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We present new results from the VLBA 2 cm Survey, an imaging survey of active galactic nuclei (AGN) at sub-milliarcsecond resolution. We extend the structural variability monitoring program of more than 130 extragalactic parsec-scale radio…

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We consider the problem of multifrequency VLBA image synthesis and spectral-index mapping for active galactic nuclei related to the necessity of taking into account the frequency-dependent image shift. We describe our generalized…

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We are in the process of obtaining VLBA polarisation data for the 135 MOJAVE-I Active Galactic Nuclei at four wavelengths in the 18-22cm band. These observations will enable studies of the evolution of the intensity and magnetic-field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Colm Coughlan , Ronan Murphy , Kyle Mc Enery , Heather Patrick , Redmond Hallahan , Denise Gabuzda

The European VLBI Network (EVN) has been used at two epochs in 2003 and 2009 to obtain multi-frequency high-resolution images of the merger galaxy NGC6240 in order to study the radio properties of all compact high-brightness components in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Y. Hagiwara , W. A. Baan , H. -R. Kloeckner

The rapid variability of X-ray binaries produces a wide range of X-ray states that are linked to activity across the electromagnetic spectrum. It is particularly challenging to study a sample of sources large enough to include all types in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-30 John M. Dickey , S. D. Vrtilek , Michael McCollough , Bram Boroson , John A. Tomsick , Charles Bailyn , Jay M. Blanchard , Charlotte Johnson

We have used the VLBA at 5 GHz to observe all galaxies with nuclear radio flux densities above 3.5 mJy found in a VLA survey at 15 GHz of a sample of nearby LINER galaxies. All galaxies were detected revealing high brightness temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Heino Falcke , Neil M. Nagar , Andrew S. Wilson , James S. Ulvestad

We present full polarization Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations at 5 GHz and 15 GHz of 24 compact active galactic nuclei (AGN). These sources were observed as part of a pilot project to demonstrate the feasibility of conducting a…

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are characterized by strong temporal flux density variability across the electromagnetic spectrum, offering insights into the complex physical processes governing accretion and plasma outflows. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Lang Cui , Krishna Mohana A , Xin Wang , Ning Chang , Guiping Tan , Xiang Liu

Dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) and supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) at kpc and pc-scale separations, respectively, are expected during stages of galaxy merger and evolution. Their observational identification can address a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Tao An , P. Mohan , Sandor Frey

One of the defining characteristics of BL Lacertae objects is their strong variability across the electromagnetic spectrum. PKS 0537-441 is one such object and is one of the most luminous blazars from radio to gamma-ray wavelengths. It was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-11 Faith Hungwe , Roopesh Ojha , Matthias Kadler , Roy Booth , Jay Blanchard , Jim Lovell , Cornelia Mueller , Moritz Boeck , the TANAMI team

A long standing problem in the study of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) is that the observed VLBI core is in fact a blending of the actual AGN core (classically defined by the $\tau=1$ surface) and the upstream regions of the jet or optically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Juan-Carlos Algaba , Jeffrey Hodgson , Sin-Cheol Kang , Dae-Won Kim , Jae-Young Kim , Jee Won Lee , Sang-Sung Lee , Sascha Trippe

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 present continent-scale VLBI - obtained with the European VLBI Network (EVN) at a wavelength of 18cm - of six distant, luminous submm-selected galaxies (SMGs). Our images have a synthesized beam width of ~30 milliarcsec FWHM - three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. D. Biggs , J. D. Younger , R. J. Ivison

We present results from a large global VLBI(Very Long Baseline Interferometry) survey of compact radio sources at 86 GHz which started in October 2001. The main goal of the survey is to increase the total number of objects accessible for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-14 S. Lee , A. P. Lobanov , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus , M. Bremer , A. Greve , M. Grewing

MOJAVE is a VLBI program which monitors a statistically complete, radio-selected sample of 135 relativistically beamed, flat-spectrum active galactic nuclei for over more than a decade. In order to understand the high-energy behavior of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-12 C. S. Chang , E. Ros , M. Kadler , the F-Gamma Team

We present high angular resolution radio snap-shot observations of seven nearby low-luminosity active galaxies (LLAGN) from the NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA) survey. The observations were conducted with MERLIN and EVN/VLBI at 18cm and 6cm. At…

The radio properties of blazars detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have been observed contemporaneously by the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). In total, 232 sources were observed with…

We investigated the archival ground-based VLBI images of the extragalactic radio sources included in both the {\it Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)} and the {\it Planck} catalogues, and selected 49 bright and compact sources as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Tao An , Xiaocong Wu , Sandor Frey

Various sign-posts of recent star-formation activity, such as water and methanol maser emission or magnetically active low-mass young stars, can be detected with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio arrays. The extremely accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Laurent Loinard , Mark J. Reid

Broad-band (gamma to radio) variations of the flux density were observed in the first half of 1992 in the luminous high redshift (z = 2.172) quasar S5 0836+710. VLBI monitoring observations during 1993 -- 1996 performed at 86 GHz, 22 GHz,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Otterbein , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Kraus , A. P. Lobanov , A. Witzel , S. J. Wagner , J. A. Zensus