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We present a new centimeter polarimetric VLBI image of the BL Lac object 0735+178. This source exhibits one of the most pronounced curvatures observed in jets of AGNs, with two sharp apparent bends of 90 degrees within the inner 2…

The model of non-ballistic jet motion proposed in 2008 provides a simple explanation to the inward jet motion and bent jet. Recently, evidences of such a non-radial motion increase rapidly, and more complicated morphologies appear. On the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Biping Gong , S. W. Kong , F. Xue , Yaping Li , Y. F. Huang

In order to study precession and interstellar magnetic field variations, we measured the polarized position angle of 81 pulsars at several-month intervals for four years. We show that the uncertainties in a single-epoch measurement of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-04 Joel M. Weisberg , John E. Everett , James M. Cordes , Justin J. Morgan , Drew G. Brisbin

The triple radio source detected in association with the luminous infrared source IRAS 16547-4247 has previously been studied with high angular resolution and high sensitivity with the Very Large Array (VLA) at 3.6-cm wavelength. In this…

The latest binary black hole population estimates argue for a subpopulation of unequal component mass binaries with spins that are likely small but isotropically distributed. This implies a non-zero probability of detecting spin-induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-14 Charlie Hoy , Stephen Fairhurst , Ilya Mandel

An increasing number of blazars have been reported to show jet wobbling (i.e., non-regular rotations of the structural position angle of their innermost jets in the plane of the sky with amplitudes between 20 deg. and 50 deg., and time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-25 I. Agudo

Type-C quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black hole X-ray transients typically manifest in the low-hard and hard-intermediate states. This study presents a detailed spectral and temporal analysis of the black hole candidate Swift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-30 Jie Liao , Ning Chang , Lang Cui , Pengfei Jiang , Didong Mou , Yongfeng Huang , Tao An , Luis C. Ho , Hua Feng , Yu-Cong Fu , Hongmin Cao , Ashutosh Tripathi , Xiang Liu

Short precession periods like 164d of SS433 can be well determined by observations of time scales longer or much longer than the precession period. However, it doesn't work for sources with precession periods of millions of years. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 B. P. Gong , Y. P. Li , H. C. Zhang

We report the results from a six-year, multi-epoch very long baseline interferomertry monitoring of the Seyfert galaxy NGC3079. We have observed NGC3079 during eight epochs between 1999 and 2005 predominantly at 5GHz, but covering the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Enno Middelberg , Ivan Agudo , Alan L. Roy , Thomas P. Krichbaum

At present, there is no doubt that relativistic jets observed in active galactic nuclei pass from highly magnetized to weakly magnetized stage, which is observed as a break in the dependence on their width $d_{\rm jet}(z)$ on the distance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-28 V. S. Beskin , T. I. Khalilov , E. E. Nokhrina , I. N. Pashchenko , E. V. Kravchenko

The main aim of the present paper is the very first analysis of the binary-orbit precession out of our Galaxy. The light curves of an eclipsing binary MACHO 82.8043.171 in the Large Magellanic cloud (LMC) were studied in order to analyse…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-13 P. Zasche , M. Wolf

We present multi-epoch 8.4 and 43 GHz Very Long Baseline Array images of the BL Lac object 0735+178. The images confirm the presence of a twisted jet with two sharp apparent bends of 90$^{\circ}$ within two milliarcseconds of the core,…

We present here the results from a second epoch of phase-referenced VLBA observations of 8 Seyfert and LINER galaxies from the KISSR sample. These sources were chosen based on the presence of double peaks or asymmetries in their emission…

Detection of periodicity in the broad-band non-thermal emission of blazars has so far been proven to be elusive. However, there are a number of scenarios which could lead to quasi-periodic variations in blazar light curves. For example,…

Using 5 GHz radio luminosity at light-curve maximum as a proxy for jet power and black-hole spin measurements obtained via the continuum-fitting method, Narayan & McClintock (2012) presented the first direct evidence for a relationship…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 James F. Steiner , Jeffrey E. McClintock , Ramesh Narayan

We report the detection of a new feature at the centre of NGC 1275 in the Perseus cluster, hosting the radio source 3C 84. This feature emerges ~ 2 mas (~ 0.8 pc) north of the central core in recent 15 and 43 GHz VLBA images, and seems to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-29 Yutaka Fujita , Hiroshi Nagai

We present a sequence of five deep observations of SS433 made over the summer of 2007 using the VLA in the A configuration at 5 and 8 GHz. In this paper we study the brightness profiles of the jets and their time evolution. We also examine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-28 Michael R. Bell , David H. Roberts , John F. C. Wardle

From 1994 to 1997 we monitored the optical spectrum of RXJ0019.8+2156. This supersoft X-ray source is one of only two accreting white dwarfs in the Galaxy thought to be burning hydrogen on their surface as a consequence of a high rate of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. M. Becker , R. A. Remillard , S. A. Rappaport , J. E. McClintock

We present here new observations conducted with the EVN and MERLIN of the persistent microquasar LS 5039 discovered by Paredes et al. (2000) with the VLBA. The new observations confirm the presence of an asymmetric two-sided jet reaching up…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Paredes , M. Ribo , E. Ros , J. Marti , M. Massi

In addition to the large surveys and catalogs of massive young stellar objects and outflows, dedicated studies of particular sources, in which high-angular observations (mainly at near-IR and mm) are analyzed in depth, are needed to shed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-19 S. Paron , D. Mast , C. Fariña , M. B. Areal , M. E. Ortega , N. C. Martinez , M. Celis Peña