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Based on the K\"onigl's inhomogeneous jet model, we estimate the jet parameters, such as bulk Lorentz factor $\Gamma$, viewing angle $\theta$ and electron number density $n_{\rm e}$ from radio VLBI and X-ray data for a sample of active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Minfeng Gu , Xinwu Cao , D. R. Jiang

We present a new method for studying the intrinsic brightness temperatures of the parsec-scale jet cores of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Our method uses observed superluminal motions and observed brightness temperatures for a large sample…

We present a new method to measure Gamma*theta_j in flux-limited samples of active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets, where Gamma is the bulk Lorentz factor and theta_j is the jet's half-opening angle. The Gamma*theta_j parameter is physically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-25 Eric Clausen-Brown , Tuomas Savolainen , Alexander B. Pushkarev , Yuri Y. Kovalev , Matthew L. Lister

Physical parameters of AGN jets observed with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) are usually inferred from the core shift measurements or flux and size measured at a peak frequency of the synchrotron spectrum. Both are preceded by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-05 Ilya N. Pashchenko , Alexander V. Plavin

Two key results are presented in this paper. First, equipartition Doppler factors have been estimated for a sample of 105 sources with previously estimated inverse Compton Doppler factors. The different categories of active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 R. A. Daly , E. J. Guerra , A. Guijosa

We investigate statistical and individual astrophysical properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), such as parsec-scale flux density, core dominance, angular and linear sizes, maximum observed brightness temperatures of VLBI core…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev

We discuss results from a decade long program to study the fine-scale structure and the kinematics of relativistic AGN jets with the aim of better understanding the acceleration and collimation of the relativistic plasma forming AGN jets.…

We present a correlation analysis between the flux ratio of high-energy gamma-ray emission to synchrotron emission and the Doppler factor for a sample of EGRET AGNs. The results favor a model that attributes the EGRET emission of AGNs to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. H. Huang , D. R. Jiang , Xinwu Cao

We report that active galactic nucleus (AGN) jets are causally connected on parsec scales, based on 15 GHz Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) data from a sample of 133 AGN jets. This result is achieved through a new method for measuring the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-28 E. Clausen-Brown , T. Savolainen , A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev , J. A. Zensus

Context: Few Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) reveal a double sided jet system. However, these are crucial to understand basic physical properties of extragalactic jets. Aims: We address the questions whether jets in AGN are symmetric in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 A. -K. Baczko , R. Schulz , M. Kadler , E. Ros , M. Perucho , C. M. Fromm , J. Wilms

The relationship between observed variability time and emission region geometry is explored for the case of emission by relativistic jets. The approximate formula for the jet-frame size of the emission region, $R'=Dc\Delta t_{\rm obs}$ is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Protheroe

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei are among the most powerful objects in the universe. In these objects, most of the emission comes from relativistic jets getting their power from the accretion of matter onto supermassive black holes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-26 Thomas Vuillaume , Gilles Henri , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci

It is suggested that the outflowing plasma in the jets of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is inhomogeneous and consists of separate clouds. These clouds are strongly magnetized and move away from the central engine at relativistic speeds. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 V. V. Usov , M. V. Smolsky

The analysis of the frequency dependence of the observed shift of the cores of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) allows us to evaluate the number density of the outflowing plasma n and, hence, the multiplicity parameter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-13 E. E. Nokhrina , V. S. Beskin , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. A. Zheltoukhov

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

Synchrotron self-absorption in active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets manifests itself as a time delay between flares observed at high and low radio frequencies. It is also responsible for the observing frequency dependent change in size and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-17 Alexander Kutkin , Ilya Pashchenko , Kirill Sokolovsky , Yuri Y. Kovalev , Margo Aller , Hugh Aller

We present multi-epoch, parsec-scale core brightness temperature observations of 447 AGN jets from the MOJAVE and 2cm Survey programs at 15 GHz from 1994 to 2019. The brightness temperature of each jet over time is characterized by its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-14 D. C. Homan , M. H. Cohen , T. Hovatta , K. I. Kellermann , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , A. V. Popkov , A. B. Pushkarev , E. Ros , T. Savolainen

The Doppler factor ($\delta$) is a fundamental quality for the relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei (AGNs). It is also fundamental to assessing the number of the entire population of the jetted AGN at high redshift ($z$), and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Dahai Yan , Haiyun Zhang , Jianeng Zhou , Lijuan Dong

We present a numerical model developed to calculate observed fluxes of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei. The observed flux of each turbulent eddy is dependent upon its variable Doppler boosting factor, computed as a function of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-06 Victoria Calafut , Paul J. Wiita

We have used the VLBA at 5 GHz to observe all galaxies with nuclear radio flux densities above 3.5 mJy found in a VLA survey at 15 GHz of a sample of nearby LINER galaxies. All galaxies were detected revealing high brightness temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Heino Falcke , Neil M. Nagar , Andrew S. Wilson , James S. Ulvestad
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