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Compact radio cores in radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are classical targets of Very-Long-Baseline interferometric (VLBI) research. Until today little has been known about their X-ray properties in comparison to radio-quiet AGNs.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Kadler , E. Ros , J. Kerp , Y. Y. Kovalev , J. A. Zensus

Jetted Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) exhibit variability across a wide range of time scales. Traditionally, this variability can often be modeled well as a stochastic process. However, in certain cases, jetted AGN variability displays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-03 P. Penil , A. Domínguez , S. Buson , M. Ajello , S. Adhikari , A. Rico

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

We perform polarimetry analysis of 20 active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 1.4, 1.6, 2.2, 2.4, 4.6, 5.0, 8.1, 8.4, and 15.4 GHz. The study allowed us to investigate linearly polarized properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-12 E. V. Kravchenko , Y. Y. Kovalev , K. V. Sokolovsky

A detailed analysis of the evolution of the properties of core-jet systems within the VLBA Imaging and Polarimetry Survey (VIPS) is presented. We find a power-law relationship between jet intensity and width that suggests for the typical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. F. Helmboldt , G. B. Taylor , R. C. Walker , R. D. Blanford

Numerous studies have reported significant displacements in the coordinates of active galactic nuclei between measurements using radio interferometry techniques and those obtained by the Gaia space observatory. There is a consensus that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 Dmitry Blinov , Arina Arshinova

The formation of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is related to accretion on to their central supermassive black holes, and magnetic fields are believed to play a central role in launching, collimating and accelerating the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-23 Juliana C. Motter , Denise C. Gabuzda

Significant positional offsets of the value from 1 mas to more than 10 mas were found previously between radio (VLBI) and optical (Gaia) positions of active galactic nuclei (AGN). They happen preferentially parallel to the parsec-scale jet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-12 Y. Y. Kovalev , D. I. Zobnina , A. V. Plavin , D. Blinov

Highly collimated relativistic jets are a defining feature of certain active galactic nuclei (AGN), yet their formation mechanism remains elusive. Previous observations and theoretical models have proposed that the ambient medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-22 Jongho Park , Motoki Kino , Hiroshi Nagai , Masanori Nakamura , Keiichi Asada , Minchul Kam , Jeffrey A. Hodgson

There is still a limited number of high-redshift ($z>3$) active galactic nuclei (AGN) whose jet kinematics have been studied with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). Without a dedicated proper motion survey, regularly conducted…

Simulations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets have thus far been performed almost exclusively using grid-based codes. We present the first results from hydrodynamical tests of AGN jets, and their interaction with the intracluster medium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-22 Filip Huško , Cedric G. Lacey

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs), hosting powerful relativistic jet outflows, provide an excellent laboratory for studying jet physics. Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) enables high-resolution imaging on milli-arcsecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 X. -P. Cheng , T. An , X. -Y. Hong , J. Yang , P. Mohan , K. I. Kellermann , M. L. Lister , S. Frey , W. Zhao , Z. -L. Zhang , X. -C. Wu , X. -F. Li , Y. -K. Zhang

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

We have investigated a frequency-dependent shift in the absolute position of the optically thick apparent origin of parsec-scale jets ("core shift" effect) to probe physical conditions in ultra-compact relativistic outflows in AGN. We used…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-20 A. B. Pushkarev , T. Hovatta , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , A. P. Lobanov , T. Savolainen , J. A. Zensus

A long standing problem in the study of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) is that the observed VLBI core is in fact a blending of the actual AGN core (classically defined by the $\tau=1$ surface) and the upstream regions of the jet or optically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Juan-Carlos Algaba , Jeffrey Hodgson , Sin-Cheol Kang , Dae-Won Kim , Jae-Young Kim , Jee Won Lee , Sang-Sung Lee , Sascha Trippe

Active Galactic Nucleus jets have long be thought to exhibit a conical jet shape, but recently, several jets were found to have a transition from parabolic to conical structure. As more sources are investigated, this collimation profile…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-06 ZhanHao Ng , Juan Carlos Algaba , Zamri Zainal Abidin

Compact relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei offer an effective tool for investigating the physics of nuclear regions in galaxies. The emission properties, dynamics, and evolution of jets in AGN are closely connected to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei Lobanov

The transverse stratification of active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets is suggested by observations and theoretical arguments, as a consequence of intrinsic properties of the central engine (accretion disc + black hole) and external medium. On…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 O. Hervet , Z. Meliani , A. Zech , C. Boisson , V. Cayatte , C. Sauty , H. Sol

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…

In a recent publication, we reported results of a multi-frequency VLBI campaign of observations of the Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) in galaxy M\,81, phase-referenced to the supernova SN\,1993J. We were able to extract precise information…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-22 I. Marti-Vidal , J. M. Marcaide , A. Alberdi , A. Brunthaler