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We analysed the parsec-scale linear polarization properties of 436 active galactic nuclei (AGN) based on 15 GHz polarimetric Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations. We present polarization and total intensity images averaged over at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-07 A. B. Pushkarev , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , D. C. Homan , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , I. N. Pashchenko , T. Savolainen , D. Zobnina

Multi-frequency polarimetry with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) telescope has revealed absolute Faraday Rotation Measures (RMs) in excess of 1000 rad/m/m in the central regions of 7 out of 8 strong quasars studied (e.g., 3C 273, 3C…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. B. Taylor

On the kiloparsec scale, extragalactic radio jets show two distinct morphologies related to their power: collimated high-power jets ending in a bright termination shock and low-power jets opening up close to the core and showing a more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 P. R. Burd , M. Kadler , K. Mannheim , A. -K. Baczko , J. Ringholz , E. Ros

We report observations of Faraday rotation measures (RMs) for a sample of 191 extragalactic radio jets observed within the MOJAVE program. Multifrequency VLBA observations were carried out over twelve epochs in 2006 at four frequencies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-12 T. Hovatta , M. L. Lister , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , D. C. Homan , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B. Pushkarev , T. Savolainen

We present circular polarization results from a 5 GHz survey of the parsec-scale polarization properties of 40 AGN made with the VLBA. We find 11 circular polarization detections at the 3 sigma level or higher. This nearly quadruples the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Daniel C. Homan , Joanne M. Attridge , John F. C. Wardle

Evidence that the magnetic fields of extragalactic jets have a significant fraction of their energy in a random component is briefly summarized, and a detailed model of evolving, jet polarization structures is constructed, based on this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Philip A. Hughes

We present full-track high-resolution radio observations of the jet of the galaxy M87 at 8 and 15 GHz. These observations were taken over three consecutive days in May 2009 using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), one antenna of the Very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-31 A. S. Nikonov , Y. Y. Kovalev , E. V. Kravchenko , I. N. Pashchenko , A. P. Lobanov

We investigate the previously proposed possibility that multi-epoch broadband polarimetry could act as a complement or limited proxy for VLBI observations of blazars, in that the number of polarised emission components in the jet, and some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 C. S. Anderson , S. P. O'Sullivan , G. H. Heald , T. Hodgson , A. Pasetto , B. M. Gaensler

(ABRIDGED) We present here the results from new Very Long Baseline Array observations at 1.6 and 5 GHz of 19 galaxies of a complete sample of 21 UGC FRI radio galaxies. New Chandra data of two sources, viz., UGC00408 and UGC08433, are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. Kharb , C. O'Dea , A. Tilak , S. Baum , E. Haynes , J. Noel-Storr , C. Fallon , K. Christiansen

We present the results of a parsec-scale polarization study of three FRI radio galaxies - 3C66B, 3C78 and 3C264 - obtained with the Very Long Baseline Array at 5, 8 and 15 GHz. Parsec-scale polarization has been detected in a large number…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 P. Kharb , D. C. Gabuzda , C. P. O'Dea , P. Shastri , S. A. Baum

Results from a survey of the parsec scale Faraday rotation measure properties for 40 quasars, radio galaxies and BL Lac objects are presented. Core rotation measures for quasars vary from approximately 500 to several thousand radians per…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. T. Zavala , G. B. Taylor

High resolution studies of circular polarization allow us see where it arises in a jet, study its local fractional level and spectrum, and compare these results to local measures of linear polarization and Faraday rotation. Here we not only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel C. Homan , John F. C. Wardle

We aim to better understand the dynamics within relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical flows in the extreme environment and close vicinity of supermassive black holes. To do so, we analyze the peculiar radio galaxy 3C 111, for which long-term…

We have studied the parsec-scale structure of the quasar 3C345 at \lambda\lambda 1.3, 2, 3.6, and 6 cm, using total intensity and linear polarization images from 3 epochs of VLBA observations made in 1995.84, 1996.41, and 1996.81. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ros , J. A. Zensus , A. P. Lobanov

We present two epoch polarimetric images of the BL Lac object 0735+178 obtained with the Very Long Baseline Array at 22 and 43 GHz. These images provide the highest resolution observations of this source to date, and show a twisted jet with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jose-Luis Gomez , Alan P. Marscher , Antonio Alberdi , Denise C. Gabuzda

We interpret the linear polarization structures observed in extragalactic radio sources, even those oriented at oblique angles to the jet flows, to be due to oblique, relativistic shock fronts in the emitting regions. Many sources exhibit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. D. Aller , M. F. Aller , P. A. Hughes

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 used 15 GHz multi-epoch Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) polarization sensitive observations of 484 sources within a time interval 1996--2016 from the MOJAVE program, and also from the NRAO data archive. We have analyzed the linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-11 A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , T. Savolainen , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , M. A. Hodge

The latest results of the most detailed analysis of multi-epoch polarization-sensitive observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets at parsecs scales by very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) reveal several characteristic patterns of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-13 R. V. Todorov , E. V. Kravchenko , I. N. Pashchenko , A. B. Pushkarev

We investigate the magnetic field configuration of the M87 jet at arc-second scales by using archival polarimetric VLA data at 8, 15, 22 and 43 GHz. By stacking images over three years in order to enhance the sensitivity, we reveal, for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-31 J. C. Algaba , K. Asada , M. Nakamura