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High-resolution VLBI observations revealed a quasi-stationary component (QSC) in the relativistic jets of many blazars, which represents a standing recollimation shock. The VLBA monitoring of the BL Lacertae jet at 15~GHz shows the QSC at a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-11 T. G. Arshakian , L. A. Hambardzumyan , A. B. Pushkarev , D. C. Homan

Relativistic jets originating at the center of AGN are embedded in extreme environments with strong magnetic fields and high particle densities, which makes them a fundamental tool for studying the physics of magnetized plasmas. We aim to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 V. Bartolini , D. Dallacasa , J. L. Gómez , M. Giroletti , R. Lico , J. D. Livingston

The active galactic nucleus (AGN) within M87, a giant elliptical galaxy, is responsible for one of the closest kiloparsec-scale relativistic jet to Earth. We unearthed unpublished M87 polarization maps taken with the Faint Object Camera…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-11 F. Marin , T. Barnouin , K. Wu , E. Lopez-Rodriguez

Reconstruction of jets in high-energy heavy-ion collisions is challenging due to the large and fluctuating background coming from the underlying event. We report results on full jet reconstruction, obtained from data collected in 2011 by…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Salvatore Aiola

Building on the jet morphology and periodic wobble analysis of 3I/ATLAS in Scarmato & Loeb (2026), we link observed jet position angles (PAs) and the non-gravitational acceleration components (A1,A2,A3) in the 3D RTN (radial, transverse,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Toni Scarmato , Abraham Loeb

The differential charged jet cross sections, jet fragmentation distributions, and jet shapes are measured in minimum bias proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV using the ALICE detector at the LHC. Jets are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-10-14 ALICE Collaboration

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

We present a framework for detecting transient gamma-ray phenomena in a controlled environment by combining end-to-end simulations of the Fermi-LAT sky with self-supervised spatio-temporal deep learning. We generate a ten-year synthetic…

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ros

We have combined Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data from several programs in order to resolve differences in reported parsec-scale jet speeds for the TeV gamma-ray source Mkn501. Data from the VLBA 2cm survey, and 8 and 15 GHz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. G. Edwards , B. G. Piner

In recent studies, several AGN have exhibited gradients of the Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) transverse to their parsec-scale jet direction. Faraday rotation likely occurs as a result of a magnetized sheath wrapped around the jet. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-26 M. M. Lisakov , E. V. Kravchenko , A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev , T. K. Savolainen , M. L. Lister

Supermassive black holes launch highly relativistic jets with velocities reaching Lorentz factors as high as $\Gamma>50$. How the jets accelerate to such high velocities and where along the jet do they reach terminal velocity are open…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 I. Liodakis , T. Hovatta , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , M. A. Gurwell , A. Lähteenmäki , M. Tornikoski

As an image sensing instrument, light field images can supply extra angular information compared with monocular images and have facilitated a wide range of measurement applications. Light field image capturing devices usually suffer from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Zexi Hu , Henry Wing Fung Yeung , Xiaoming Chen , Yuk Ying Chung , Haisheng Li

Extragalactic jets originating from the central supermassive black holes of active galaxies are powerful, highly relativistic plasma outflows, emitting light from the radio up to the gamma-ray regime. The details of their formation,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-26 Cornelia Müller

Intensive VLBI monitoring programs of jets in AGN are showing the existence of intricate emission patterns, such as upstream motions or slow moving and quasi-stationary componentes trailing superluminal features. Relativistic hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Gomez , J. M. Marti , I. Agudo , A. P. Marscher , S. G. Jorstad , M. A. Aloy

We used 15 GHz multi-epoch Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) polarization sensitive observations of 484 sources within a time interval 1996--2016 from the MOJAVE program, and also from the NRAO data archive. We have analyzed the linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-11 A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , T. Savolainen , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , M. A. Hodge

Context: We present the soft X-ray properties obtained in the ROSAT All-Sky survey and from pointed PSPC observations for the AGN in the complete flux-density limited Caltech-Jodrell Bank flat spectrum sample (hereafter CJF). CJF is a VLBI…

The spectral index images of the jet in the nearby radio galaxy M87 have previously been shown with Very Long Baseline Interferometric arrays at 2-43 GHz. They exhibit flattening of the spectra at a location of inner (central) spine and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 I. N. Pashchenko , E. V. Kravchenko , E. E. Nokhrina , A. S. Nikonov

A complete sample of 27 radio galaxies was selected from the B2 and 3CR catalogs, in order to study their properties on the milliarcsecond scale. In the Appendix of this paper we present new radio images for 12 of them. Thanks to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Giovannini , W. D. Cotton , L. Feretti , L. Lara , T. Venturi

At a distance of 249 Mpc ($z$=0.056), Cygnus A is the only powerful FR II radio galaxy for which a detailed sub-parsec scale imaging of the base of both jet and counter-jet can be obtained. Observing with VLBI at millimeter wavelengths is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-07 Bia Boccardi , Thomas Krichbaum , Uwe Bach , Eduardo Ros , J. Anton Zensus