RadioAstron 活动星系核巡天的探测统计
星系天体物理
2020-01-09 v1 高能天体物理现象
摘要
RadioAstron 空间 VLBI 任务最大的关键科学项目是对活动星系核(AGN)的巡天。该巡天的主要目标是测量并研究 AGN 核的亮度,以便在考虑星际散射的同时更好地理解其发射物理。在本文中,我们给出了在 18、6 和 1.3 cm 波长上对完整射电强 AGN 样本进行地基—空间基线观测的探测统计。其中三分之二确实被 RadioAstron 探测到,并发现其核内包含极其致密、数十至数百 μas 的结构。
引用
@article{arxiv.1909.00785,
title = {Detection statistics of the RadioAstron AGN survey},
author = {Y. Y. Kovalev and N. S. Kardashev and K. V. Sokolovsky and P. A. Voitsik and T. An and J. M. Anderson and A. S. Andrianov and V. Yu. Avdeev and N. Bartel and H. E. Bignall and M. S. Burgin and P. G. Edwards and S. P. Ellingsen and S. Frey and C. Garcia-Miro and M. P. Gawronski and F. D. Ghigo and T. Ghosh and G. Giovannini and I. A. Girin and M. Giroletti and L. I. Gurvits and D. L. Jauncey and S. Horiuchi and D. V. Ivanov and M. A. Kharinov and J. Y. Koay and V. I. Kostenko and A. V. Kovalenko and Yu. A. Kovalev and E. V. Kravchenko and M. Kunert-Bajraszewska and A. M. Kutkin and S. F. Likhachev and M. M. Lisakov and I. D. Litovchenko and J. N. McCallum and A. Melis and A. E. Melnikov and C. Migoni and D. G. Nair and I. N. Pashchenko and C. J. Phillips and A. Polatidis and A. B. Pushkarev and J. F. H. Quick and I. A. Rakhimov and C. Reynolds and J. R. Rizzo and A. G. Rudnitskiy and T. Savolainen and N. N. Shakhvorostova and M. V. Shatskaya and Z. -Q. Shen and M. A. Shchurov and R. C. Vermeulen and P. de Vicente and P. Wolak and J. A. Zensus and V. A. Zuga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.00785},
year = {2020}
}
备注
Accepted to the Advances in Space Research special issue "High-resolution Space-Borne Radio Astronomy"