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The magnetic field morphology of relativistic jets can be studied with circular polarization (CP). Recent 3D relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) simulations coupled with radiative transfer calculations make strong predictions about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Joana A Kramer , Hendrik Müller , Jan Röder , Eduardo Ros

We present results from a combined radio polarization and emission line study of five type 2 quasars at $z<0.2$ with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) B-array at 5 GHz and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) [O III] observations. These…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-19 Silpa Sasikumar , P. Kharb , C. M. Harrison , A. Girdhar , D. Mukherjee , V. Mainieri , M. E. Jarvis

We present circular polarization results from a 5 GHz survey of the parsec-scale polarization properties of 40 AGN made with the VLBA. We find 11 circular polarization detections at the 3 sigma level or higher. This nearly quadruples the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Daniel C. Homan , Joanne M. Attridge , John F. C. Wardle

We present VLA and first-epoch VLBA observations that are part of a program to study the parsec-scale radio structure of a sample of fifteen high-energy-peaked BL Lacs (HBLs). The sample was chosen to span the range of logarithmic X-ray to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. A. Rector , D. C. Gabuzda , J. T. Stocke

We present the first deep VLA radio images of flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) with multiwavelength emission properties similar to those of BL Lacs with synchrotron X-rays. Our observations of twenty-five of these sources show that their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hermine Landt , Eric S. Perlman , Paolo Padovani

We analyze the parsec-scale jet kinematics from 2007 June to 2018 December of a sample of $\gamma$-ray bright blazars monitored roughly monthly with the Very Long Baseline Array at 43 GHz under the VLBA-BU-BLAZAR program. We implement a…

Results from a long-term program to quantify the range of behavior of the cm-wavelength total flux and linear polarization variability properties of a sample of 41 radio-loud BL Lac objects using weekly to tri-monthly observations with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Margo F. Aller , Hugh D. Aller , Philip A. Hughes , George E. Latimer

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

We present the results from the first large (>100 source) 3.5 mm polarimetric survey of radio loud active galactic nuclei (AGN). The I, Q, U, and V Stokes parameter observations were performed with the XPOL polarimeter at the IRAM 30m…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 I. Agudo , C. Thum , H. Wiesemeyer , T. P. Krichbaum

Millimeter-band polarimetry offers a powerful probe of AGN jets, accessing regions less affected by opacity and Faraday rotation than at longer radio wavelengths. As part of the POLAMI program, we have conducted 14 years of 1 mm and 3 mm…

We present new sub-arcsecond-resolution Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) imaging at 10 GHz of 155 ultra-luminous ($L_{\rm bol}\sim10^{11.7-14.2} L_\odot$) and heavily obscured quasars with redshifts $z \sim0.4-3$. The sample was…

We present analysis of the flux and polarization variability of parsec scale radio jets from a dual-frequency, six-epoch, VLBA polarization experiment monitoring 12 blazars. The observations were made at 15 and 22 GHz at bimonthly intervals…

The past 20 years have seen phenomenal progress in our understanding of BL Lac objects. They form part of the blazar class, which are radio-loud AGN whose relativistic jets are aligned along our line of sight. Several critical milestones…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Megan Urry

We study the linear polarization of the radio cores of eight blazars simultaneously at 22, 43, and 86 GHz with observations obtained by the Korean VLBI Network (KVN) in three epochs between late 2016 and early 2017 in the frame of the…

Gamma-ray emitting blazars have been the targets of many recent or ongoing monitoring programmes. The resulting multi-wavelength data archives are ideal for studying the quiescent and variable behaviour of the blazar PKS 2155-304. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Nikki Pekeur , Russ Taylor , Renée Kraan-Korteweg

We report on new multi-frequency Very Large Array (VLA) radio observations and Chandra X-ray observations of a radio-loud quasar with a ~300 kpc long jet, PKS 1127-145, during a flaring event detected in $\gamma$-rays by the Fermi Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 M. Orienti , A. Siemiginowska , F. D'Ammando , G. Migliori

We study the correlations between the Very Long Baseline Array radio emission at 15 GHz, extended emission at 151 MHz, and optical nuclear emission at 5100 AA for a complete sample of 135 compact jets. We use the partial Kendall's tau…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-13 T. G. Arshakian , J. Torrealba , V. H. Chavushyan , E. Ros , M. L. Lister , I. Cruz-González , J. A. Zensus

The $\gamma$-ray bright blazar CTA 102 is studied using imaging (new 15 GHz and archival 43 GHz Very Long Baseline Array, VLBA data) and time variable optical flux density, polarization degree and electric vector position angle (EVPA)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 Xiaofeng Li , P. Mohan , T. An , Xiaoyu Hong , Xiaopeng Cheng , Jun Yang , Yingkang Zhang , Zhongli Zhang , Wei Zhao

Blazars can be divided into two subtypes, flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and BL Lac objects, which have been distinguished phenomenologically by the strength of their optical emission lines, while their physical nature and relationship…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Makoto Uemura , Taisei Abe , Yurika Yamada , Shiro Ikeda