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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"…

The jet may compress an interstellar medium and soft X-ray may be absorbed outside the jet by a compressed interstellar medium and thermal emission heated by a shock is expected inside the jet. I analyze X-ray image of surroundings of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-14 S. Osone

This paper presents new observations of the AGNs M87 and Hydra A at 90 GHz made with the MUSTANG bolometer array on the Green Bank Telescope at 8.5" resolution. A spectral analysis is performed combining this new data and archival VLA data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 W. D. Cotton , B. S. Mason , S. Dicker , P. Korngut , M. J. Devlin , J. Aguirre , D. Benford , H. Moseley , J. Staguhn , K. Irwin , P. Ade

M87 hosts a 3-6 billion solar mass black hole with a remarkable relativistic jet that has been regularly monitored in radio to TeV bands. However, hard X-ray emission \gtrsim 10keV, which would be expected to primarily come from the jet or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-07 Ka-Wah Wong , Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Jimmy A. Irwin , Dacheng Lin

Relativistic jets propagating through an ambient medium must produce some observational effects along their side boundaries because of interactions across the large velocity gradient. One possible effect of such an interaction would be a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 M. G. Dainotti , M. Ostrowski , D. Harris , A. Siemiginowska , H. Siejkowski

At present, there is no doubt that relativistic jets observed in active galactic nuclei pass from highly magnetized to weakly magnetized stage, which is observed as a break in the dependence on their width $d_{\rm jet}(z)$ on the distance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-28 V. S. Beskin , T. I. Khalilov , E. E. Nokhrina , I. N. Pashchenko , E. V. Kravchenko

Observational studies of inner-most regions of the edge-on jets in nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN) are crucial to understand their kinematics and morphology. For the inner jet of the nearby low luminosity AGN in M 84, we present new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 Xuezheng Wang , Wu Jiang , Zhiqiang Shen , Lei Huang , Kazuhiro Hada , Yuzhu Cui , Ru-Sen Lu

Through very long baseline interferometry observations of one of the closest low-luminosity active galactic nuclei M81* at multifrequencies of 8.8, 22 and 44GHz, a bright discrete knot with an unusual low apparent speed $\sim$0.1c was…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-16 Xuezheng Wang , Wu Jiang , Zhiqiang Shen , Zhen Yan , Ya-Ping Li , Ivan Martí-Vidal , Roman Gold

We present images from five observations of the quasar 3C 273 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The jet has at least four distinct features which are not resolved in previous observations. The first knot in the jet (A1) is very bright in…

Our Chandra observation of the FRI radio galaxy 3C66B has resulted in the first detection of an X-ray counterpart to the previously known radio, infra-red and optical jet. The X-ray jet is detected up to 7 arcsec from the core and has a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 M. J. Hardcastle , M. Birkinshaw , D. M. Worrall

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) show a range of morphologies and dynamical properties, which are determined not only by parameters intrinsic to the central engine but also their interaction with the surrounding environment. We investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-16 Soham Mandal , Paul C. Duffell , Yuan Li

We study the optical variability characteristics of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) AGN catalogue by utilising approximately five years of optical light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-12 Vivek Kumar Jha , Debbijoy Bhattacharya , Hum Chand

Stimulated by recent observations of a radio-to-X-ray synchrotron flare from HST-1, the innermost knot of the M 87 jet, as well as by a detection of a very high energy gamma-ray emission from M 87, we investigated the dynamics and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Stawarz , F. Aharonian , J. Kataoka , M. Ostrowski , A. Siemiginowska , M. Sikora

The nearby radio galaxy M87 offers a unique opportunity for exploring the connection between gamma-ray production and jet formation at an unprecedented linear resolution. However, the origin and location of the gamma-rays in this source is…

The central radio source in M87 provides the best opportunity to study jet formation because it has a large angular size for the gravitational radius of the black hole and has a bright jet that is well resolved by VLBI observations. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 R. Craig Walker , Phillip E. Hardee , Frederick B. Davies , Chun Ly , William Junor

We present new and archival multi-frequency radio and X-ray data for Centaurus A obtained over almost 20 years at the VLA and with Chandra, with which we measure the X-ray and radio spectral indices of jet knots, flux density variations in…

We report on the morphological and spectral evolution of SNR 1987A from the monitoring observations with the Chandra/ACIS. As of 2005, the X-ray-bright lobes are continuously brightening and expanding all around the ring. The softening of…

We report on the results of our monitoring program of the X-ray remnant of supernova 1987A with the {\it Chandra X-Ray Observatory}. We have performed two new observations during the {\it Chandra} Cycle 3 period, bringing the total to six…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Park , D. N. Burrows , S. A. Zhekov , E. Michael , R. McCray , G. Hasinger

We report our intensive radio monitoring observations of the jet in M87 with the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA) and the European VLBI Network (EVN) from February 2011 to October 2012, together with contemporaneous high-energy…

We analyze the variability of the parsec-scale jet directions in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Our analysis involves 317 AGNs at frequencies ranging from 2 to 43 GHz, and is made possible by developing an automatic inner jet direction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-11 Ivan Kostrichkin , Alexander Plavin , Alexander Pushkarev , Marina Butuzova