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9908141},
  year   = {2016}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Proc. Millimeter VLBI Workshop