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Flares in radio-loud AGN are thought to be associated with the injection of fresh plasma into the compact jet base. Such flares are usually strongest and appear earlier at shorter radio wavelengths. Hence, VLBI at mm-wavelengths is best…

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Long-term 17.6~GHz radio monitoring of the broad absorption line quasar, Mrk\,231, detected a strong flare in late 2017. This triggered four epochs of Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations from 8.4~GHz to 43~GHz over a 10-week period…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-11 Cormac Reynolds , Brian Punsly , Giovanni Miniutti , Christopher P. O'Dea , Natasha Hurley-Walker

NRAO 530 is an optically violent variable source and has been studied with multi-epoch multi-frequency high-resolution VLBI observations. NRAO 530 was monitored with the VLBA at three frequencies (22, 43 and 86 GHz) on 10 consecutive days…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-02 R. -S. Lu , T. P. Krichbaum , J. A. Zensus

We investigate statistical and individual astrophysical properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), such as parsec-scale flux density, core dominance, angular and linear sizes, maximum observed brightness temperatures of VLBI core…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev

We present a comprehensive multifrequency VLBI analysis of the FRII, high-excitation radio galaxy 3C 452, aiming to resolve and analyze for the first time its twin-jet structure on sub-parsec scales. Our data set comprises High Sensitivity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 Eftychia Madika , Bia Boccardi , Luca Ricci , Paola Grandi , Eleonora Torresi , Gabriele Giovannini , Matthias Kadler , J. Anton Zensus

We present an investigation of the compact structure of the AGN 2021+317 based on multi-epoch Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations at 15, 22, and 43 GHz in the period from 2013 through 2024. The VLBI images show a core-jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Haitian Shang , Wei Zhao , Xiaoyu Hong , Leonid I. Gurvits , Ailing Zeng , Tao An , Xiaopeng Cheng

We present results on the compact steep-spectrum quasar 3C 48 from observations with the VLBA, MERLIN and EVN at multiple radio frequencies. In the 1.5-GHz VLBI images, the radio jet is characterized by a series of bright knots. The active…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. An , X. Y. Hong , M. J. Hardcastle , D. M. Worrall , T. Venturi , T. J. Pearson , Z. -Q. Shen , W. Zhao , W. X. Feng

We present multi-frequency observational results for the Compact Steep-Spectrum (CSS) quasar 3C309.1. The observations were carried out with the VSOP at 1.6 and 4.8GHz and the VLBA at 15.4GHz. The source has a distorted, one-sided radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marcin P. Gawronski , Andrzej J. Kus

We present the results of global VLBI observations of the BL Lac object PKS 0003-066 at 2.3 and 8.6 GHz, over a 10 year period using data from new and archived VLBA, geodetic VLBI, and global VLBI (including the use of new disk-based…

We have investigated a frequency-dependent shift in the absolute position of the optically thick apparent origin of parsec-scale jets ("core shift" effect) to probe physical conditions in ultra-compact relativistic outflows in AGN. We used…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-20 A. B. Pushkarev , T. Hovatta , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , A. P. Lobanov , T. Savolainen , J. A. Zensus

The 16th magnitude quasar 3C 345 (redshift z=0.5928) shows structural and emission variability on parsec scales around a compact unresolved radio core. For the last three decades it has been closely monitored with very long baseline…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-31 Frank K. Schinzel , Andrei P. Lobanov , J. Anton Zensus

High-resolution millimeter wave very-long-baseline interferometry (mm-VLBI) is an ideal tool for probing the structure at the base of extragalactic jets in detail. The TeV blazar Mrk 501 is one of the best targets among BL Lac objects for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-12 S. Koyama , M. Kino , M. Giroletti , A. Doi , G. Giovannini , M. Orienti , K. Hada , E. Ros , K. Niinuma , H. Nagai , T. Savolainen , T. P. Krichbaum , M. Á. Pérez-Torres

Maps of the radio source 3C 120 obtained from VLBA+ observations at 8.4 GHz at five epochs in January - September 2002 are presented. The images were reconstructed using the maximum entropy method and the Pulkovo VLBImager software package…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anisa T. Bajkova , Aleksandr B. Pushkarev

We present results of long-term high-frequency VLBI monitoring of the relativistic jet in 3C279, consisting of 18 epochs at 22 GHz from 1991 to 1997 and 10 epochs at 43 GHz from 1995 to 1997. Three major results of this study are: apparent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. E. Wehrle , B. G. Piner , S. C. Unwin , A. C. Zook , W. Xu , A. P. Marscher , H. Terasranta , E. Valtaoja

We present a 16-month sequence of monthly polarimetric 43 GHz VLBA images of the radio galaxy 3C 120. The images probe the inner regions of the radio jet of this relatively nearby superluminal radio galaxy at a linear resolution of 0.07…

Multi-frequency Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) polarimetry observation of the GHz-Peaked Spectrum (GPS) quasar OQ172 (J1445+0958) has been performed at 1.6, 2.2, 4.8, 8.3 and 15.3 GHz in 2005. Core-jet structures are detected in all bands…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-03 Yi Liu , D. R. Jiang , Minfeng Gu , L. I. Gurvits

We present multi-wavelength monitoring results for the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 120 in the MeV/GeV, sub-millimeter, and 43 GHz bands over six years. Over the past two years, Fermi-LAT sporadically detected 3C 120 with high significance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Y. T. Tanaka , A. Doi , Y. Inoue , C. C. Cheung , L. Stawarz , Y. Fukazawa , M. A. Gurwell , M. Tahara , J. Kataoka , R. Itoh

We present multi-frequency VLBA+VLA observations of SS433 at 1.6, 5 and 15 GHz. These observations provide the highest angular resolution radio spectral index maps ever made for this object. Motion of the components of SS433 during the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Z. Paragi , R. C. Vermeulen , I. Fejes , R. T. Schilizzi , R. E. Spencer , A. M. Stirling

Global VLBI observations at 5 GHz have been performed to study the source morphology in 10 compact steep-spectrum (CSS) sources selected from the Peacock & Wall catalogue with the aim of finding asymmetric structures produced by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Dallacasa , M. Orienti , C. Fanti , R. Fanti , C. Stanghellini