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MOJAVE:用VLBA实验监测活动星系核中的喷流。VI。Blazar喷流完整样本的动力学分析

MOJAVE: Monitoring of Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei with VLBA Experiments. VI. Kinematics Analysis of a Complete Sample of Blazar Jets

M. L. Lister, M. H. Cohen, D. C. Homan, M. Kadler, K. I. Kellermann, Y. Y. Kovalev, E. Ros, T. Savolainen, J. A. Zensus

摘要:

我们讨论了一个完整的通量密度有限的样本135射电响亮的活动星系核(AGN)的喷流运动学的13年计划,调查秒差距尺度喷流现象的结构和演化。我们的分析是基于2002年至2007年之间获得的新的2厘米甚长基线阵列(VLBA)图像,但包括我们以前发表的观测在同一波长,并补充VLBA存档数据。总之,我们已经使用了2424年的图像跨越1994年至2007年的研究和确定的526个单独的射流功能在127射流的运动。这个完整的活动星系核喷流样本的数据质量和时间覆盖范围(每个源的中位数为15个历元)比以前的运动学调查有了显着的进步。除了五个活动星系核外,所有活动星系核的喷流都是单侧的,很可能是差分多普勒增强的结果。一般来说,观察到的运动是沿着射流脊线,从光学厚芯特征向外。在我们的调查中,我们直接观察到三分之一采样良好的射流成分的速度和/或方向的变化。虽然在单个射流内的单独特征的表观速度中存在一些散布,但是散布比所有射流之间的速度的总体散布小大约三倍。这支持了这样一种观点,即存在描述每个射流的特征流,我们已经用观察到的最快分量速度来表征。观测到的最大速度分布在~ 10 c处达到峰值,尾部延伸到~ 50 c。这要求母体中固有洛伦兹因子的分布范围高达~50。我们还注意到,在其他快速流动的射流中存在一些罕见的低模式速度,甚至是静止特征.(节略)

英文摘要:

We discuss the jet kinematics of a complete flux-density-limited sample of 135 radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) resulting from a 13 year program to investigate the structure and evolution of parsec-scale jet phenomena. Our analysis is based on new 2 cm Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) images obtained between 2002 and 2007, but includes our previously published observations made at the same wavelength, and is supplemented by VLBA archive data. In all, we have used 2424 images spanning the years 1994-2007 to study and determine the motions of 526 separate jet features in 127 jets. The data quality and temporal coverage (a median of 15 epochs per source) of this complete AGN jet sample represents a significant advance over previous kinematics surveys. In all but five AGNs, the jets appear one-sided, most likely the result of differential Doppler boosting. In general the observed motions are directed along the jet ridge line, outward from the optically thick core feature. We directly observe changes in speed and/or direction in one third of the well-sampled jet components in our survey. While there is some spread in the apparent speeds of separate features within an individual jet, the dispersion is about three times smaller than the overall dispersion of speeds among all jets. This supports the idea that there is a characteristic flow that describes each jet, which we have characterized by the fastest observed component speed. The observed maximum speed distribution is peaked at ~10c, with a tail that extends out to ~50c. This requires a distribution of intrinsic Lorentz factors in the parent population that range up to ~50. We also note the presence of some rare low-pattern speeds or even stationary features in otherwise rapidly flowing jets... (abridged)

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