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Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations show that some active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets exhibit bending even at parsec scales. The nature of bending is comprehensively analysed only for a small number of individual AGN, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-05 V. A. Makeev , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B. Pushkarev

The nature of jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the early Universe and their feedback to the host galaxy remain a highly topical question. Observations of the radio structure of high-redshift AGNs enabled by very long baseline…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Y. Zhang , T. An , A. Wang , S. Frey , L. I. Gurvits , K. E. Gabanyi , K. Perger , Z. Paragi

The European VLBI Network (EVN) is in the process of establishing an e-VLBI array in which the radio telescopes and the EVN correlator at JIVE are connected in real-time, via high-speed national fibre optic networks and the pan-European…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Garrett

The Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA) is the highest angular resolution imaging interferometer currently available as a common user facility. It is capable of angular resolutions on the order of 40 microarcseconds. Currently 14 stations in the…

Radio galaxies are relatively faint at $\gamma$-ray energies, where they make up only 1-2% of all AGN detected by Fermi-LAT. However, they offer a unique perspective to study the intrinsic properties of AGN jets. For this reason, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Roberto Angioni , Florian Rösch , Eduardo Ros , Matthias Kadler , Roopesh Ojha , Cornelia Müller , Robert Schulz

We combine Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data for $\sim100$ active galactic nuclei (AGN) available from the Very Large Baseline Array (VLBA) 2 cm imaging survey and optical spectroscopy to investigate the relationships in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. G. Arshakian , V. H. Chavushyan , E. Ros , M. Kadler , J. A. Zensus

We present total and linearly polarized 3 mm Global mm-VLBI Array images of a sample of blazars and radio galaxies from the VLBA-BU-BLAZAR 7 mm monitoring program designed to probe the innermost regions of active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets…

We present results of simultaneous dual-frequency (2 GHz and 8 GHz) very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of 12 active galactic nuclei with prominent jets. Spectral properties of the jets and evolution of their brightness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-16 A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. P. Lobanov

Compact radio cores in radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are classical targets of Very-Long-Baseline interferometric (VLBI) research. Until today little has been known about their X-ray properties in comparison to radio-quiet AGNs.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Kadler , E. Ros , J. Kerp , Y. Y. Kovalev , J. A. Zensus

We observed the gravitationally lensed blazar JVAS B0218+357 with the KVN and VERA Array (KaVA) at 22, 43, and 86 GHz. The source has recently been identified as an active gamma-ray source up to GeV/TeV energy bands, rendering a unique…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-03 Kazuhiro Hada , Kotaro Niinuma , Julian Sitarek , Cristiana Spingola , Ayumi Hirano

We have performed a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) survey of local (z < 0.05) ultra hard X-ray (14-195 keV) selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) using KVN, KaVA, and VLBA. We first…

We investigate statistical and individual astrophysical properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), such as parsec-scale flux density, core dominance, angular and linear sizes, maximum observed brightness temperatures of VLBI core…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev

M87 is one of the nearest radio galaxies with a central SMBH and a prominent relativistic jet. Due to its close distance to the observer and the large SMBH mass, the source is one of the best laboratories to obtain strong observational…

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We discuss the technique of Wide-field imaging as it applies to Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). In the past VLBI data sets were usually averaged so severely that the field-of-view was typically restricted to regions extending a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. Garrett , R. W. Porcas , A. Pedlar , T. W. B. Muxlow , S. T. Garrington

Imaging relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) at angular resolution significantly surpassing that of the ground-based VLBI at centimetre wavelengths is one of the key science objectives of the RadioAstron space-VLBI mission.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-10 Gabriele Bruni , Tuomas Savolainen , Jose Luis Gómez , Andrei P. Lobanov , Yuri Y. Kovalev

