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Imaging strong blazars with space VLBI
Eduardo RosL. Vega-garcíaManel PeruchoAndrei LobanovGabriele BruniJ. Anton ZensusYuri Y. KovalevYuri Y. KovalevYuri Y. Kovalevsubject
PhysicsAtmospheric ScienceJet (fluid)Active galactic nucleus010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesmedia_common.quotation_subjectAerospace EngineeringAstronomy and AstrophysicsAstrophysicsSpace (mathematics)01 natural sciencesGeophysicsAstrophysical jetSpace and Planetary ScienceSkyBrightness temperature0103 physical sciencesVery-long-baseline interferometryGeneral Earth and Planetary SciencesBlazar010303 astronomy & astrophysics0105 earth and related environmental sciencesmedia_commondescription
Abstract The RadioAstron mission has obtained a series of detailed multi-frequency images of the brightest blazars of the radio sky concentrated in three key science programs. We present here results of the program on powerful jets in blazars. In the first two years of the mission, observations of compact relativistic jets in 0836+710, 3C 345, 3C 273, and 4C +69.21 were made at λ λ 18, 6, and 1.3 cm. The resulting images have revealed compact emitting regions with brightness temperature in excess of 10 13 K and a complex jet structure that can be explained by plasma instability developing in a relativistic outflow. We present here some highlights of these space-VLBI observations, designed to resolve the innermost regions in these powerful targets and address some of the still unanswered questions on their physical nature.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-01 | Advances in Space Research |