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We present for the first time Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry images of the radio galaxy Cygnus A at the frequency of $86$ $\rm GHz$. Thanks to the high spatial resolution of only ${\sim}200$ Schwarzschild radii ($R_{\bf S}$), such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-30 B. Boccardi , T. P. Krichbaum , U. Bach , M. Bremer , J. A. Zensus

To investigate the connection between radio activity and AGN outflows, we present a study of ionized gas kinematics based on [O III] $\lambda$5007 emission line along the large-scale radio jet for six radio AGNs. These AGNs are selected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Huynh Anh N. Le , Jong-Hak Woo , Donghoon Son , Marios Karouzos , Aeree Chung , Taehyun Jung , Evangelia Tremou

There is theoretical and observational evidence that the jet core position changes with frequency. However, the core position for a given frequency may vary with time in the case of flares or for a precessing jet. In this work, we want to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 R. Sharma , M. Massi , G. Torricelli-Ciamponi

Outflows accelerated by AGN are commonly observed in the form of coherent, mildly collimated high-velocity gas directed along the AGN ionisation cones and kinetically powerful (>$10^{44-45}$ erg/s) jets. Recent works found that outflows can…

We monitored the M87 jet with the ACIS-S detector on Chandra with 5 observations between 2002 Jan and 2002 Jul. Our goal was to determine the presence and degree of variability in morphology, intensity, and spectral parameters. We find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. E. Harris

Imaging X-ray spectroscopy of nearby AGNs, mostly with Chandra, has shown that extended soft (<2.5 keV) emission-line dominated X-ray biconical structures, of kiloparsec scale, are widespread in highly absorbed Compton Thick (CT) AGNs. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 G. Fabbiano , M. Elvis

AGN jets carry more than sufficient energy to stave off catastrophic cooling of the intracluster medium (ICM) in the cores of cool-core clusters. However, in order to prevent catastrophic cooling, the ICM must be heated in a near-isotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Arif Babul , Prateek Sharma , Christopher S. Reynolds

The high-redshift quasar PMN J0909+0354 ($z=3.288$) is known to have a pc-scale compact jet structure, based on global 5-GHz very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations performed in 1992. Its kpc-scale structure was studied with…

For understanding the diversity of jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN) and especially the puzzling wide range in their radio-loudness, it is important to understand what role the magnetic fields play in setting the power of relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Wara Chamani , Tuomas Savolainen , Kazuhiro Hada , Ming H. Xu

Our previous studies revealed a good kinematic model for the jet of Cygnus A, but the counter-jet speed is still not well constrained. The central engine and part of the counter-jet of Cyg A are likely to be obscured by free-free absorbing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-10 U. Bach , T. P. Krichbaum , E. Middelberg , W. Alef , J. A. Zensus

We present a detailed VLBI study of the spectral properties of the inner core region of the radio galaxy Cygnus A at 5 GHz, 15 GHz, 22 GHz, 43 GHz and 86 GHz. Our observations include an epoch using phase-referencing at 15 GHz and 22 GHz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Bach , T. P. Krichbaum , E. Middelberg , M. Kadler , W. Alef , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus

We present new more sensitive high-resolution radio observations of a compact broad absorption line (BAL) quasar, 1045+352, made with the EVN+MERLIN at 5 GHz. They allowed us to trace the connection between the arcsecond structure and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Magdalena Kunert-Bajraszewska , Agnieszka Janiuk , Marcin P. Gawronski , Aneta Siemiginowska

Observations of accreting black holes often provoke suggestions that their jets precess. The precession is usually supposed to result from a combination of the Lense-Thirring effect and accretion disc viscosity. We show that this is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Chris Nixon , Andrew King

We propose that the knots of the large-scale jets in powerful radio sources represent moving and separate portions of the jet matter, with the excess kinetic power. This can explain many morphological properties of quasar jets - like high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Stawarz , M. Sikora , M. Ostrowski , M. C. Begelman

The jet activity of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), and its interaction with the interstellar medium (ISM), may play a pivotal role in the processes which regulate the growth and star formation of its host galaxy. Observational evidence which…

Observational studies of inner-most regions of the edge-on jets in nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN) are crucial to understand their kinematics and morphology. For the inner jet of the nearby low luminosity AGN in M 84, we present new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 Xuezheng Wang , Wu Jiang , Zhiqiang Shen , Lei Huang , Kazuhiro Hada , Yuzhu Cui , Ru-Sen Lu

We are investigating the kinematics of jets in active galactic nuclei on parsec scales by studying a representative population of sources. This study is being carried out using the Very Long Baseline Array at 15 GHz, with more than 800…

We propose that the X-ray emission detected by Chandra from the 100-kiloparsec-scale jet of PKS 0637-752 is produced through inverse Compton scattering of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). We analyze the physical state of the jet and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Tavecchio , L. Maraschi R. M. Sambruna , C. M. Urry

The recently discovered protostellar jet known as HH212 is beautifully symmetric, with a series of paired shock knots and bow shocks on either side of the exciting source region, IRAS 05413-0104 (Zinnecker et al. 1998). We present VLA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jennifer Wiseman , Alwyn Wootten , Hans Zinnecker , Mark McCaughrean

The extreme, intra-hour and > 10% rms flux density scintillation observed in AGNs such as PKS 0405-385, J1819+3845 and PKS 1257-326 at cm wavelengths has been attributed to scattering in highly turbulent, nearby regions in the interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-09-22 J. Y. Koay , H. E. Bignall , J. -P. Macquart , D. L. Jauncey , B. J. Rickett , J. E. J. Lovell