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In a previous work, we have identified the spin of the dominant black hole of a binary from its jet properties. Analysing Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of the quasar S5~1928+738, taken at $15$-GHz during $43$ epochs between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-06 E. Kun , S. Britzen , S. Frey , K. É. Gabányi , L. Á. Gergely

We consider several protostellar systems where either a precessing jet or at least two misaligned jets have been observed. We assume that the precession of jets is caused by tidal interactions in noncoplanar binary systems. For Cep E, V1331…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Terquem , J. Eisloffel , J. Papaloizou , R. Nelson

The central radio source in M87 provides the best opportunity to study jet formation because it has a large angular size for the gravitational radius of the black hole and has a bright jet that is well resolved by VLBI observations. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 R. Craig Walker , Phillip E. Hardee , Frederick B. Davies , Chun Ly , William Junor

Aims. The prototypical microquasar GRS 1758-258 exhibits large-scale morphological changes in radio maps over time which have been attributed to the rise of instabilities. Here, we investigate whether these effects could be attributed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Pedro L. Luque-Escamilla , Josep Martí , José Martínez-Aroza

In this paper, we have modelled the dynamical and emission properties (in the presence of radiative losses and diffusive shock acceleration) of an observed S-shaped radio source (2MASX J12032061+131931) due to a precessing jet. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Gourab Giri , Ravi Pratap Dubey , K. Rubinur , Bhargav Vaidya , Preeti Kharb

The approximately 11-year jet precession period observed in M87* strongly suggests that the supermassive rotating black hole with a tilted accretion disk, which could provide a powerful constraint for confining the parameters of black hole.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 Tao-Tao Sui , Xiang-Cheng Meng , Xin-Yang Wang

The bright blazar OJ 287 is the best-known candidate for hosting a supermassive black hole binary system. It inspirals due to the emission of nanohertz gravitational waves (GWs). Observations of historical and predicted quasi-periodic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Lankeswar Dey , Mauri J. Valtonen , A. Gopakumar , Rocco Lico , Jose L. Gomez , Abhimanyu Susobhanan , S. Komossa , Pauli Pihajoki

It has been observed that many relativistic jets display a kind of cork-screw-like precession. Numerical simulations has suggested that such kind of precession may originate from the precession of the disk. In this work, we introduce an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-08 Ye Shen , Bin Chen

The V380 Ori NE bipolar outflow was imaged in the SiO and CO J = 1 - 0 lines, and dense cores in L1641 were observed in the 2.0-0.89 mm continuum. The highly collimated SiO jet shows point-symmetric oscillation patterns in both position and…

The nearby Seyfert type galaxy NGC 1275 contains a bright radio nucleus at its center, revealed through high-spatial resolution imaging to be the source of the jets emanating from the galaxy. Coincident with the emergence of a new component…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Pengfei Zhang , Zhongxiang Wang , Mark Gurwell , Paul J. Wiita

BL Lacertae is the prototype of the BL Lac class of active galactic nuclei, exhibiting intensive activity on parsec (pc) scales, such as intense core variability and multiple ejections of jet components. In particular, in previous works the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Anderson Caproni , Zulema Abraham , Hektor Monteiro

Recently, a perturbative calculation to the first post-Newtonian order has shown that the analytically worked out Lense-Thirring precession of the orbital angular momentum of a test particle following a circular path around a massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-07 Lorenzo Iorio

The precession of astrophysical jets produced by active-galactic nuclei is likely related to the dynamics of the accretion disks surrounding the central supermassive black holes (BHs) from which jets are launched. The two main mechanisms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-05 Nathan Steinle , Davide Gerosa , Martin G. H. Krause

Analyzing single-dish and VLBI radio, as well as \textit{Fermi}-LAT $\gamma$-ray observations, we explained the three major flares in the $\gamma$-ray light curve of FSRQ J1048+7143 with the spin--orbit precession of the dominant mass black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-09 Emma Kun , Ilja Jaroschewski , Julia Becker Tjus , Silke Britzen , Sándor Frey , Krisztina Éva Gabányi , Lang Cui , Xin Wang , Yuling Shen

Recently, the temporal evolution of the angles characterizing the spatial configuration of the jet in the supermassive black hole M87$^\ast$ was measured exhibiting a precessional pattern around the hole's spin axis. It would be due to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-11 Lorenzo Iorio

We present a detailed analysis of 30 very long baseline interferometric observations of the BL Lac object S5 1803+784 (z=0.679), obtained between mean observational time 1994.67 and 2012.91 at observational frequency 15 GHz. The long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-12 E. Kun , M. Karouzos , K. É. Gabányi , S. Britzen , O. M. Kurtanidze , L. Á. Gergely

The Very Large Array has been used at five frequencies to study the structure and linear polarization of SS433 on scales as small as ~0.1" ~ 500 AU. Each jet consists of a sharp, curving ridge-line at the leading edge, plus significant…

Context. OJ287 is a quasar with a quasi-periodic optical light curve, with the periodicity observed for over 120 years. This has lead to a binary black hole model as a common explanation of the quasar. The radio jet of OJ287 has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Mauri Valtonen , Pauli Pihajoki

We try to propose a tentative relativistic jet model for explaining the entire radio-optical phenomena observed in blazar OJ287, which has been observed quasi-periodically with a cycle of about 12yr in its optical light curve. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-29 Shanjie Qian

We show that the observational data of extragalactic radio sources tend to support the theoretical relationship between the jet precession period and the optical luminosity of the sources, as predicted by the model in which an accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ju-Fu Lu , Bo-Yan Zhou