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We describe new efforts to model radio active galactic nuclei (AGN) in a cosmological context using the SAGE semi-analytic galaxy model. Our new method tracks the physical properties of radio jets in massive galaxies, including the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-09 Mojtaba Raouf , Stanislav S. Shabala , Darren J. Croton , Habib G. Khosroshahi , Maksym Bernyk

Protostellar jets are one of the primary signposts of star formation. A handful of protostellar objects exhibit radio emission from ionized jets, of which a few display negative spectral indices, indicating the presence of synchrotron…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Sreelekshmi Mohan , Sarita Vig , Samir Mandal

We present high angular resolution X-ray images and spectra from two {\em Chandra} ACIS-I observations of the X-ray jet in the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A. We find that the X-ray emission from the jet is composed of a low surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. P. Kraft , W. R. Forman , C. Jones , S. S. Murray , M. J. Hardcastle , D. M. Worrall

We have identified a large (~200 kpc), powerful double radio source whose host galaxy is clearly a disk and most likely a spiral. This FR I radio galaxy is located very near the center of the RC 0 cluster Abell 428. The existence of such an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael J. Ledlow , Frazer N. Owen , Min S. Yun , John M. Hill

Radio imaging of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) during various flaring, quiescent, or oscillatory states of the black hole binary, always resolves the nucleus as a compact jet of length about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Dhawan , I. F. Mirabel , L. F. Rodriguez

We present results of our detailed theoretical study of the observed orbital modulation of the radio emission in Cyg X-1. The modulation occurs due to free-free absorption in the wind from the companion star varying with the orbital phase,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Szostek , A. A. Zdziarski

The jet axes and the orbital planes of microquasar systems are usually assumed to be approximately perpendicular, eventhough this is not currently an observational requirement. On the contrary, in one of the few systems where the relative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yousaf M. Butt , Thomas J. Maccarone , Nikos Prantzos

We present the first high resolution X-ray image of the jet in M 87 using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. There is clear structure in the jet and almost all of the optically bright knots are detected individually. The unresolved core is the…

In the current paradigm, it is believed that the compact VLBI radio core of radio-loud AGNs represents the innermost upstream regions of relativistic outflows. These regions of AGN jets have generally been modeled by a conical outflow with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-11 Juan-Carlos Algaba , Masanori Nakamura , Keiichi Asada , Sang-Sung Lee

We investigate the interaction between relativistic jets and supernova (SN) ejecta as a potential origin of X-ray knots in radio galaxies, employing knot A in M 87 as a test case. By modeling the dynamical evolution of the interaction, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-06 Jia-Chun He , Xiao-Na Sun , Hao-Qiang Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Hai-Ming Zhang , Da-Bin Lin , En-Wei Liang

Despite significant strides made towards understanding accretion, outflow, and emission processes in the Galactic Center supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, the presence of jets has neither been rejected nor proven. We investigate here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sera Markoff , Geoffrey C. Bower , Heino Falcke

The radio source M81* at the core of the nearby spiral galaxy M81 is a low-luminosity active galactic nucleus. The close distance of 3.63Mpc allows its morphology to be studied in great detail. Here we present preliminary results from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-27 Eduardo Ros , Miguel-Angel Perez-Torres

Mrk~231 is the closest radio-quiet quasar known and one of the most luminous infrared galaxies in the local Universe. It is characterised by the co-existence of a radio jet and powerful multi-phase multi-scale outflows, making it an ideal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Ailing Wang , Tao An , Sumit Jaiswal , Prashanth Mohan , Yuchan Wang , Willem A. Baan , Yingkang Zhang , Xiaolong Yang

We present the new HST near-infrared polarimetry, broad and narrow-band imaging, and MERLIN 4.5GHz Multi-Frequency Synthesis radio imaging of 3C 293, a unique radio galaxy whose host is an obvious merger remnant, in an exceptionally…

We propose that the intensity changes and spectral evolution along the M87 jet can be explained by adiabatic changes to the particle momentum distribution function and the magnetic field. This is supported by the lack of any significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 S. Heinz , M. C. Begelman

We calculate the radiative properties of Sagittarius A* -- spectral energy distribution, variability, and radio-infrared images -- using the first 3D, physically motivated black hole accretion models that directly evolve the electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 Sean M. Ressler , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Eliot Quataert , Charles F. Gammie

We present numerical simulations investigating the interaction of AGN jets with galaxy clusters, for the first time taking into account the dynamic nature of the cluster gas and detailed cluster physics. The simulations successfully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Heinz , M. Brueggen , A. Young , E. Levesque

The observations of jet breaks in the afterglows of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) indicate that the jet has a small opening angle of < 10{\deg}. The collimation mechanism of the jet is a longstanding theoretical problem. We numerically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Hiroki Nagakura , Kenta Hotokezaka , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Kunihito Ioka

We consider a jet-disk symbiosis model to explain Gamma Ray Bursts and their afterglows. It is proposed that GRBs are created inside a pre-existing jet from a neutron star in a binary system which collapses to a black hole due to accretion.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Giovanna Pugliese , Heino Falcke , Yiping Wang , Peter L. Biermann