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The high resolution image of the jet of the BL Lac object MKN501 in radio, show a limb-brightened feature. An explanation of this feature as an outcome of differential Doppler boosting of jet spine and jet boundary due to transverse…

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We analysed the parsec-scale linear polarization properties of 436 active galactic nuclei (AGN) based on 15 GHz polarimetric Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations. We present polarization and total intensity images averaged over at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-07 A. B. Pushkarev , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , D. C. Homan , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , I. N. Pashchenko , T. Savolainen , D. Zobnina

The results of VLBI total intensity (I) and linear polarization (P) observations at 6cm are presented for ten radio bright BL Lacertae objects. These images complete first-epoch polarization observations for the 1-Jy sample of northern BL…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. C. Gabuzda , A. B. Pushkarev , T. V. Cawthorne

The Lund jet plane (LJP) is measured for the first time in $t\overline{t}$ events, using 140 fb$^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The LJP is a two-dimensional observable of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-28 ATLAS Collaboration

Observations of several protostellar jets show systematic differences in radial velocity transverse to the jet propagation direction, which have been interpreted as evidence of rotation in the jets. In this paper we discuss the origin of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Fabio De Colle , Adriano H. Cerqueira , Angels Riera

Light curves of eight BL Lac objects in the BVRI bands have been analyzed. All of the objects tend to be bluer when brighter. However spectral slope changes differ quantitatively from those of a sample of QSOs analyzed in a previous paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fausto Vagnetti , Dario Trevese , Roberto Nesci

The first measurement of jet shapes, defined as the fractional transverse momentum radial distribution, for inclusive jets produced in heavy-ion collisions is presented. Data samples of PbPb and pp collisions, corresponding to integrated…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-02-17 CMS Collaboration

Context.Coherence in the characteristics of neighboring sources in 2D and 3D space may suggest the existence of large-scale cosmic structures, which are useful for cosmological studies. Numerous works have been conducted to detect such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 N. Mandarakas , D. Blinov , C. Casadio , V. Pelgrims , S. Kiehlmann , V. Pavlidou , K. Tassis

We discuss acceleration measurements for a large sample of extragalactic radio jets from the MOJAVE program which studies the parsec-scale jet structure and kinematics of a complete, flux-density-limited sample of Active Galactic Nuclei…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-20 D. C. Homan , M. Kadler , K. I. Kellermann , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , E. Ros , T. Savolainen , J. A. Zensus

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 results from the highest resolution polarization imaging survey of a complete sample of extragalactic radio sources carried out to date. Our sample consists of a statistically complete flat-spectrum subset of 32 AGNs from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthew L. Lister

We discuss our recent results on azimuthal distributions in vector boson + jets and multi-jet production at the LHC, obtained from the matching of next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative matrix elements with transverse momentum dependent…

Relativistic jets are a common feature of radio loud active galactic nuclei. Multifrequency observations are a unique tool to constrain their physics. We report on a detailed study of the properties of the jet of the nearby BL Lac object…

In this paper we use radio polarimetric observations of the jet of the nearby bright quasar 3C\,345 to estimate the fluid velocity on kiloparsec scales. The jet is highly polarized, and surprisingly, the electric vector position angles in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 David H. Roberts , John F. C. Wardle

We investigate the magnetic field configuration of the M87 jet at arc-second scales by using archival polarimetric VLA data at 8, 15, 22 and 43 GHz. By stacking images over three years in order to enhance the sensitivity, we reveal, for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-31 J. C. Algaba , K. Asada , M. Nakamura

We report new results from an HST archival program to study proper motions in the optical jet of the nearby radio galaxy M87. Using over 13 years of archival imaging, we reach accuracies below 0.1c in measuring the apparent velocities of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Eileen T. Meyer , W. B. Sparks , J. A. Biretta , Jay Anderson , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Roeland P. van der Marel , Colin Norman , Masanori Nakamura

Helical magnetic fields embedded in the jets of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are required by the broad range of theoretical models that advocate for electromagnetic launching of the jets. In most models, the direction of the magnetic field…

The transverse beam pattern, usually observed in experiment, is a result of averaging the optical-frequency oscillations of the electromagnetic field distributed over the beam cross section. An analytical criterion is derived that these…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Ya. Bekshaev

For the first time it has become possible to compare global 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) jet formation simulations directly to very-long baseline interferometric multi-frequency polarization observations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Avery E. Broderick , Jonathan C. McKinney

We report the results of a phase-referencing study aimed at uncovering precession of the VLBI jet of BL Lac. The observations were conducted at 8, 15, 22, and 43 GHz and consist of seven epochs spanning about two years. We investigated the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-26 A. Sokolov , T. Cawthorne
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