Very long baseline interferometry at millimetre/submillimetre wavelengths (mmVLBI) offers the highest achievable spatial resolution at any wavelength in astronomy. The anticipated inclusion of ALMA as a phased array into a global VLBI…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 R. P. J. Tilanus , T. P. Krichbaum , J. A. Zensus , A. Baudry , M. Bremer , H. Falcke , G. Giovannini , R. Laing , H. J. van Langevelde , W. Vlemmings , Z. Abraham , J. Afonso , I. Agudo , A. Alberdi , J. Alcolea , D. Altamirano , S. Asadi , K. Assaf , P. Augusto , A-K. Baczko , M. Boeck , T. Boller , M. Bondi , F. Boone , G. Bourda , R. Brajsa , J. Brand , S. Britzen , V. Bujarrabal , S. Cales , C. Casadio , V. Casasola , P. Castangia , J. Cernicharo , P. Charlot , L. Chemin , Y. Clenet , F. Colomer , F. Combes , J. Cordes , M. Coriat , N. Cross , F. D'Ammando , D. Dallacasa , J-F. Desmurs , R. Eatough , A. Eckart , D. Eisenacher , S. Etoka , M. Felix , R. Fender , M. Ferreira , E. Freeland , S. Frey , C. Fromm , L. Fuhrmann , K. Gabanyi , R. Galvan-Madrid , M. Giroletti , C. Goddi , J. Gomez , E. Gourgoulhon , M. Gray , I. di Gregorio , R. Greimel , N. Grosso , J. Guirado , K. Hada , A. Hanslmeier , C. Henkel , F. Herpin , P. Hess , J. Hodgson , D. Horns , E. Humphreys , B. Hutawarakorn Kramer , V. Ilyushin , V. Impellizzeri , V. Ivanov , M. Julião , M. Kadler , E. Kerins , P. Klaassen , K. van 't Klooster , E. Kording , M. Kozlov , M. Kramer , A. Kreikenbohm , O. Kurtanidze , J. Lazio , A. Leite , M. Leitzinger , J. Lepine , S. Levshakov , R. Lico , M. Lindqvist , E. Liuzzo , A. Lobanov , P. Lucas , K. Mannheim , J. Marcaide , S. Markoff , I. Martí-Vidal , C. Martins , N. Masetti , M. Massardi , K. Menten , H. Messias , S. Migliari , A. Mignano , J. Miller-Jones , D. Minniti , P. Molaro , S. Molina , A. Monteiro , L. Moscadelli , C. Mueller , A. Müller , S. Muller , F. Niederhofer , P. Odert , H. Olofsson , M. Orienti , R. Paladino , F. Panessa , Z. Paragi , T. Paumard , P. Pedrosa , M. Pérez-Torres , G. Perrin , M. Perucho , D. Porquet , I. Prandoni , S. Ransom , D. Reimers , M. Rejkuba , L. Rezzolla , A. Richards , E. Ros , A. Roy , A. Rushton , T. Savolainen , R. Schulz , M. Silva , G. Sivakoff , R. Soria-Ruiz , R. Soria , M. Spaans , R. Spencer , B. Stappers , G. Surcis , A. Tarchi , M. Temmer , M. Thompson , J. Torrelles , J. Truestedt , V. Tudose , T. Venturi , J. Verbiest , J. Vieira , P. Vielzeuf , F. Vincent , N. Wex , K. Wiik , T. Wiklind , J. Wilms , E. Zackrisson , H. Zechlin

There is still a limited number of high-redshift ($z>3$) active galactic nuclei (AGN) whose jet kinematics have been studied with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). Without a dedicated proper motion survey, regularly conducted…

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…

VLBI astrometry allows coordinates of celestial radio sources to be determined with submilliarcsecond accuracy. In particular, with differential VLBI astrometry, the standard errors of relative positions and proper motions can be as small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norbert Bartel

We have a project to measure magnetic fields in the obscuring tori of AGNs. We observed five free-free absorbed jets in radio galaxies with polarimetric VLBI at 15 GHz to determine Faraday rotation measures. Surprisingly, all sources are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Middelberg