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The Blandford and K\"{o}nigl model of AGN jets predicts that the position of the apparent opaque jet base - the core - changes with frequency. This effect is observed with radio interferometry and is widely used to infer parameters and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-10 I. N. Pashchenko , A. V. Plavin , A. M. Kutkin , Y. Y. Kovalev

Jet physics in relativistic heavy ion collisions, which combines perturbative QCD jet production with quark and gluon energy loss and in-medium parton shower modification, has emerged as a powerful tool to probe the properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-24 Ben-Wei Zhang , Yuncun He , R. B. Neufeld , Ivan Vitev , Enke Wang

For jets, with great power comes great opportunity. The unprecedented center of mass energies available at the LHC open new windows on the QGP: we demonstrate that jet shape and jet cross section measurements become feasible as a new,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-20 Ivan Vitev , Simon Wicks , Ben-Wei Zhang

We report multifrequency phase-referenced observations of the nearby radio galaxy NGC 4261, which has prominent two-sided jets, using the Very Long Baseline Array at 1.4-43 GHz. We measured radio core positions showing observing frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-14 Takafumi Haga , Akihiro Doi , Yasuhiro Murata , Hiroshi Sudou , Seiji Kameno , Kazuhiro Hada

Magnetic field threading a black hole ergosphere is believed to play the key role in both driving the powerful relativistic jets observed in active galactic nuclei and extracting the rotational energy from a black hole via Blandford-Znajek…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-23 E. Nokhrina

Energetic jets that traverse the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions serve as excellent probes to study this new state of deconfined QCD matter. Presently, however, our ability to achieve a crisp theoretical interpretation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Daniel Pablos , Alba Soto-Ontoso

The most suitable way to study the jet quenching as a function of distance traversed is varying the impact parameter b of ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collision (initial energy density in nuclear overlapping zone is almost independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 I. P. Lokhtin , A. M. Snigirev

Supermassive black holes launch highly relativistic jets with velocities reaching Lorentz factors as high as $\Gamma>50$. How the jets accelerate to such high velocities and where along the jet do they reach terminal velocity are open…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 I. Liodakis , T. Hovatta , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , M. A. Gurwell , A. Lähteenmäki , M. Tornikoski

We explore the impact of "slow-light" radiative transfer - i.e., general relativistic radiative transfer (GRRT) calculations in which the simulated fluid evolves while light rays are propagating through it - in general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Yuh Tsunetoe , Dominic W. Pesce , Ramesh Narayan

The relationship between observed variability time and emission region geometry is explored for the case of emission by relativistic jets. The approximate formula for the jet-frame size of the emission region, $R'=Dc\Delta t_{\rm obs}$ is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Protheroe

The interaction of supersonic laser-generated plasma jets with a secondary gas target was studied experimentally. The plasma parameters of the jet, and the resulting shock, were characterized using a combination of multi-frame…

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

Two-dimensional (2D) jet tomography is a promising tool to study jet medium modification in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. It combines gradient (transverse) and longitudinal jet tomography for selection of events with localized initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-02 Yu-Xin Xiao , Yayun He , Long-Gang Pang , Hanzhong Zhang , Xin-Nian Wang

We conducted a detailed analysis of the jet structure and dynamics of the source 0241+622 on milliarcsecond (mas) scales. We stacked images from multiple epochs to better recover the crosssection of the jet. By analyzing the relationship…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-19 Haitian Shang , Wei Zhao , Xiaoyu Hong , Xu-zhi Hu

High-resolution Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry observations of NGC 1052 show a two sided jet with several regions of enhanced emission and a clear emission gap between the two jets.This gap shrinks with increasing frequency and vanishes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 C. M. Fromm , Z. Younsi , A. Bazcko , Y. Mizuno , O. Porth , M. Perucho , H. Olivares , A. Nathanail , E. Angelakis , E. Ros , J. A. Zensus , L. Rezzolla

The phase transition and jet quenching parameter ${\hat q}$ have been investigated in the framework of dynamical holographic QCD model. It is found that both the trace anomaly and the ratio of the jet quenching parameter over cubic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-02 Danning Li , Jinfeng Liao , Mei Huang

We analyze the polarization of optically thin, stationary, axisymmetric black hole jets at scales of order the light cylinder radius. Our work generalizes the face-on results of Gelles et al. (2025) to arbitrary viewing inclination. Due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Zachary Gelles , Andrew Chael , Eliot Quataert

Accurate alignment of the radio and optical celestial reference frames requires detailed understanding of physical factors that may cause offsets between the positions of the same object measured in different spectral bands. Opacity in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-21 Y. Y. Kovalev , A. P. Lobanov , A. B. Pushkarev , J. A. Zensus

One of the tools that can provide evidence about the existence of helical magnetic fields in AGN is the observation of rotation measure gradients across the jet. Such observations have been previously made successfully, proving that such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. C. Algaba

The medium modification of jet substructure in hot and dense nuclear matter has garnered significant interest from the heavy-ion physics community in recent years. Measurements of inclusive jets show an angular narrowing in nucleus-nucleus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-22 Sa Wang , Yao Li , Jin-Wen Kang , Ben-Wei Zhang