MOJAVE: Monitoring of Jets in AGN with VLBA Experiments. III. Deep VLA Images at 1.4 GHz

Abstract

The MOJAVE blazar sample consists of the 133 brightest, most compact radio-loud AGN in the northern sky, and is selected on the basis of VLBA 2 cm correlated flux density exceeding 1.5 Jy (2 Jy for declinations south of 0 degrees) at any epoch between 1994 and 2003. Since 1994 we have been gathering VLBA data on the sample to measure superluminal jet speeds and to better understand the parsec-scale kinematics of AGN jets. We have obtained 1.4 GHz VLA-A configuration data on 57 of these sources to investigate whether the extended luminosity of blazars is correlated with parsec-scale jet speed, and also to determine what other parsec-scale properties are related to extended morphology, such as optical emission line strength and gamma$ray emission. We present images and measurements of the kilo-parsec scale emission from the VLA data, which will be used in subsequent statistical studies of the MOJAVE sample.

arXiv comment20 pages, 2 tables, 3 figures, revised, accepted The Astrophysical Journal Supplement

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