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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

We used 15 GHz VLBA observations of 366 sources having at least 5 epochs within a time interval 1995-2013 from the MOJAVE program and/or its predecessor, the 2 cm VLBA Survey. For each source we produced a corresponding stacked image…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-03 Alexander B. Pushkarev , Matthew L. Lister , Yuri Y. Kovalev , Tuomas Savolainen

In the time domain, the radio sky in particular along the Galactic plane direction may vary significantly because of various energetic activities associated with stars, stellar and supermassive black holes. Using multi-epoch Very Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 Jun Yang , Yongjun Chen , Leonid I. Gurvits , Zsolt Paragi , Aiyuan Yang , Xiaolong Yang , Zhiqiang Shen

We analyse VLBI and optical images of AGNs and their host galaxies and look for statistical correlations between the shape and orientation of the galaxy and the direction of the jet. We utilise the Astrogeo catalogue, which has over 9000…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-12 David Fernández Gil , Jeffrey A. Hodgson , Benjamin L'Huillier

We present multi-frequency VLBI observations of the Compact Steep-spectrum Quasar 3C147 (0538+498) made with the VLBA at the four frequencies in the available 5 GHz band and at 8.4 GHz (still under analysis), from which we derived…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Rossetti , F. Mantovani , D. Dallacasa

We discuss the opacity in the core regions of active galactic nuclei observed with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), and describe a new method for deriving the frequency-dependent shifts of the VLBI core from the frequency-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 N. A. Kudryavtseva , D. C. Gabuzda , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller

We present the completed results of a high resolution radio imaging survey of all (around 200) low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) in the Palomar spectroscopic Sample of all (around 470) nearby bright northern galaxies. The high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. M. Nagar , H. Falcke , A. S. Wilson

We present the analysis of VLA and VLBA observations of the radio source 3C 338, associated with the cD galaxy NGC 6166, the central dominant galaxy of the cluster Abell 2199. The VLBA observations were done at 8.4 and 15.4 GHz, while the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 G. Gentile , C. Rodriguez , G. B. Taylor , G. Giovannini , S. W. Allen , W. M. Lane , N. E. Kassim

We present a comprehensive multifrequency VLBI analysis of the FRII, high-excitation radio galaxy 3C 452, aiming to resolve and analyze for the first time its twin-jet structure on sub-parsec scales. Our data set comprises High Sensitivity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 Eftychia Madika , Bia Boccardi , Luca Ricci , Paola Grandi , Eleonora Torresi , Gabriele Giovannini , Matthias Kadler , J. Anton Zensus

Multi-frequency, multi-epoch ATCA observations of a sample of AGN resulted in the identification of 9 new candidate Giga-hertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources. Here we present Long Baseline Array observations at 4.8 GHz of the four candidates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-06 P. G. Edwards , S. J. Tingay

Radio core dominance measurements, an indicator of jet orientation, sometimes rely on core flux density measurements from large-area surveys like Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty cm (FIRST) that have an angular resolution of only…

We report multi-frequency VLBI studies of the sub-parsec scale structure of the two-sided jet in the nearby radio galaxy NGC 4261. Our analyses include new observations using the Source Frequency Phase Referencing technique with the Very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-01 Xi Yan , Ru-Sen Lu , Wu Jiang , Thomas P. Krichbaum , Zhi-Qiang Shen

I review constraints on the physical properties of AGN jets revealed through Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) studies of the structure and time-evolution of parsec-scale jets, including recent results from the MOJAVE program. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Daniel C. Homan

At present, there is no doubt that relativistic jets observed in active galactic nuclei pass from highly magnetized to weakly magnetized stage, which is observed as a break in the dependence on their width $d_{\rm jet}(z)$ on the distance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-28 V. S. Beskin , T. I. Khalilov , E. E. Nokhrina , I. N. Pashchenko , E. V. Kravchenko

We present the results from high-resolution observations carried out with the eMERLIN UK-array and the European VLBI network (EVN) for a sample of 15 FR0s, i.e. compact core-dominated radio sources associated with nearby early-type galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-22 Ranieri D. Baldi , Gabriele Giovannini , Alessandro Capetti

We present deep Very Large Array imaging of 3C~273 in order to determine the diffuse, large scale radio structure of this famous radio-loud quasar. Diffuse extended structure (radio lobes) is detected for the first time in these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Brian Punsly , Preeti Kharb

We present results of a VLBA multi-frequency study of the pc-scale twin jet in NGC1052. We observed this object at epoch 1998.99 with the VLBA at 5, 8.4, 22 and 43 GHz both in total and linearly polarized intensity. The spectral analysis…

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

We present images from a space-VLBI survey using the facilities of the VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP), drawing our sample from the well-studied Pearson-Readhead survey of extragalactic radio sources. Our survey has taken advantage…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. L. Lister , S. J. Tingay , D. W. Murphy , B. G. Piner , D. L. Jones , R. A. Preston

We report initial results from the detection of optical emission in the arcsecond-scale radio jets of two quasars utilizing images from the {\it Hubble Space Telescope} archive. The optical emission has a very knotty appearance and is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. C. Cheung , J. F. C. Wardle , Tingdong Chen , S. P. Hariton

We report the results of a 15 GHz (2 cm) multi-epoch VLBA program, begun in 1994 to study the outflow in radio jets ejected from quasars and active galaxies. The observed flow of 208 distinct features measured in 110 quasars, active…