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most citedA VLBA survey of the core shift effect in AGN jets I. Evidence for dominating synchrotron opacity

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43 papers

astro-ph.HE2025

Blazars as a Potential Origin of the KM3-230213A Event

The KM3NeT Collaboration

The KM3NeT collaboration has reported the detection of the highest energy neutrino event observed to date. The energy of the event is of the order of 220 PeV hinting towards a neut…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 7 cited

Revealing a ribbon-like jet in OJ 287 with RadioAstron

E. Traianou, J. L. Gomez, I. Cho +17

We present space-based very long baseline interferometry observations of the BL Lac type object OJ 287 taken with RadioAstron at 22 GHz on April 25, 2016, in conjunction with a gro…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Online Data Filter for the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescopes

O. Adriani, S. Aiello, A. Albert +279

The KM3NeT research infrastructure comprises two neutrino telescopes located in the deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea, namely ORCA and ARCA. KM3NeT/ORCA is designed for the meas…

astro-ph.HE2025

Characterizing Candidate Blazar Counterparts of the Ultra-High-Energy Event KM3-230213A

KM3NeT Collaboration, MessMapp Group, LAT Collaboration +13

High-energy astrophysical neutrinos serve as crucial messengers for understanding hadronic acceleration processes and identifying the origins of cosmic rays, with blazars among the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Parsec-scale evolution of the gigahertz-peaked spectrum quasar PKS 0858-279

N. A. Kosogorov, Y. Y. Kovalev, M. Perucho +1

We conducted multi-epoch, multi-frequency parsec-scale studies on the gigahertz-peaked spectrum quasar PKS 0858-279 with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Our observations on 20…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

Multi-band Cross-correlated Radio Variability of the Blazar 3C 279

Krishna Mohana A, Alok C. Gupta, Alan P. Marscher +18

We present the results of our study of cross-correlations between long-term multi-band observations of the radio variability of the blazar 3C 279. More than a decade (2008-2022) of…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 51 cited

Filamentary structures as the origin of blazar jet radio variability

Antonio Fuentes, José L. Gómez, José M. Martí +22

Supermassive black holes at the centre of active galactic nuclei power some of the most luminous objects in the Universe. Typically, very long baseline interferometric (VLBI) obser…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 7 cited

Probing neutrino production in blazars by millimeter VLBI

Y. Y. Kovalev, A. V. Plavin, A. B. Pushkarev +1

The advancement of neutrino observatories has sparked a surge in multi-messenger astronomy. Multiple neutrino associations among blazars are reported while neutrino production site…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 43 cited

Properties of the jet in M87 revealed by its helical structure imaged with the VLBA at 8 and 15 GHz

A. S. Nikonov, Y. Y. Kovalev, E. V. Kravchenko +2

We present full-track high-resolution radio observations of the jet of the galaxy M87 at 8 and 15 GHz. These observations were taken over three consecutive days in May 2009 using t…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 134 cited

Key Science Goals for the Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope

Michael D. Johnson, Kazunori Akiyama, Lindy Blackburn +42

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has led to the first images of a supermassive black hole, revealing the central compact objects in the elliptical galaxy M87 and the Milky Way. Pr…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 22 cited

RadioAstron Space VLBI Imaging of the jet in M87: I. Detection of high brightness temperature at 22 GHz

Jae-Young Kim, Tuomas Savolainen, Petr Voitsik +19

We present results from the first 22 GHz space very-long-baseline interferometric (VLBI) imaging observations of M87 by RadioAstron. As a part of the Nearby AGN Key Science Program…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 10 cited

MOJAVE XXI. Decade-long linear polarization variability in AGN jets at parsec scales

D. I. Zobnina, H. D. Aller, M. F. Aller +6

Using stacking of images obtained at different epochs, we studied the variability properties of linear polarization of active galactic nucleus (AGN) jets on parsec-scales. Our samp…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 57 cited

