Stellar mass loading drives dissipation and reacceleration in AGN jets: Explaining VLBI-Gaia offsets and constraining jet power

G. Fichet de Clairfontaine, M. Perucho, J. M. Martí +1

Recent Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and Gaia astrometry reveal systematic milliarcsecond-scale offsets between the radio and optical centroids of active galactic nuclei…