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We have made angular broadening measurements in the satellite line of the OH molecule at 1612 MHz of 8 OH/IR stars located near the Galactic Center with the Very Large Array. Early observations with the Very Long Baseline Array had revealed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 D. A. Frail , P. J. Diamond , J. M. Cordes , H. J. Van Langevelde

Weak interstellar scintillations of pulsar B0809+74 were observed at two epochs using a 30m EISCAT antenna at 933 MHz. These have been used to constrain the spectrum, the distribution and the transverse velocity of the scattering plasma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Barney Rickett , Bill Coles , Jussi Markkanen

Short time-scale flux density variations of flat spectrum radio sources are often explained by the scattering of radio waves in the turbulent, ionized Interstellar Matter of the Milky Way. One of the most convincing observational arguments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-26 K. E. Gabanyi , N. Marchili , T. P. Krichbaum , L. Fuhrmann , P. Muller , J. A. Zensus , X. Liu , H. G. Song

We examine the long-term evolution of the intra-hour variable quasar, J1819+3845, whose variations have been attributed to interstellar scintillation by extremely local turbulent plasma, located only 1-3pc from Earth. The variations in this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 A. G. de Bruyn , J. -P. Macquart

Previous VLBI observations of the lens system CLASS B0128+437 showed that the lensed source had a triple sub-component structure. However, one of the images looked very different to the others and it has been suggested that this is due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Biggs

We present new observations of the gravitational lens system CLASS B0128+437. HST observations detect a very faint, extended object in I-band with no emission from the lensed images visible; no detection at all is made in V-band. The lens…

Multi-wavelength VLA observations of two extended radio galaxies, 0235-197 and 1203+043 are presented. There is some evidence from earlier studies that these two sources exhibit low frequency (<1 GHz) variability. This work shows that both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Junor , F. Mantovani , R. Morganti , L. Padrielli

We have used VLBA fringe visibility data obtained at 15 GHz to examine the compact structure in 250 extragalactic radio sources. For 171 sources in our sample, more than half of the total flux density seen by the VLBA remains unresolved on…

We have used the NRAO Very Large Array (VLA) in conjunction with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) Pie Town antenna as a real-time interferometer system to measure the size of the extragalactic source J1801-231 as a function of frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. J. Claussen , W. M. Goss , K. M. Desai , C. L. Brogan

The high brightness temperatures, $T_\mathrm{b}\gtrsim 10^{13}$ K, detected in several active galactic nuclei by RadioAstron space VLBI observations challenge theoretical limits. Refractive scattering by the interstellar medium may affect…

We present the results of a $\lambda$20 cm VLA observation of the compact Galactic center radio source Sgr A$^*$. The scatter-broadened image is elongated in the East-West direction, with an axial ratio of 0.6$\pm$0.05 and a position angle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Yusef-Zadeh W. Cotton M. Wardle F. Melia , D. Roberts

We present new Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) images of the central region of the W49A star-forming region at 3.6~cm and at 7~mm at resolutions of 0\farcs15 (1650 au) and 0\farcs04 (440 au), respectively. The 3.6~cm data reveal new…

The galaxy cluster Abell 523 (A523) hosts an extended diffuse synchrotron source historically classified as a radio halo. Its radio power at 1.4 GHz makes it one of the most significant outliers in the scaling relations between observables…

The extreme, intra-hour and > 10% rms flux density scintillation observed in AGNs such as PKS 0405-385, J1819+3845 and PKS 1257-326 at cm wavelengths has been attributed to scattering in highly turbulent, nearby regions in the interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-09-22 J. Y. Koay , H. E. Bignall , J. -P. Macquart , D. L. Jauncey , B. J. Rickett , J. E. J. Lovell

We report the discovery of fast, frequency-dependent intensity variations from the scintillating intra-day variable quasar J1819+3845 at a wavelength of 21cm which resemble diffractive interstellar scintillations observed in pulsars. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jean-Pierre Macquart , Ger de Bruyn

Comparing the asymmetry coefficients and scintillation indices for observed time variations of the intensity of the radiation of extragalactic sources and the predictions of theoretical models is a good test of the nature of the observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Shishov , T. V. Smirnova , S. A. Tyul'bashev

We have detected substructure within the smooth scattering disk of the celebrated Galactic Center radio source Sagittarius A* (SgrA*). We observed this structure at 1.3 cm wavelength with the Very Long Baseline Array together with the Green…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-03 C. R. Gwinn , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. D. Johnson , V. A. Soglasnov

We investigate the feasibility of detecting and probing various components of the ionized intergalactic medium (IGM) and their turbulent properties at radio frequencies through observations of scatter broadening of compact sources. There is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-01 J. Y. Koay , J. -P. Macquart

We studied the turbulence spectrum of the local interstellar plasma in the direction of PSR J0437-4715, on the basis of our observations and those reported earlier by others. We combine these data to form a structure function for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. V. Smirnova , C. R. Gwinn , V. I. Shishov