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A compact steep spectrum radio source (J0535-0452) is located in the sky coincident with a bright optical rim in the HII region NGC1977. J0535-0452 is observed to be $\leq 100$ mas in angular size at 8.44 GHz. The spectrum for the radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-09-17 D. Anish Roshi , Scott M. Ransom

We present a large sample of 501 radio-selected BL Lac candidates from the combination of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 optical spectroscopy and from the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (FIRST) radio…

We present high-resolution observations, using both the European VLBI Network (EVN) at 1.7-GHz, and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 5 and 8.4-GHz to image radio structures of 14 compact sources classified as broad absorption line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Ceglowski , M. Kunert-Bajraszewska , C. Roskowinski

We present high-resolution radio observations of a sample of 65 radio sources at low Galactic latitudes. The sources were all observed at 5 GHz with the Very Large Array A-array. MERLIN observations at 5 GHz of the ultracompact HII region…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. J. Saikia , P. Thomasson , S. Roy , A. Pedlar , T. W. B. Muxlow

We present observations at 1.7 and 8.4 GHz of two Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) sources from a complete sample of low-intermediate power radio galaxies. 3C346 shows an asymmetric structure with a one-sided ``jet'' and ``hot spot''. Present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 W. D. Cotton , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini , T. Venturi , L. Lara , J. Marcaide , A. E. Wehrle

Radio activity has been observed in a large variety of stellar objects, including in the last few years, ultra-cool dwarfs. To explore the extent of long-term radio activity in ultra-cool dwarfs, we use data taken over an extended period of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Antonova , J. G. Doyle , G. Hallinan , A. Golden , C. Koen

We present high-resolution observations made with the Very Large Array (VLA) in its A configuration at frequencies between 5 and 43 GHz of a sample of five massive young stellar objects (YSOs): LkHa101, NGC2024-IRS2, S106-IR, W75N and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Gibb , M. G. Hoare

A substantial fraction of quasars display broad absorption lines (BALs) in their rest-frame ultraviolet spectra. While the origin of BALs is thought to be related to the accretion disc wind, it remains unclear whether the observed ratio of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-22 Takayuki J. Hayashi , Akihiro Doi , Hiroshi Nagai

The spectra of fast radio bursts (FRBs) encode valuable information about the source's local environment, underlying emission mechanism(s), and the intervening media along the line of sight. We present results from a long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Aaron B. Pearlman , Walid A. Majid , Thomas A. Prince , Kenzie Nimmo , Jason W. T. Hessels , Charles J. Naudet , Jonathon Kocz

We report on the first high frequency VLBI observations of the nearby broad absorption line quasar (BALQSO), Mrk 231. Three epochs of observations were achieved at 15 GHz and 22 GHz, two of these included 43 GHz observations as well. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Cormac Reynolds , Brian Punsly , Preeti Kharb , Christopher P. O'Dea , Joan Wrobel

Jets of high-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can be used to directly probe the activity of the black holes in the early Universe. Radio sources with jets misaligned with respect to the line of sight are expected to dominate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 Yingkang Zhang , Tao An , Sándor Frey , Xiaolong Yang , Máté Krezinger , Oleg Titov , Alexey Melnikov , Pablo de Vicente , Fengchun Shu , Ailing Wang

We present a multiband study of FRB 20180916B, a repeating source with a 16.3 day periodicity. We report the detection of 4, 1 and 7 bursts from observations spanning 3 days using upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (300-500 MHz),…

The optically variable source SDSS J124602.54+011318.8 first appears in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data as a bright point source with nonstellar colors. Subsequent SDSS imaging and spectroscopy showed that the point source declined or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Avishay Gal-Yam , Eran O. Ofek , Alexei V. Filippenko , Ryan Chornock , Weidong Li

There are approximately 250 quasars discovered at redshift $z\geq6$, of which only a handful were detected in radio bands, and even fewer were imaged with the highest resolution very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique. Here we…

Ofek (2017) identified FIRST J141918.9+394036 (hereafter FIRST J1419+3940) as a radio source sharing similar properties and host galaxy type to the compact, persistent radio source associated with the first known repeating fast radio burst,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 B. Marcote , K. Nimmo , O. S. Salafia , Z. Paragi , J. W. T. Hessels , E. Petroff , R. Karuppusamy

This paper presents the fifth part of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) Calibrator Survey (VCS), containing 569 sources not observed previously with very long baseline interferometry in geodetic or absolute astrometry programs. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Y. Kovalev , L. Petrov , E. B. Fomalont , D. Gordon

We present high angular resolution imaging of the quasar PSO J172.3556+18.7734 at $z=6.82$ with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). This source currently holds the record of being the highest redshift radio-loud quasar. These observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-14 Emmanuel Momjian , Eduardo Bañados , Christopher L. Carilli , Fabian Walter , Chiara Mazzucchelli

We present e-MERLIN and EVN observations which reveal unambiguous jet activity within radio quiet quasar HS~0810+2554. With an intrinsic flux density of 880~nJy, this is the faintest radio source ever imaged. The findings present new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 P. Hartley , N. Jackson , D. Sluse , H. R. Stacey , H. Vives-Arias

We report the results of several programs to study the variability of high-velocity (up to 0.2c) mini-"broad absorption lines" (mini-BALs) and BALs in quasar spectra, and thus to better characterize the structural and physical properties of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-20 Paola Rodriguez Hidalgo , Fred Hamann , Michael Eracleous , Daniel Capellupo , Jane Charlton , Joseph Shields

We present the data and analysis of VLBI observations at 1.6, 5 and 15 GHz of a sample of faint Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources selected from the Westerbork Northern Sky Survey (WENSS). The 5 GHz observations involved a global array…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Ignas Snellen , Richard Schilizzi , Huib-Jan van Langevelde