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The compact radio source Sgr\,A*, associated with the super massive black hole at the center of the Galaxy, has been studied with VLBA observations at 3 frequencies (22, 43, 86\,GHz) performed on 10 consecutive days in May 2007. The total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 R. -S. Lu , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Eckart , S. König , D. ~Kunneriath , G. Witzel , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus

We are using "broadband" (4.6 to 43 GHz) multi-frequency VLBA polarization observations of compact AGN to investigate the 3-D structure of their jet magnetic (B) fields. Observing at several frequencies, separated by short and long…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-01 Shane P. O'Sullivan , Denise C. Gabuzda

We report multi-epoch Very Long Baseline Interferometric (VLBI) observations of the compact radio lobe in the radio galaxy 3C84 (NGC1275) during 2016 - 2020. The image sequence of 3C84 reveals that the hotspot in the radio lobe showed the…

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) may exist in the centers of galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGN) and are expected to be fairly common in the Universe as a consequence of merging processes between galaxies. The existence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. De Paolis , G. Ingrosso , A. A. Nucita

The radio source at the center of the cool core galaxy cluster RBS 797 (z=0.35) is known to exhibit a misalignment of its radio jets and lobes observed at different VLA-scale, with the innermost kpc-scale jets being almost orthogonal to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Gitti , M. Giroletti , G. Giovannini , L. Feretti , E. Liuzzo

The VLBI observations at 22 GHz and 43 GHz of the quasar 3C273 obtained during a multi-frequency campaign in late 1992 in the radio, millimetre and X-ray bands allow us to derive the components' angular sizes, their peak fluxes and turnover…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Mantovani , W. Junor , I. M. McHardy , C. Valerio

Very long baseline interferometric observations of the radio galaxy 3C 120 show a systematic presence of gradients in Faraday rotation and degree of polarization across and along the jet. These are revealed by the passage of multiple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-17 J. L. Gomez , I. Agudo , A. P. Marscher , S. G. Jorstad , M. Roca-Sogorb

We present deep 3 GHz VLA observations of the potentially recoiling black hole CID-42 in the COSMOS field. This galaxy shows two optical nuclei in the HST/ACS image and a large velocity offset of ~ 1300 km/s between the broad and narrow H…

The polarized images of the supermassive black hole Messier 87* (M87*) produced by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provide a direct view of the near-horizon emission from a black hole accretion and jet system. The EHT theoretical analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Michi Baubock , Charles F. Gammie

The spatially resolved broad-band spectroscopy with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) is one of the few methods that can probe the physical conditions inside blazar jets. We report on measurements of the magnetic field strength in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-19 K. V. Sokolovsky , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. P. Lobanov , T. Savolainen , A. B. Pushkarev , M. Kadler

In recent years, the jet formation region in active galaxies has been imaged through mm-VLBI in few ideal targets, first and foremost M87. An important leap forward for understanding jet launching could be made by identifying a larger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-12 B. Boccardi , L. Ricci , E. Madika , V. Bartolini , U. Bach , P. Grandi , E. Torresi , T. P. Krichbaum , J. A. Zensus

We present a comprehensive multifrequency VLBI analysis of the FRII, high-excitation radio galaxy 3C 452, aiming to resolve and analyze for the first time its twin-jet structure on sub-parsec scales. Our data set comprises High Sensitivity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 Eftychia Madika , Bia Boccardi , Luca Ricci , Paola Grandi , Eleonora Torresi , Gabriele Giovannini , Matthias Kadler , J. Anton Zensus

We present a comprehensive multiband spectral and polarimetric study of the jet of 3C 264 (NGC 3862). Included in this study are three HST optical and ultraviolet polarimetry data sets, along with new and archival VLA radio imaging and…

3C 84 is the brightest cluster galaxy in the Perseus Cluster. It is among the closest radio-loud active galaxies and among the very few that can be detected from low frequency radio up to TeV $\gamma$-rays. Here we report on the first X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 Ioannis Liodakis , Sudip Chakraborty , Frédéric Marin , Steven R. Ehlert , Thibault Barnouin , Pouya M. Kouch , Kari Nilsson , Elina Lindfors , Tapio Pursimo , Georgios F. Paraschos , Riccardo Middei , Anna Trindade Falcão , Svetlana Jorstad , Iván Agudo , Yuri Y. Kovalev , Jacob J. Casey , Laura Di Gesu , Philip Kaaret , Dawoon E. Kim , Fabian Kislat , Ajay Ratheesh , M. Lynne Saade , Francesco Tombesi , Alan Marscher , Francisco José Aceituno , Giacomo Bonnoli , Víctor Casanova , Gabriel Emery , Juan Escudero Pedrosa , Daniel Morcuende , Jorge Otero-Santos , Alfredo Sota , Vilppu Piirola , Rumen Bachev , Anton Strigachev , George A. Borman , Tatiana S. Grishina , Vladimir A. Hagen-Thorn , Evgenia N. Kopatskaya , Elena G. Larionova , Daria A. Morozova , Sergey S. Savchenko , Ekaterina V. Shishkina , Ivan S. Troitskiy , Yulia V. Troitskaya , Andrey A. Vasilyev , Alexey V. Zhovtan , Ioannis Myserlis , Mark Gurwell , Garrett Keating , Ramprasad Rao , Sincheol Kang , Sang-Sung Lee , Sanghyun Kim , Whee Yeon Cheong , Hyeon-Woo Jeong , Chanwoo Song , Shan Li , Myeong-Seok Nam , Diego Álvarez-Ortega , Carolina Casadio , Emmanouil Angelakis , Alexander Kraus , Jenni Jormanainen , Vandad Fallah Ramazani , Chien-Ting Chen , Enrico Costa , Eugene Churazov , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Giorgio Galanti , Ildar Khabibulin , Stephen L. O'Dell , Luigi Pacciani , Marco Roncadelli , Oliver J. Roberts , Paolo Soffitta , Douglas A. Swartz , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Martin C. Weisskopf , Irina Zhuravleva

We present results from a large global VLBI(Very Long Baseline Interferometry) survey of compact radio sources at 86 GHz which started in October 2001. The main goal of the survey is to increase the total number of objects accessible for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-14 S. Lee , A. P. Lobanov , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus , M. Bremer , A. Greve , M. Grewing

3C 84 (NGC 1275) is the radio source at the center of the Perseus Cluster and exhibits a bright radio jet. We observed the source with the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA) between 2008 and 2015, with a typical angular resolution of…

We present VLA radio maps in total intensity and polarization at 1.4, 4.9 and 8.4 GHz of fifteen 3CR radio galaxies for which good maps showing the large-scale radio structure have not previously been available. Previously unknown cores are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Michael Harvanek , Martin J. Hardcastle

We monitored the superluminal QSO 3C 345 at three epochs during a one-year period in 1995--1996, observing with the VLBA at 22, 15, 8.4, and 5 GHz. We imaged the radio source both in total and in polarized intensity. In the images at 5 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Ros , J. A. Zensus , A. P. Lobanov

Using VLBI to measure a so-called core shift effect is a common way of obtaining estimates of the jet magnetic field strength. The VLBI core is typically identified as the bright feature at the jet's base, and the position of the core…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 Wara Chamani , Tuomas Savolainen , Eduardo Ros , Yuri Y. Kovalev , Kaj Wiik , Anne Lähteenmäki , Merja Tornikoski , Joni Tammi

We present the results of six-epoch Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of 3C~66A. The high-resolution Very Long Baseline Interferometer (VLBI) maps obtained at multi-frequency (2.3, 8.4, and 22.2 GHz) simultaneously enabled us to…