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We present Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) HI absorption observations of the core region of the powerful radio galaxy Cygnus A. These data show both broad (FWHM = 231 \pm 21 km/s) and narrow (FWHM <30 km/s) velocity width absorption…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Christian Struve , John E. Conway

Our previous studies revealed a good kinematic model for the jet of Cygnus A, but the counter-jet speed is still not well constrained. The central engine and part of the counter-jet of Cyg A are likely to be obscured by free-free absorbing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-10 U. Bach , T. P. Krichbaum , E. Middelberg , W. Alef , J. A. Zensus

We present a spectral analysis of the lobes and X-ray jets of Cygnus A, using more than 2 Ms of $\textit{Chandra}$ observations. The X-ray jets are misaligned with the radio jets and significantly wider. We detect non-thermal emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 M. N. de Vries , M. W. Wise , D. Huppenkothen , P. E. J. Nulsen , B. Snios , M. J. Hardcastle , M. Birkinshaw , D. M. Worrall , R. T. Duffy , B. R. McNamara

Aims. We revisit the vicinity of the microquasar Cygnus X-3 at radio wavelengths. We aim to improve our previous search for possible associated extended radio features/hot spots in the position angle of the Cygnus X-3 relativistic jets…

Our recent VLBI observations of the prominent FR II radio galaxy Cygnus A with the EVN and the VLBA reveal a pronounced two-sided jet structure. At 5 GHz, we now have 4 epochs from 1986, 1991 (Carilli et al., 1991 & 1994), 1996 and 2002…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Bach , T. P. Krichbaum , W. Alef , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus

We use deep archival Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of three of the brightest cluster-centre radio galaxies in the sky, Cygnus A, Hercules A and Hydra A, to search for inverse-Compton emission from the population of electrons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. J. Hardcastle , J. H. Croston

We present a multiwavelength study of the nucleus, environment, jets, and hotspots of the nearby FRII radio galaxy 3C 321, using new and archival data from MERLIN, the VLA, Spitzer, HST, and Chandra. An initially collimated radio jet…

We present the results of a deep search for associated radio features in the vicinity of the microquasar Cygnus X-3. The motivation behind is to find out evidence for interaction between its relativistic jets and the surrounding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Marti , D. Perez-Ramirez , J. L. Garrido , P. Luque-Escamilla , J. M. Paredes

We observed the Galactic black hole Cygnus X-1 with the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer for 30 kiloseconds on 4 January, 2001. The source was in an intermediate state, with a flux that was approximately twice that…

High-resolution Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry observations of relativistic jets are essential to constrain fundamental parameters of jet formation models. At a distance of 249 Mpc, Cygnus A is a unique target for such studies, being the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 B. Boccardi , T. P. Krichbaum , U. Bach , F. Mertens , E. Ros , W. Alef , J. A. Zensus

We use a combination of high spatial resolution optical and near-IR spectroscopic data to make a detailed study of the kinematics of the NLR gas in the near-nuclear regions of the powerful, FRII radio galaxy Cygnus A (z=0.0560), with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Tadhunter , A. Marconi , D. Axon , K. Wills , T. G. Robinson , N. Jackson

We present the first direct imaging of what may be the thick torus in the active galactic nucleus (AGN) of the archetype powerful radio galaxy Cygnus A, using the Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at 18 GHz to 48 GHz, with a resolution down to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-17 C. L. Carilli , R. A. Perley , V. Dhawan , D. A. Perley

This paper presents observations of Cygnus A at 74 and 327 MHz at angular resolutions of approximately 10" and 3", respectively. These observations are among the highest angular resolutions obtained below 1000 MHz for this object. While the…

We report X-ray observations of the nearby, powerful radio galaxy Pictor A with the Chandra Observatory and optical and near uv observations of its western radio hot spot with the Hubble Space Telescope. X-ray emission is detected from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. S. Wilson , A. J. Young , P. L. Shopbell

RAFGL2591 is a massive star-forming complex in the Cygnus-X region comprising of a cluster of embedded protostars and young stellar objects located at a distance of 3.33 kpc. We investigate low-frequency radio emission from the protostellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-08 A. G. Cheriyan , S. Vig , Sreelekshmi Mohan

We detail the spectral analysis of a 170 ks XRISM Resolve observation of the core of Cygnus A. The high spectral resolution of Resolve have enabled us to probe the inner accretion region of Cygnus A by analyzing the 6.4 keV Fe K$\alpha$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Anwesh Majumder , T. Heckman , L. Gu , A. Simionescu , B. R. McNamara , A. Ptak , E. Hodges-Kluck , M. Yukita , M. W. Wise , N. Roy

New Chandra observations of the giant (0.5 Mpc) radio galaxy 4C23.56 at z = 2.5 show X-rays in a linear structure aligned with its radio emission, but anti-correlated with the detailed radio structure. Consistent with the powerful, high-z…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Katherine Blundell , Andy Fabian

The Centaurus A radio galaxy, due to its proximity, presents itself as one of the few systems that allow the study of relativistic jet outflows at sub-parsec distances from the central supermassive black holes, with high signal to noise. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-03 Steve Prabu , Steven J Tingay , Arash Bahramian , James C. A. Miller-Jones , Callan M. Wood , Shane P. O'Sullivan

We present deep radio images of the inner 50 kpc of Centaurus A, taken with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at 90cm. We focus on the Transition Regions between the inner galaxy - including the active nucleus, inner radio lobes,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Susan G. Neff , Jean A. Eilek , Frazer N. Owen

I summarize Xray properties of high redshift radio galaxies, beginning with a brief review of what has been learned from Xray observations of low redshift powerful radio galaxies (in particular, Cygnus A), and then turning to Chandra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. L. Carilli