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We report new 2 cm VLBA images of the inner radio jet of M87 showing a limb brightened structure and unambiguous evidence for a faint 3 mas long counter-feature which also appears limb brightened. Multi-epoch observations of seven separate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-29 Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , D. C. Homan , K. I. Kellermann

Relativistic jets propagating through an ambient medium must produce some observational effects along their side boundaries because of interactions across the large velocity gradient. One possible effect of such an interaction would be a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 M. G. Dainotti , M. Ostrowski , D. Harris , A. Siemiginowska , H. Siejkowski

A comprehensively theoretical analysis on the broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of large-scale jet knots in 3C 273 is presented for revealing their X-ray radiation mechanism. We show that these SEDs cannot be explained with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Zhen-Jie Wang , Jin Zhang , Xiao-Na Sun , En-Wei Liang

We report new results from a sub-parsec scale study of the inner jet in M87 performed at 15 GHz with the Very Long Baseline Array. We have detected a limb brightened structure of the jet along with a faint 3 mas long counter-feature which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-14 Y. Y. Kovalev

Cygnus X-1 is a well observed microquasar. Broadband observations at all wavelengths have been collected over the years. The origin of the MeV tail observed with COMPTEL and INTEGRAL is still under debate and it has mostly been attributed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-02 Carolina Pepe , Gabriela S. Vila , Gustavo E. Romero

Our Chandra observation of the FRI radio galaxy 3C66B has resulted in the first detection of an X-ray counterpart to the previously known radio, infra-red and optical jet. The X-ray jet is detected up to 7 arcsec from the core and has a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 M. J. Hardcastle , M. Birkinshaw , D. M. Worrall

Recent radio and optical large scale jets' observations suggest a two-component jet morphology, consisting of a fast central spine surrounded with a boundary layer with a velocity shear. We study radiation of electrons accelerated at such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Stawarz , M. Ostrowski

Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations at 230 GHz are combined with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations at 86 GHz and high resolution Hubble Space Telescope optical observations in order to constrain the broadband…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 Brian Punsly

The low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei M87, archetype of Fanaroff-Riley I radio-galaxies, was observed in a historically quiet state in 2017. While one-zone leptonic jet models alone cannot explain the core radio-to-gamma-ray spectrum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Margot Boughelilba , Anita Reimer , Lukas Merten

We study the centimeter- to millimeter-wavelength synchrotron spectrum of the core of the radio galaxy M87 at $\lesssim0.8\,{\rm mas}~\sim110R_{s}$ spatial scales using four years of fully simultaneous, multi-frequency VLBI data obtained by…

We present the first results from an X-ray and optical survey of a sample of AGN radio jets with Chandra and HST. We focus here on the first six sources observed at X-rays, in four of which a bright X-ray jet was detected for the first…

We present a reconstruction of jet geometry models using numerical methods based on a Markov ChainMonte Carlo (MCMC) and limited memory Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) optimized algorithm. Our aim is to model the three-dimensional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-10 Kunyang Li , Katie Kosak , Sayali S. Avachat , Eric S. Perlman

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) imaging of radio emission from extragalactic jets provides a unique probe of physical mechanisms governing the launching, acceleration, and collimation of relativistic outflows. The two-dimensional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-02 F. Mertens , A. P. Lobanov , R. C. Walker , P. E. Hardee

Observational constraints of relativistic jets from black holes has largely come from the most powerful and extended jets\cite{Jorstad05,Asada14}, leaving the nature of the low luminosity jets a mystery\cite{Falcke04}. M81* is one of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-20 Ashley L. King , Jon M. Miller , Michael Bietenholz , Kayhan Gültekin , Mark T. Reynolds , Amy Mioduszewski , Michael Rupen , Norbert Bartel

We study the acceleration, transport, and emission of particles in relativistic jets. Localized stochastic particle acceleration, spatial diffusion, and synchrotron as well as synchrotron self-Compton emission are considered in a leptonic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Xuhui Chen , Martin Pohl , Markus Boettcher

We report on archival data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory for the radio jet of 3C120. We consider the emission process responsible for the X-rays from 4 knots using spectra constructed from radio, optical, and X-ray intensities. While a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. E. Harris , A. E. Mossman , R. C. Walker

There is theoretical and observational evidence that the jet core position changes with frequency. However, the core position for a given frequency may vary with time in the case of flares or for a precessing jet. In this work, we want to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 R. Sharma , M. Massi , G. Torricelli-Ciamponi

We report our independent image reconstruction of the M 87 from the public data of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaborators (EHTC). Our result is different from the image published by the EHTC. Our analysis shows that (a) the structure at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Makoto Miyoshi , Yoshiaki Kato , Junichiro Makino

We present a detailed study of the X-ray, optical and radio emission from the jet, lobes and core of the quasar PKS 2101-490 as revealed by new Chandra, HST and ATCA images. We extract the radio to X-ray spectral energy distributions from…

In this paper we apply the jet-disk symbiosis model developed for Sgr A* to M81* -- the nucleus of the nearby galaxy M81. The model accurately predicts radio flux and size of M81* for the observed bolometric luminosity of the nuclear source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Heino Falcke