Growing evidence for high-energy neutrinos originating in radio blazars

A. V. Plavin, Y. Y. Kovalev, Y. A. Kovalev +1

Evidence for bright radio blazars being high-energy neutrino sources was found in recent years. However, specifics of how and where these particles get produced still need to be de…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 38 cited

MOJAVE. XX. Persistent Linear Polarization Structure in Parsec-scale AGN Jets

A. B. Pushkarev, M. F. Aller, H. D. Aller +6

We analysed the parsec-scale linear polarization properties of 436 active galactic nuclei (AGN) based on 15 GHz polarimetric Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations. We presen…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 29 cited

Unravelling the Innermost Jet Structure of OJ 287 with the First GMVA+ALMA Observations

Guang-Yao Zhao, Jose L. Gomez, Antonio Fuentes +33

We present the first very-long-baseline interferometric (VLBI) observations of the blazar OJ287 carried out jointly with the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA) and the phased Atac…

astro-ph.IM2022

The science case and challenges of space-borne sub-millimeter interferometry

Leonid I. Gurvits, Zsolt Paragi, Ricardo I. Amils +51

Ultra-high angular resolution in astronomy has always been an important vehicle for making fundamental discoveries. Recent results in direct imaging of the vicinity of the supermas…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 22 cited

Direction of Parsec-Scales Jets for 9220 Active Galactic Nuclei

A. V. Plavin, Y. Y. Kovalev, A. B. Pushkarev

The direction of parsec-scale jets in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is essential information for many astrophysical and astrometric studies, including linear polarization and magne…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 20 cited

Tracing Milky Way scattering by compact extragalactic radio sources

T. A. Koryukova, A. B. Pushkarev, A. V. Plavin +1

We used archival very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data of active galactic nuclei (AGN) observed from 1.4 GHz to 86 GHz to measure the angular size of VLBI radio cores in 89…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

First Space-VLBI Observations of Sagittarius A*

Michael D. Johnson, Yuri Y. Kovalev, Mikhail M. Lisakov +3

We report results from the first Earth-space VLBI observations of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole, Sgr A*. These observations used the space telescope Spektr-R of the R…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 102 cited

MOJAVE XIX: Brightness Temperatures and Intrinsic Properties of Blazar Jets

D. C. Homan, M. H. Cohen, T. Hovatta +7

We present multi-epoch, parsec-scale core brightness temperature observations of 447 AGN jets from the MOJAVE and 2cm Survey programs at 15 GHz from 1994 to 2019. The brightness te…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 113 cited

MOJAVE: XVIII. Kinematics and Inner Jet Evolution of Bright Radio-Loud Active Galaxies

M. L. Lister, D. C. Homan, K. I. Kellermann +4

We have analyzed the parsec-scale jet kinematics of 447 bright radio-loud AGN, based on 15 GHz VLBA data obtained between 1994 August 31 and 2019 August 4. We present new total int…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 111 cited

Polarimetric properties of Event Horizon Telescope targets from ALMA

Ciriaco Goddi, Ivan Marti-Vidal, Hugo Messias +31

We present the results from a full polarization study carried out with ALMA during the first VLBI campaign, which was conducted in Apr 2017 in the 3mm and 1.3mm bands, in con…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 12 cited

Parsec-scale properties of the peculiar gigahertz-peaked spectrum quasar 0858-279

N. A. Kosogorov, Y. Y. Kovalev, M. Perucho +1

We performed multi-frequency studies on the gigahertz-peaked spectrum high-redshift quasar 0858-279. Initially, the source presented itself in the early VLBI images as a very pecul…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 26 cited

Optical polarization properties of AGN with significant VLBI-Gaia offsets

Y. Y. Kovalev, D. I. Zobnina, A. V. Plavin +1

Significant positional offsets of the value from 1 mas to more than 10 mas were found previously between radio (VLBI) and optical (Gaia) positions of active galactic nuclei (AGN).…