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Radial gradients of the brightness temperatures along the parsec-scale jets of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) can be used to infer the energy balance and to estimate the parameter range of physical conditions in these regions. In this paper,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-03 E. V. Kravchenko , I. N. Pashchenko , D. C. Homan , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , A. B. Pushkarev , E. Ros , T. Savolainen

We analysed the parsec-scale linear polarization properties of 436 active galactic nuclei (AGN) based on 15 GHz polarimetric Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations. We present polarization and total intensity images averaged over at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-07 A. B. Pushkarev , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , D. C. Homan , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , I. N. Pashchenko , T. Savolainen , D. Zobnina

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

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images remains a highly challenging task, primarily caused by the complexity of background noise and the imbalance of target scales. Traditional methods easily struggle to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Wenfeng Zhang , Jun Ni , Yue Meng , Xiaodong Pei , Wei Hu , Qibing Qin , Lei Huang

Aero-engine is the core component of aircraft and other spacecraft. The high-speed rotating blades provide power by sucking in air and fully combusting, and various defects will inevitably occur, threatening the operation safety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Hongbing Shang , Qixiu Yang , Chuang Sun , Xuefeng Chen , Ruqiang Yan

We analytically model stationary and axisymmetric active galactic nucleus jets, assuming energy conservation along each magnetic flux tube. Using very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations and published general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-11 Kouichi Hirotani , Hsien Shang , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Satoki Matsushita , Britton Jeter , Keiichi Asada

We investigate the magnetic field configuration of the M87 jet at arc-second scales by using archival polarimetric VLA data at 8, 15, 22 and 43 GHz. By stacking images over three years in order to enhance the sensitivity, we reveal, for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-31 J. C. Algaba , K. Asada , M. Nakamura

Relativistic jets of radio loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) produce highly directed, intense beams of radiation. A fraction of this beamed radiation scatters on the thermal plasma generally surrounding an AGN. The morphology of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Conrad Cramphorn , Sergey Sazonov , Rashid Sunyaev

In the current paradigm, it is believed that the compact VLBI radio core of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNi) represents the innermost upstream regions of relativistic outflows. These regions of AGN jets have generally been modeled…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-17 Juan Carlos Algaba , Masanori Nakamura , Keiichi Asada , Sang Sung Lee

We present result of processing of data of ground-space VLBI experiment titled W068. Particularly, one part of data of that observational session is successfully processed. These data were obtained on 2000 March 17 between 9:00 UT and 10:30…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrey Chuprikov , Igor Guirin

A monotonic, statistically significant gradient in the observed Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) across the jet of an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) reflects a corresponding gradient in the electron density and/or line-of-sight magnetic (B)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-30 Denise C. Gabuzda , Sebastian Knuettel , Annalisa Bonafede

One possible origin for polarization structures across jets of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) with a central "spine" of orthogonal magnetic field and a "sheath" of longitudinal magnetic field along one or both edges of the jet is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Denise C. Gabuzda , Andrea Reichstein , Eamonn L. O'Neill

We present a new technique for obtaining model fittings to VLBI images of astrophysical jets. The method minimizes a performance function proportional to the sum of the squared difference between the model and observed images. The model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Anderson Caproni , Hektor Monteiro , Zulema Abraham , Danilo. M. Teixeira , Rafael T. Toffoli

We combine Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data for $\sim100$ active galactic nuclei (AGN) available from the Very Large Baseline Array (VLBA) 2 cm imaging survey and optical spectroscopy to investigate the relationships in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. G. Arshakian , V. H. Chavushyan , E. Ros , M. Kadler , J. A. Zensus

We present results from the highest resolution polarization imaging survey of a complete sample of extragalactic radio sources carried out to date. Our sample consists of a statistically complete flat-spectrum subset of 32 AGNs from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthew L. Lister

Schlieren flow visualizations of transverse oscillations of jets submitted to an acoustic perturbation are analyzed in this paper. The aim is to estimate the shape and the position of the median line of the jet. Two methods for image…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-11-04 Patricio De La Cuadra , Christophe Vergez , Benoit Fabre

M87 is the best source in which to study a jet at high resolution in gravitational units because it has a very high mass black hole and is nearby. The angular size of the black hole is second only to Sgr A*, which does not have a strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-28 R. Craig Walker , Philip E. Hardee , Fred Davies , Chun Ly , William Junor , Florent Mertens , Andrei Lobanov

We introduce a Scanning Stereoscopic Particle Image velocimetry~(SSPIV) system which incorporates a thin rotating prism to obtain three-dimensional velocity fields in a large cubical measurement volume. The system makes use of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-22 Paul van der Plas , Yutian He , Varghese Mathai

VLBI observations of relativistic outflows (jets) in galactic nuclei, complemented with detailed studies made in other spectral domains, have become an effective tool for investigating the physics of nuclear regions in galaxies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-03 Andrei Lobanov

Detailed studies of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) require high-fidelity imaging at the highest possible resolution. This can be achieved using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) at radio frequencies, combining…