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3 mm GMVA Observations of Total and Polarized Emission from Blazar and Radio Galaxy Core Regions.

Authors :
Casadio, Carolina
Krichbaum, Thomas P.
Marscher, Alan P.
Jorstad, Svetlana G.
Gómez, José L.
Agudo, Iván
Bach, Uwe
Jae-Young Kim
Hodgson, Jeffrey A.
Zensus, Anton J.
Source :
Galaxies (2075-4434); 2017, Vol. 5 Issue 4, p67, 7p, 1 Chart, 3 Graphs
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

We present total and linearly polarized 3 mm Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA; mm-VLBI: Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations at millimetre wavelengths) images of a sample of blazars and radio galaxies from the VLBA-BU-BLAZAR 7 mm monitoring program designed to probe the innermost regions of active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets and locate the sites of gamma-ray emission observed by the Fermi-LAT. The lower opacity at 3 mm and improved angular resolution—on the order of 50 microarcseconds—allow us to distinguish features in the jet not visible in the 7 mm VLBA data. We also compare two different methods used for the calibration of instrumental polarisation and we analyze the resulting images for some of the sources in the sample. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20754434
Volume :
5
Issue :
4
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Galaxies (2075-4434)
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
127028375
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies5040067