We are using the VLBA at 8 GHz to observe a sample of 834 nearby 2MASS galaxies that are stronger than 100 mJy in the NVSS. The goals of the project are to detect (1) supermassive black holes significantly offset from the IR positions of the host galaxy bulges and (2) binary black holes.
@article{arxiv.1110.6252,
title = {VLBA observations of a complete sample of 2MASS galaxies},
author = {Jim Condon and Jeremy Darling and Yuri Y. Kovalev and Leonid Petrov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.6252},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
2 pages, 2 figures. To be published in the proceedings of the 11th Asian-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting; NARIT Conference Series (NCS)