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RadioAstron早期科学计划空间-VLBI AGN调查:策略和初步结果

RadioAstron Early Science Program Space-VLBI AGN survey: strategy and first results

Kirill V. Sokolovsky

摘要:

RadioAstron是一个使用专用SPEKTR-R航天器上的10米天线的项目,该航天器于2011年7月18日发射,用于从空间进行甚长基线干涉测量-空间VLBI。我们描述了这一战略,并强调了一些更明亮的射电大声活动星系核(AGN)在基线高达25个地球直径(D_E)的92/18/6/1.35厘米条纹调查的第一批结果。巡天的目标包括寻找极端亮温以解决多普勒因子危机和限制活动星系核射电发射的可能机制,研究活动星系核射电喷流中最致密特征的观测尺寸分布(以及对它们的内在结构和我们银河系中散射星际介质的性质的影响),并选择有希望的天体进行详细的后续观测,包括空间VLBI成像。我们的调查目标的选择是基于相关的能见度测量结果在最长的地面-地面基线从以前的VLBI调查。射电天文台目前的长基线条纹探测包括OJ 287(10 D_E,18 cm),BL Lac(10 D_E,6 cm)和B 0748 +126(4.3 D_E,1.3 cm)。在10 D_E处的18和6 cm波段条纹探测表明,T_b ~ 10^13 K的亮度温度比均分逆康普顿极限高两个数量级。这些高的T_b值可能表明射流速度通常高于射流模式速度。

英文摘要:

RadioAstron is a project to use the 10m antenna on board the dedicated SPEKTR-R spacecraft, launched on 2011 July 18, to perform Very Long Baseline Interferometry from space - Space-VLBI. We describe the strategy and highlight the first results of a 92/18/6/1.35cm fringe survey of some of the brighter radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at baselines up to 25 Earth diameters (D_E). The survey goals include a search for extreme brightness temperatures to resolve the Doppler factor crisis and to constrain possible mechanisms of AGN radio emission, studying the observed size distribution of the most compact features in AGN radio jets (with implications for their intrinsic structure and the properties of the scattering interstellar medium in our Galaxy) and selecting promising objects for detailed follow-up observations, including Space-VLBI imaging. Our survey target selection is based on the results of correlated visibility measurements at the longest ground-ground baselines from previous VLBI surveys. The current long-baseline fringe detections with RadioAstron include OJ 287 at 10 D_E (18cm), BL Lac at 10 D_E (6cm) and B0748+126 at 4.3 D_E (1.3 cm). The 18 and 6cm-band fringe detections at 10 D_E imply brightness temperatures of T_b ~ 10^13 K, about two orders of magnitude above the equipartition inverse Compton limit. These high values of T_b might indicate that the jet flow speed is often higher than the jet pattern speed.

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