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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

The compact radio source Sgr\,A*, associated with the super massive black hole at the center of the Galaxy, has been studied with VLBA observations at 3 frequencies (22, 43, 86\,GHz) performed on 10 consecutive days in May 2007. The total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 R. -S. Lu , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Eckart , S. König , D. ~Kunneriath , G. Witzel , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus

FRB 121102 is the first fast radio burst source to be spatially associated with a persistent radio source (QRS121102), the nature of which remains unknown. We present a detailed observational study of QRS121102 and its host galaxy. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Ge Chen , Vikram Ravi , Gregg W. Hallinan

The nuclear region of the Luminous Infra-red Galaxy Arp 299-A hosts a recent ($\simeq 10$ Myr), intense burst of massive star formation which is expected to lead to numerous core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). Previous VLBI observations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Bondi , M. A. Perez-Torres , R. Herrero-Illana , A. Alberdi

We present VLBI observations, carried out with the European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (EVN), of SDSSJ143244.91+301435.3, a radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (RLNLS1) characterized by a steep radio spectrum. The source,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 A. Caccianiga , D. Dallacasa , S. Anton , L. Ballo , M. Berton , K. -H. Mack , A. Paulino-Afonso

We present results from 4.8 GHz VLA and Global-VLBI observations of the northern half of the moderate FIR luminosity (median L_IR = 10^11.01 L_Sol) COLA sample of star-forming galaxies. VLBI sources are detected in a high fraction (20/90)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. Parra , J. E. Conway , S. Aalto , P. N. Appleton , R. P. Norris , Y. M. Pihlstroem , L. J. Kewley

We have imaged the nearby galaxy merger Arp 299 at arcsecond and milliarcsecond resolution, using both the Very Large Array and the Very Long Baseline Array. The large-scale radio emission from the merger contains 5 bright, compact radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. G. Neff , J. S. Ulvestad , S. H. Teng

We report 18cm VLBI continuum imaging observations at 5 mas resolution for UGC 5101, NGC 7469, and Mrk 231, all part of a sample of Luminous Infrared Galaxies which have been shown to have strong VLBI radio cores. The radio morphology of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Carol J. Lonsdale , Colin J. Lonsdale , Harding E. Smith , Philip J. Diamond

Global VLBI observations at 5 GHz have been performed to study the source morphology in 10 compact steep-spectrum (CSS) sources selected from the Peacock & Wall catalogue with the aim of finding asymmetric structures produced by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Dallacasa , M. Orienti , C. Fanti , R. Fanti , C. Stanghellini

Many low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) contain a compact radio core which can be observed with high angular resolution using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). Combining arcsec-scale structural information with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-06 Máté Krezinger , Sándor Frey , Zsolt Paragi , Roger Deane

We have discovered a number of relatively strong radio sources in the field-of-view of SDSS galaxy clusters which present no optical counterparts down to the magnitude limits of the SDSS. The optically faint radio sources appear as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mercedes E. Filho , Jarle Brinchmann , Catarina Lobo , Sonia Antón

Aim: We observed the center of the supernova remnant Vela Jr in radio continuum in order to search for a counterpart to the compact central X-ray source CXOU J085201.4-461753, possibly a neutron star candidate which could be the remnant of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. M. Reynoso , G. Dubner , E. Giacani , S. Johnston , A. J. Green

SN1993J in M81 is the best studied young radio-luminous supernova in the Northern Hemisphere. We recently reported results from the analysis of a complete set of VLBI observations of this supernova at 1.7, 2.3, 5.0, and 8.4 GHz, covering a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 I. Marti-Vidal , J. M. Marcaide

We have performed a multi-dimensional correlation analysis on the observed properties of a statistically complete core-selected sample of compact radio-loud active galactic nuclei, based on data from the VLBI Space Observing Programme…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. L. Lister , S. J. Tingay , R. A. Preston

Many of the compact extragalactic radio sources that are used as fiducial points to define the celestial reference frame are known to have proper motions detectable with long-term geodetic/astrometric Very Long Baseline Interferometry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-16 A. Moór , S. Frey , S. B. Lambert , O. Titov , J. Bakos

A small sample of 7 southern Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) radio sources has been selected as part of the study of a larger flux-limited complete sample of radio sources. High resolution images, using the VLBI network in the southern…

Radio surveys of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) allow us to find supercritically accreting compact objects (SS 433/W50 like systems) or stripped nuclear black holes in nearby galaxies. We identified 21 such objects by crossmatching a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Yijia Zhang , Hua Feng , Ailing Wang , Roberto Soria

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

The chandra monitoring observations of The Antennae (NGC 4038/39) have led to the discovery of a variable, luminous, supersoft source (SSS). This source is only detected at energies below 2 keV and, in 2002 May, reached count rates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Fabbiano , A. R. King , A. Zezas , T. J. Ponman , A. Rots , Francois Schweizer

We present analyses of deep radio observations of M83 taken with the Very Large Array spanning fifteen years, including never before published observations from 1990 and 1998. We report on the evolution of 55 individual point sources, which…