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Gamma-ray emitting blazars have been the targets of many recent or ongoing monitoring programmes. The resulting multi-wavelength data archives are ideal for studying the quiescent and variable behaviour of the blazar PKS 2155-304. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Nikki Pekeur , Russ Taylor , Renée Kraan-Korteweg

Jets of compact radio sources are highly relativistic and Doppler boosted, making studies of their intrinsic properties difficult. Observed brightness temperatures can be used to study the intrinsic physical properties of the relativistic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-03 Sang-Sung Lee , Andrei P. Lobanov , Thomas P. Krichbaum , J. Anton Zensus

AO 0235+164 is a very compact, flat spectrum radio source identified as a BL Lac object at a redshift of z=0.94. It is one of the most violently variable extragalactic objects at both optical and radio wavelengths. The radio structure of…

Monitoring results are presented for the Stangellini 1 Jy GHz-peaked-spectrum source sample, illustrating that several members exhibit variability in total flux and/or linear polarization over timescales of order a decade. The variability…

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

VLBA and Global VLBI observations of M87 at 43 GHz, some new and some previously published, are used to study the structural evolution of the jet with a spatial resolution of under 100 Schwarzschild radii. The images, taken between 1999 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Chun Ly , R. Craig Walker , William Junor

We present the results of multifrequency observations of two asymmetric, Mpc-scale radio sources with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) and the Very Large Array (VLA). The radio luminosity of these two sources, J1211+743 and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 A. Pirya , S. Nandi , D. J. Saikia , M. Singh

Multi-wavelength VLA observations of two extended radio galaxies, 0235-197 and 1203+043 are presented. There is some evidence from earlier studies that these two sources exhibit low frequency (<1 GHz) variability. This work shows that both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Junor , F. Mantovani , R. Morganti , L. Padrielli

We present the first results of the VLBA Imaging and Polarimetry Survey (VIPS), a 5 GHz VLBI survey of 1,127 sources with flat radio spectra. Through automated data reduction and imaging routines, we have produced publicly available I, Q,…

We report results on the QSO 3C345 obtained from VLBA observations carried out on epochs 1995.84, 1996.41, and 1996.81, at 22, 15, 8.4 and 5 GHz. Total and polarized images VLBI images were obtained. We observed superluminal motions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Ros , J. A. Zensus , A. P. Lobanov

We have obtained 8.4 GHz VLBA observations of a 31-GHz complete sample of ~100 sources between 10 and 100 mJy. The main goals of these observations are: to determine the angular size, radio spectra and identification for a weak sample of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-19 W. A. Majid , E. B. Fomalont , D. S. Bagri

We present the results of 5 GHz VLBI observations of a compact steep spectrum source 3C 138. The data are consistent with the western end being the location of the central activity. The observed offset between different frequencies in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Z. -Q. Shen , D. R. Jiang , S. Kameno , Y. J. Chen

The radio-quiet quasar SDSS J1536+0441A shows two broad-line emission systems, recently interpreted as a binary black hole (BBH) system with a subparsec separation; as a double-peaked emitter; or as both types of systems. The NRAO VLBA was…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 J. M. Wrobel , A. Laor

We present SMA interferometric observations of the 12CO J=2-1, 13CO (J=2-1), and C18O (J=2-1) lines and 225 GHz continuum emission and SMT single-dish observations of C18O (J=2-1) toward L43, a protostellar object in transition from Class I…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Shin Koyamatsu , Shigehisa Takakuwa , Masahiko Hayashi , Satoshi Mayama , Nagayoshi Ohashi

HESS J1943+213 is a very high energy (VHE; 100 GeV) {\gamma}-ray source in the direction of the Galactic plane. 38 hours of deep VERITAS observations taken over two seasons detect the source with ~20 {\sigma} significance. Monitoring…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Karlen Shahinyan , the VERITAS Collaboration

PBC J2333.9-2343 is a peculiar active nucleus with two giant radio lobes and a weak blazar-like nucleus at their center. In the present work we show new optical, UV, and X-ray data taken from the San Pedro M\'artir telescope, the New…

We observed 17 nearby low luminosity FR I radio galaxies using the NRAO Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 1.67 GHz, as part of a multi-wavelength study of a complete sample of 21 sources selected by radio flux density from the Uppsala…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Chun Xu , Stefi A. Baum , Christopher P. O'Dea , J. M. Wrobel , J. J. Condon

The effect of a frequency dependent shift of the VLBI core position (known as the "core shift") was predicted more than three decades ago and has since been observed in a few sources, but often within a narrow frequency range. This effect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 K. V. Sokolovsky , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B. Pushkarev , A. P. Lobanov

I present 1.5- and 8.4-GHz observations with all configurations of the NRAO VLA of the wide-angle tail source 3C130. The source has a pair of relatively symmetrical, well-collimated inner jets, one of which terminates in a compact hot spot.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. J. Hardcastle

The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) has discovered a jet-like structure associated with a newly recognized QSO at redshift z=1.866. The system was 9.4 arcmin off-axis during an observation of 3C 207. Although significantly distorted…

We observed the compact central object CXOU J085201.4--461753 in the supernova remnant G266.2--1.2 (RX J0852.0--4622) with the Chandra ACIS detector in timing mode. The spectrum of this object can be described by a blackbody model with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Oleg Kargaltsev , George G. Pavlov , Divas Sanwal , Gordon P. Garmire