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We show that the principal differences in appearance of the main and counter-jets within 30 arcsec of the nucleus of the low-luminosity radio galaxy 3C 31 can result entirely from the effects of relativistic aberration in two symmetrical,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. A. Laing , A. H. Bridle

A number of groups have recently been active in searching for gradients in the ob- served Faraday rotation measure (RM) across jets of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) on various scales and estimating their reliability. Such RM structures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-27 Denise C. Gabuzda , Naomi Roche , Amy Kirwan , Sebastian Knuettel , Matt Nagle , Caolan Houston

We report the discovery of Faraday rotation toward radio source 3C 84, the active galactic nucleus in NGC1275 at the core of the Perseus Cluster. The rotation measure (RM), determined from polarization observations at wavelengths of 1.3 and…

We present radio emission, polarization, and Faraday rotation maps of the radio jet of the galaxy 3C303. From this data we derive the magnetoplasma and electrodynamic parameters of this 50 kpc long jet. For a {$\sim 2$} kpc segment of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-20 Philipp P. Kronberg , Richard V. E. Lovelace , Giovanni Lapenta , Stirling A. Colgate

We are using "broadband" (4.6 to 43 GHz) multi-frequency VLBA polarization observations of compact AGN to investigate the 3-D structure of their jet magnetic (B) fields. Observing at several frequencies, separated by short and long…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-01 Shane P. O'Sullivan , Denise C. Gabuzda

In this paper we use radio polarimetric observations of the jet of the nearby bright quasar 3C\,345 to estimate the fluid velocity on kiloparsec scales. The jet is highly polarized, and surprisingly, the electric vector position angles in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 David H. Roberts , John F. C. Wardle

We present Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) properties of seven active galactic nuclei (AGN), observed with the NRAO VLA at three epochs in 2012-2014. Data was taken at 1.4, 2.2, 5.0, 8.2, 15.4, 22.4, 33.5 and 43.1 GHz quasi simultaneously in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 E. V. Kravchenko , W. D. Cotton , Y. Y. Kovalev

Rotation measure observations of 9 quasars, 4 BL Lacertae objects, and 3 radio galaxies are presented. The rest frame rotation measures in the cores of the quasars and the jets of the radio galaxy M87 are several thousand radians per meter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. T. Zavala , G. B. Taylor

For the first time it has become possible to compare global 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) jet formation simulations directly to very-long baseline interferometric multi-frequency polarization observations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Avery E. Broderick , Jonathan C. McKinney

The quasar 3C~286 is one of two compact steep spectrum sources detected by the {\it Fermi}/LAT. Here, we investigate the radio properties of the parsec(pc)-scale jet and its (possible) association with the $\gamma$-ray emission in 3C~286.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-10 T. An , B. -Q. Lao , W. Zhao , P. Mohan , X. -P. Cheng , Y. -Z. Cui , Z. -L. Zhang

Variations of the optical continuum emission in the radio galaxy 3C 390.3 are compared to the properties of radio emission from the compact, sub-parsec-scale jet in this object. We showed that very long-term variations of optical continuum…

We report results from a deep polarization imaging of the nearby radio galaxy 3C$\,$84 (NGC$\,$1275). The source was observed with the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA) at 86$\,$GHz at an ultra-high angular resolution of $50\mu$as…

We present multi-frequency polarimetric observations of 3C 84 obtained with the Korean VLBI Network at 43-141 GHz, the Very Long Baseline Array at 43 GHz, and the High Sensitivity Array at 8 GHz from 2015 to 2024. We find that the Faraday…

We have conducted a survey of Faraday rotation in a sample of 191 compact radio-loud AGNs as part of the MOJAVE (Monitoring of Jets in Active galactic nuclei with VLBA Experiments) project. The observations were carried out with the VLBA at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-03 T. Hovatta , M. L. Lister , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , D. C. Homan , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B. Pushkarev , T. Savolainen

We present Very Long Baseline Array polarimetric observations of the innermost jet of 3C$\sim$84 (NGC$\sim$1275) at 43$\sim$GHz. A significant polarized emission is detected at the hotspot of the innermost re-started jet, which is located…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-08 H. Nagai , Y. Fujita , M. Nakamura , M. Orienti , M. Kino , K. Asada , G. Giovannini

We present images of the jets in the nearby radio galaxy NGC 315 made with the VLA at five frequencies between 1.365 and 5 GHz with resolutions between 1.5 and 45 arcsec FWHM. Within 15 arcsec of the nucleus, the spectral index of the jets…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. A. Laing , J. R. Canvin , W. D. Cotton , A. H. Bridle

Parsec-scale multi-wavelength VLBA polarization observations can be used to study the magnetic-field structures of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) based on Faraday Rotation (FR) gradients. A number of transverse FR gradients have been found,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-15 Mehreen Mahmud , Denise C. Gabuzda

In this paper we present multifrequency VLA observations of the giant radio galaxy 3C 449, obtained with high sensitivity and resolution in total intensity and polarized flux. These images show the source morphology in great detail, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 L. Feretti , R. Perley , G. Giovannini , H. Andernach

Polarization has proved an invaluable tool for probing magnetic fields in relativistic jets. Maps of the intrinsic polarization vectors have provided the best evidence to date for uniform, toroidally dominated magnetic fields within jets.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Avery E Broderick , Abraham Loeb

We present an analysis of the magnetic-field fluctuations in the magnetoionic medium in front of the radio galaxy 3C 31 derived from rotation-measure (RM) fits to high-resolution polarization images. We first show that the Faraday rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-05 R. A. Laing , A. H. Bridle