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Millimeter-band polarimetry offers a powerful probe of AGN jets, accessing regions less affected by opacity and Faraday rotation than at longer radio wavelengths. As part of the POLAMI program, we have conducted 14 years of 1 mm and 3 mm…

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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…

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

Blazars are radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) whose jets have a very small angle to our line of sight. Observationally, the radio emission are mostly compact or a compact-core with a 1-sided jet. With 2.5$^{\prime\prime}$ resolution…

We present observations of the blazar 3C 279 at 22 GHz using the space VLBI mission RadioAstron on 2018 January 15. Images in both total intensity and fractional polarization are reconstructed using RML method implemented in the eht-imaging…

We present full-polarization observations at $\lambda = 0.87$ mm (345 GHz) conducted with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) toward Messier 87 (M87) and seven other radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN). We determine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-23 Ciriaco Goddi , Douglas F. Carlos

We observed the gravitationally lensed blazar JVAS B0218+357 with the KVN and VERA Array (KaVA) at 22, 43, and 86 GHz. The source has recently been identified as an active gamma-ray source up to GeV/TeV energy bands, rendering a unique…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-03 Kazuhiro Hada , Kotaro Niinuma , Julian Sitarek , Cristiana Spingola , Ayumi Hirano

We have used the European VLBI Network (EVN) to observe a sample of Lyman Break Analogs (LBAs), nearby (z < 0.3) galaxies with properties similar to the more distant Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs). The study of LBGs may help define the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Alexandroff , R. A. Overzier , Z. Paragi , A. Basu-Zych , T. Heckman , G. Kauffmann , S. Bourke , A. Lobanov , A. Ptak , D. Schiminovich

Multi-frequency (4.6, 5, 5.5, 8, 8.8, 13, 15, 22 & 43 GHz) polarization observations of 6 "blazars" were obtained on the American Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) over a 24-hr period on 2 July 2006. Observing at several frequencies,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shane P. O'Sullivan , Denise C. Gabuzda

In recent years, the jet formation region in active galaxies has been imaged through mm-VLBI in few ideal targets, first and foremost M87. An important leap forward for understanding jet launching could be made by identifying a larger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-12 B. Boccardi , L. Ricci , E. Madika , V. Bartolini , U. Bach , P. Grandi , E. Torresi , T. P. Krichbaum , J. A. Zensus

The structure of the broad emission line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) remains unclear. We test in this paper a flattened configuration model for BLR. The virial theorem, by taking into account the disc shape of BLR, allows…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-07 M. Yu. Piotrovich , Yu. N. Gnedin , N. A. Silant'ev , T. M. Natsvlishvili , S. D. Buliga

We present the results from the first large (>100 source) 3.5 mm polarimetric survey of radio loud active galactic nuclei (AGN). The I, Q, U, and V Stokes parameter observations were performed with the XPOL polarimeter at the IRAM 30m…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 I. Agudo , C. Thum , H. Wiesemeyer , T. P. Krichbaum

The Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA) is the highest angular resolution imaging interferometer currently available as a common user facility. It is capable of angular resolutions on the order of 40 microarcseconds. Currently 14 stations in the…

We present an analysis of the core linear polarization properties of 387 parsec-scale active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets. Using 15 GHz VLBA data, we revisit the conclusions of the first paper in this series with multi-epoch measurements and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-16 M. A. Hodge , M. L. Lister , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B. Pushkarev , T. Savolainen

We perform monthly total and polarized intensity imaging of a sample of $\gamma$-ray blazars (33 sources) with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 43 GHz with the high resolution of 0.1 milliarcseconds. From Summer 2008 to October 2009…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-14 S. Jorstad , A. Marscher , F. D'Arcangelo , B. Harrison

We conducted the first multi-frequency polarimetric imaging of four broad absorption line (BAL) quasars using Very Long Baseline Array at milli-arcsecond resolutions to investigate the inclination of the non-thermal jet and test the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Takayuki J. Hayashi , Akihiro Doi , Hiroshi Nagai

With high-sensitivity kiloparsec-scale radio polarimetry, we can examine the jet-medium interactions and get a better understanding of the blazar divide in radio-loud (RL) AGN. We are analyzing the radio polarimetric observations with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-25 Janhavi Baghel , P. Kharb , Silpa S. , Luis C. Ho , C. M. Harrison

We present and discuss new result from mm-VLBI observations of M87 and SgrA*, using the Global mm-VLBI array (GMVA). New 3mm-VLBI images of the inner jet of M87 are presented, showing details with a spatial resolution down to 15…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. P. Krichbaum , D. A. Graham , M. Bremer , W. Alef , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus , A. Eckart

We report on an ongoing effort to image active galactic nuclei simultaneously observed at 2.3 and 8.6 GHz in the framework of a long-term VLBI project RDV (Research and Development - VLBA) started in 1994 aiming to observe compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-31 A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev