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The Very Large Array has been used at five frequencies to study the structure and linear polarization of SS433 on scales as small as ~0.1" ~ 500 AU. Each jet consists of a sharp, curving ridge-line at the leading edge, plus significant…

Non-VLBI measurements of Faraday rotation at mm wavelengths have been used to constrain mass accretion rates ($\mdot$) onto supermassive black holes in the centre of the Milky Way and in the centre of M87. We constructed general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Monika Moscibrodzka , Jason Dexter , Jordy Davelaar , Heino Falcke

Here we discuss two consecutive MERLIN observations of the X-ray binary LS I +61 303. The first observation shows a double-sided jet extending up to about 200 AU on both sides of a central source. The jet shows a bent S-shaped structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Massi , M. Ribo , J. M. Paredes , S. T. Garrington , M. Peracaula , J. Marti

We discuss the results of the radio studies of the X-ray binaries with relativistic jets. We carried out a multi-frequency (1-30 GHz) daily monitoring of the radio flux variability of the microquasars SS433, GRS1915+105, and Cyg X-3 with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Sergei A. Trushkin , Nikolaj A. Nizhelskij , Nikolaj N. Bursov

The variability in the infrared to millimetre emission from microquasar GRS 1915+105 is believed to be dominated by the system's relativistic jet. In this paper we develop a time-dependent version of the Blandford & Koenigl (1979) jet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ross S. Collins , Christian R. Kaiser , Simon J. Cox

The existence of a gradient in the Faraday rotation measure (RM) of the quasar 3C 273 jet is confirmed by follow-up observations. A gradient transverse to the jet axis is seen for more than 20 mas in projected distance. Taking account of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Keiichi Asada , Makoto Inoue , Seiji Kameno , Hiroshi Nagai

We report simultaneous X-ray and infrared (IR) observations of the Galactic microquasar GRS1915+105 using XTE and the Palomar 200-inch telescope on August 13-15, 1997 UTC. During the last two nights, the microquasar GRS 1915+105 exhibited…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. S. Eikenberry , K. Matthews , E. H. Morgan , R. A. Remillard , R. W. Nelson

Relatively few Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) polarization observations have been carried out at 18 cm. The importance of such observations lies in their ability to reveal information about the jet magnetic ({\bf B}) field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-01 Péter Veres , Denise C. Gabuzda

We are using "broadband" (4.6 to 43 GHz) multi-frequency VLBA polarization observations of compact AGN to investigate the 3-D structure of their jet magnetic (B) fields. Observing at several frequencies, separated by short and long…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-01 Shane P. O'Sullivan , Denise C. Gabuzda

We present results of interferometric polarization observations of the recently discovered magnetar J1745-2900 in the vicinity of the Galactic center. The observations were made with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) on 21 February…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-13 E. V. Kravchenko , W. D. Cotton , F. Yusef-Zadeh , Y. Y. Kovalev

Faraday rotation is an important probe of the magnetic fields and magnetized plasma around active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets. We present a Faraday rotation measure image of the M87 jet between 85.2 GHz and 101.3 GHz with a resolution of ~2"…

We present a sequence of 12 monthly polarimetric 15, 22, and 43 GHz VLBA observations of the radio galaxy 3C 120 revealing a systematic presence of gradients in Faraday rotation and degree of polarization across and along the jet. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -L. Gomez , A. P. Marscher , S. G. Jorstad , I. Agudo , M. Roca-Sogorb

Rotation measure observations of 9 quasars, 4 BL Lacertae objects, and 3 radio galaxies are presented. The rest frame rotation measures in the cores of the quasars and the jets of the radio galaxy M87 are several thousand radians per meter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. T. Zavala , G. B. Taylor

Global VLBI (EVN+VLBA) polarization observations at 5 and 8.4 GHz of ten high redshift (z > 3) quasars are presented. The core and jet brightness temperatures are found through modelling the self-calibrated uv-data with Gaussian components,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-13 Shane P. O'Sullivan , Denise C. Gabuzda , Leonid I. Gurvits

We present multiepoch VLBA observations of the compact jet of GRS 1915+105 conducted at 15.0 and 8.4 GHz during a {\it plateau} state of the source in 2003 March-April. These observations show that the compact jet is clearly asymmetric.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ribo , V. Dhawan , I. F. Mirabel

Maps of Galactic polarized continuum emission at 1408, 1660, and 1713 MHz towards the local Taurus molecular cloud complex were made with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope. Minima in the polarized emission which are located at the boundary of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maik Wolleben , Wolfgang Reich

The radio emitting X-ray binary GRS 1915+105 shows a wide variety of X-ray and radio states. We present a decade of monitoring observations, with the RXTE-ASM and the Ryle Telescope, in conjunction with high-resolution radio observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Rushton , R. E. Spencer , G. Pooley , S. Trushkin

Using the Very Long Baseline Array, we have measured a trigonometric parallax for the micro quasar GRS 1915+105, which contains a black hole and a K-giant companion. This yields a direct distance estimate of 8.6 (+2.0,-1.6) kpc and a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 M. J. Reid , J. E. McClintock , J. F. Steiner , D. Steeghs , R. A. Remillard , V. Dhawan , R. Narayan

We present polarisation observations of the gravitational lens system B1422+231 made at 8.4 GHz using the VLBA and the 100m telescope at Effelsberg. All four images of the quasar show structure on the milliarcsec scale. The three bright…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. R. Patnaik , A. J. Kemball , R. W. Porcas , M. A. Garrett

We investigate the previously proposed possibility that multi-epoch broadband polarimetry could act as a complement or limited proxy for VLBI observations of blazars, in that the number of polarised emission components in the jet, and some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 C. S. Anderson , S. P. O'Sullivan , G. H. Heald , T. Hodgson , A. Pasetto , B. M. Gaensler