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The change in the slope of the radio source counts suggests the emergence of a new population of radio galaxies at mJy and sub-mJy levels. Our understanding of such faint radio sources has advanced over the last decade through increasingly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Gregorini , I. Prandoni

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

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…

Jets, collimated outflows of particles and fields, are observed in a wide variety of astrophysical systems, including Active Galactic Nuclei of various types, microquasars, gamma-ray bursts, and young stellar objects. Despite intensive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-29 Gustavo E. Romero

Outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are seen in numerous compact sources; however, it has remained unclear how to distinguish between the driving mechanisms, such as winds and jets. Therefore, our study aims to offer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-02 Moun Meenakshi , Dipanjan Mukherjee , Gianluigi Bodo , Paola Rossi , Chris M. Harrison

Jets are ubiquitous in the star-forming process since accretion is intimately associated with outflow. Weak free-free continuum emission in the centimeter domain is associated with these jets. Observations in the cm range are most useful to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-22 Guillem Anglada , Luis F. Rodriguez , Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez

Relativistic jets are the most energetic manifestation of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) phenomenon. AGN jets are observed from the radio through gamma-rays and carry copious amounts of matter and energy from the sub-parsec central…

Radio galaxies are known to go through cycles of activity, where phases of apparent quiescence can be followed by repeated activity of the central supermassive black hole. A better understanding of this cycle is crucial for ascertaining the…

Powerful relativistic jets in radio galaxies are capable of driving strong outflows but also inducing star-formation by pressure-triggering collapse of dense clouds. We review theoretical work on negative and positive active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 A. Y. Wagner , G. V. Bicknell , M. Umemura , R. S. Sutherland , J. Silk

A new paradigm for active galactic jet kinematics has emerged through detailed investigations of BL Lac objects using very long baseline radio interferometry. In this new scheme, most, if not all, jet components appear to remain stationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-20 Marios Karouzos , Silke Britzen , Arno Witzel , Anton J. Zensus , Andreas Eckart

We have investigated how varying several parameters affects the results of a collision between an extragalactic jet and a dense, intergalactic cloud, through a series of hydrodynamic simulations. We have produced synthetic radio images for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Higgins , Tim O'Brien , James Dunlop

Jets are found in a variety of astrophysical sources, from young stellar objects to active galactic nuclei. In all the cases the jet propagates with a supersonic velocity through the external medium, which can be inhomogeneous, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Anabella T. Araudo , Valenti Bosch-Ramon , Gustavo E. Romero

Astrophysical jets exist in both XRBs and AGN, and seem to share common features, particularly in the radio. While AGN jets are known to emit X-rays, the situation for XRB jets is not so clear. Radio jets have been resolved in several XRBs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Markoff , M. Nowak , S. Corbel , R. Fender , H. Falcke

Jet precession is sometimes invoked to explain asymmetries in radio galaxy (RG) jets and "X/S/Z-shape" radio galaxies, caused by the presence of a binary black hole companion to the source active galactic nucleus (AGN) or by accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-08 Chris Nolting , Jay Ball , Tri M. Nguyen

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) powered jets can accelerate cosmic ray electrons, leading to the observed radio synchrotron emission. To simulate this emission, jet dynamics in galaxy clusters must be coupled to electron spectral modelling.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Léna Jlassi , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer , Maria Werhahn , Joseph Whittingham , Philipp Girichidis

Current observations have shown that astrophysical jets reveal strong signs of radial structure. They suggest that the inner region of the jet, the jet spine, consists of a low-density, fast-moving gas, while the outer region of the jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Walg , A. Achterberg , S. Markoff , R. Keppens , Z. Meliani

Hydrodynamical simulations of jets interacting with clouds moving in the ambient medium of the host galaxy are presented. Clouds with sizes of the order of the jet diameter and smaller, crossing the path of the jet with different speeds are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Jeyakumar

Recent observations of GRS 1915+105 and GRO J1655+40 reveal superluminal motions in Galactic sources. This letter examines the physical conditions within these Galactic sources, their interaction with their environment, their possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Amir Levinson , Roger Blandford

Jet luminosity from active galaxies and the rate of star formation have recently been found to be uncorrelated observationally. We show how to understand this in the context of a model in which powerful AGN jets enhance star formation for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-11 David Garofalo , Brent McDaniel , Max North

We report the detection of fast (~ 1000 km/s), massive outflows of neutral gas observed -- using the WSRT -- as 21-cm HI absorption against the strong radio continuum of seven radio sources. The neutral outflows occur, in at least somes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Morganti , C. N. Tadhunter , T. A. Oosterloo