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Accreting black holes produce collimated outflows, or jets, that traverse many orders of magnitude in distance, accelerate to relativistic velocities, and collimate into tight opening angles. Of these, perhaps the least understood is jet…

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We have investigated the differences in apparent opening angles between the parsec-scale jets of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) during its first 24 months of operations and those of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 A. B. Pushkarev , M. L. Lister , Y. Y. Kovalev , T. Savolainen

We have measured the angular sizes of radio cores of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and analyzed their sky distributions and frequency dependencies to study synchrotron opacity in AGN jets and the strength of angular broadening in the…

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We find evidence for large-scale clustering amongst Fermi-selected BL Lac objects but not amongst Fermi-selected FSRQs. Using two-point correlation functions we have investigated the clustering properties of different classes of objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-08 M. J. M. Marcha , I. W. A. Browne

The kinematics of jets in active galactic nuclei (QSOs, BL Lacs, Radio Galaxies and Empty Field objects) on parsec scales is being studied with Very Long Baseline Array observations at 15 GHz of a sample of more than 170 radio sources. More…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ros

Context: The long-standing question concerning jetted subgalactic-size (JSS) radio sources is whether they will evolve into large radio galaxies, die before escaping the host galaxy, or remain indefinitely confined to their compact size.…

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Published analyses of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data for the sources included in the third International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF3) catalog have revealed object-specific, excess astrometric variability and…

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We investigate the polarization of Compton scattered X-rays from relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei using Monte Carlo simulations. We consider three scenarios: scattering of photons from an accretion disk, scattering of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Aimee McNamara , Zdenka Kuncic , Kinwah Wu

We present polarization images with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in A and B-array configurations at 6 GHz of 7 radio-loud (RL) quasars and 8 BL Lac objects belonging to the Palomar-Green (PG) `blazar' sample. This completes our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-12 Janhavi Baghel , P. Kharb , T. Hovatta , Luis C. Ho , C. Harrison , E. Lindfors , Silpa S. , S. Gulati

Many quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) appear in radio, optical, and X-ray maps, as a bright nuclear sources from which emerge single or double long, thin jets. When observed with high angular resolution these jets show structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gennady Bisnovatyi-Kogan

We present the results from a broadband (1 to 3 GHz), spectro-polarimetry study of the integrated emission from 100 extragalactic radio sources with the ATCA, selected to be highly linearly polarized at 1.4 GHz. We use a general purpose,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 S. P. O'Sullivan , C. R. Purcell , C. S. Anderson , J. S. Farnes , X. H. Sun , B. M. Gaensler

We present 6 and 20 cm JVLA/VLA observations of the northern head of the HH 80/81/80N jet, one of the largest collimated jet systems known so far, aimed to look for knots further away than HH 80N, the northern head of the jet. Aligned with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Josep M. Masqué , Josep M. Girart , Robert Estalella , Luis F. Rodríguez , Maria T. Beltrán

The extragalactic gamma-ray sky is dominated by relativistic jets aligned to the observer's line of sight, i.e., blazars. A few of their misaligned counterparts, e.g., radio galaxies, are also detected with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-15 Vaidehi S. Paliya , D. J. Saikia , Alberto Domínguez , C. S. Stalin

The currents carried by the jets of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can be probed using maps of the Faraday rotation measure (RM), since a jet current will be accompanied by a toroidal magnetic (B) field, which will give rise to a systematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-16 Denise C. Gabuzda , Matt Nagle , Naomi Roche

A number of groups have recently been active in searching for gradients in the ob- served Faraday rotation measure (RM) across jets of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) on various scales and estimating their reliability. Such RM structures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-27 Denise C. Gabuzda , Naomi Roche , Amy Kirwan , Sebastian Knuettel , Matt Nagle , Caolan Houston

What causes the dichotomy between very powerful and very weak radio emission from AGNs? Perhaps the engines are the same but the jets get disrupted by dense ISM in radio-quiet objects, or else the engines are intrinsically different with…

We describe the parsec-scale kinematics of 200 AGN jets based on 15 GHz VLBA data obtained between 1994 Aug 31 and 2011 May 1. We present new VLBA 15 GHz images of these and 59 additional AGN from the MOJAVE and 2 cm Survey programs. Nearly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-17 M. L. Lister , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , D. C. Homan , K. I. Kellermann , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B. Pushkarev , J. L. Richards , E. Ros , T. Savolainen

Relatively few Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) polarization observations have been carried out at 18 cm. The importance of such observations lies in their ability to reveal information about the jet magnetic ({\bf B}) field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-01 Péter Veres , Denise C. Gabuzda

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

Following our study of the radio and high-energy properties of $\gamma$-ray-emitting radio galaxies, here we investigate the kinematic and spectral properties of the parsec-scale jets of radio galaxies that have not yet been detected by…