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Context. Important information on the evolution of the jet can be obtained by comparing the physical state of the plasma at its propagation through the broad-line region (where the jet is most likely formed) into the intergalactic medium,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 D. Zargaryan , S. Gasparyan , V. Baghmanyan , N. Sahakyan

We report a relation between radio emission in the inner jet of the Seyfert galaxy 3C 120 and optical continuum emission in this galaxy. Combining the optical variability data with multi-epoch high-resolution very long baseline…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Leon-Tavares , A. P. Lobanov , V. H. Chavushyan , T. G. Arshakian , V. T. Doroshenko , S. G. Sergeev , Y. S. Efimov , S. V. Nazarov

We report VLBA polarimetric observations of the CSS sources 3C119, 3C318, and 3C343 at 5 and 8.4 GHz. The CSS source 3C119 has source rest-frame RM values up to ~10200 rad/m**2 in a region which coincides with a change in the direction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Mantovani , A. Rossetti , W. Junor , D. J. Saikia , C. J. Salter

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 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

We present new 6 and 20 cm Very Large Array (VLA) observations of polarized continuum emission of roughly 0.5 square degrees of the Galactic center (GC) region. The 6 cm observations detect diffuse linearly-polarized emission throughout the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 C. J. Law , M. A. Brentjens , G. Novak

One of the most well-known extragalactic sources in the sky, quasar 3C 454.3, shows a curved parsec-scale jet that has been exhaustively monitored with very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) over the recent years. In this work, we present…

(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 full-Stokes radio polarization observations of the quasar PKS B2126-158 (z=3.268) from 1 to 10 GHz using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The source has large fractional circular polarization, m_c \equiv |V|/I, detected at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 S. P. O'Sullivan , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , I. J. Feain , B. M. Gaensler , R. J. Sault

We present radio-to-optical data taken by the WEBT, supplemented by VLBA and RXTE observations, of 3C 279. Our goal is to use this extensive database to draw inferences regarding the physics of the relativistic jet. We assemble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. M. Larionov , S. G. Jorstad , A. P. Marscher , C. M. Raiteri , M. Villata

We explore the spectral and polarization properties of photospheric emissions from stratified jets in which multiple components, separated by a sharp velocity shear regions, are distributed in lateral direction. Propagation of thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Hirotaka Ito , Shigehiro Nagataki , Jin Matsumoto , Shiu-Hang Lee , Alexey Tolstov , Jirong Mao , Maria Dainotti , Akira Mizuta

The magnetic field is believed to play a critical role in the bulk acceleration and propagation of jets produced in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Polarization observations of AGN jets provide valuable information about their magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Jongho Park , Juan Carlos Algaba

We investigate the brightest regions of the kpc-scale jet in the powerful radio galaxy 3C 346, using new optical HST ACS/F606W polarimetry together with Chandra X-ray data and 14.9 GHz and 22.5 GHz VLA radio polarimetry. The jet shows a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Dulwich , D. M. Worrall , M. Birkinshaw , C. A. Padgett , E. S. Perlman

We study the linear polarization of the radio cores of eight blazars simultaneously at 22, 43, and 86 GHz with observations obtained by the Korean VLBI Network (KVN) in three epochs between late 2016 and early 2017 in the frame of the…

We present unprecedented high fidelity radio images of the M87 jet. We analyzed Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) broadband, full polarization, radio data from 4 to 18 GHz. The observations were taken with the most extended configuration (A…

We explore the variability and cross-frequency correlation of the flux density and polarization of the blazar OJ287, using imaging at 43 GHz with the Very Long Baseline Array, as well as optical and near-infrared polarimetry. The…

We present a broadband spectro-polarimetric analysis of 1,565 polarized radio sources from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey Data Release 2 (LoTSS-DR2) RM Grid catalogue. This study uses frequency-dependent Stokes Q and U spectra across the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Rudra Sinha , Abhik Ghosh

We report on the first results of the POLAMI program, a simultaneous 3.5 and 1.3mm full-Stokes-polarisation monitoring of a sample of 36 of the brightest active galactic nuclei in the northern sky with the IRAM 30m Telescope. Through a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-27 Ivan Agudo , Clemens Thum , Venkatessh Ramakrishnan , Sol N. Molina , Carolina Casadio , Jose L. Gomez

We present results of interferometric polarization observations of the recently discovered magnetar J1745-2900 in the vicinity of the Galactic center. The observations were made with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) on 21 February…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-13 E. V. Kravchenko , W. D. Cotton , F. Yusef-Zadeh , Y. Y. Kovalev

The technique of Faraday tomography is a key tool for the study of magnetised plasmas in the new era of broadband radio polarisation observations. In particular, observations at metre-wavelengths provide significantly better Faraday depth…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-03 Shane P. O'Sullivan , M. Brüggen , C. L. Van Eck , M. J. Hardcastle , M. Haverkorn , T. W. Shimwell , C. Tasse , V. Vacca , C. Horellou , G. Heald