G. Giovannini, C. Casadio, M. Giroletti, M. Beilicke, A. Cesarini, H. Krawczynski
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Proceedings of the Workshop "Fermi meets Jansky - AGN in Radio and Gamma-Rays", Savolainen, T., Ros, E., Porcas, R.W. & Zensus, J.A. (eds.), MPIfR, Bonn, June 21-23 2010. 4 pages 4 figures
One of the most intriguing open questions of today's astrophysics is the one concerning the location and the mechanisms for the production of MeV, GeV, and TeV gamma-rays in AGN jets. M87 is a privileged laboratory for a detailed study of the properties of jets, owing to its proximity, its massive black hole, and its conspicuous emission at radio wavelengths and above. We started on November 2009 a monitoring program with the e-EVN at 5 GHz, during which two episodes of activity at energy E > 100 GeV have occured. We present here results of these multi-epoch observations. The inner jet and HST-1 are both detected and resolved in our datasets. One of these observations was obtained at the same day of the first high energy flare. A clear change in the proper motion velocity of HST-1 is present at the epoch ~2005.5. In the time range 2003 -- 2005.5 the apparent velocity is subluminal, and superluminal (~ 2.7c) after 2005.5.
The evolution of a jet ejection of the ultraluminous X-ray source Holmberg II X-1
利用欧洲VLBI观测网(EVN)、Karl G. Jansky甚大阵列(VLA),以及钱德拉和斯威夫特X射线望远镜。X射线数据显示出明显的硬谱,其稳定的X射线光度彼此相隔4个月。在高分辨率EVN射电观测中,我们探测到了一个毫角秒尺度的扩展源。该源发出非热,可能光学薄同步辐射和其形态是一致的喷射喷射。9-GHz的VLA数据显示了Holmberg II X-1的一个角秒尺度的三重结构,类似于在较低频率下看到的结构。然而,我们发现中央喷射在1.5年内至少消退了7.3倍。我们估计的动力学年龄的喷射要高于2.1年。我们表明,这种快速冷却可以用简单的绝热膨胀损失来解释。Holmberg II X-1的这些性质意味着ULX射电泡可能是由喷出物而不是自吸收的致密喷流膨胀的。
Megahertz peaked-spectrum (MPS) sources have spectra that peak at frequencies below 1 GHz in the observer's frame and are believed to be radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN). We recently presented a new method to search for high-redshift AGN by identifying unusually compact MPS sources. In this paper, we present European VLBI Network (EVN) observations of 11 MPS sources which we use to determine their sizes and investigate the nature of the sources with ~10 mas resolution. Of the 11 sources, we detect nine with the EVN. Combining the EVN observations with spectral and redshift information, …