Relativistic jets in the RRFID database. II. 10yr Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Piner B.G.
  2. Pushkarev A.B.
  3. Kovalev Y.Y.
  4. Marvin C.J.
  5. Arenson J.G.,Charlot P.
  6. Fey A.L.
  7. Collioud A.
  8. Voitsik P.A.
  9. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We analyze blazar jet apparent speeds and accelerations from the RDV series of astrometric and geodetic very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) experiments. From these experiments, we have produced and analyzed 2753 global VLBI images of 68 sources at 8GHz with a median beam size of 0.9 milliarcseconds (mas) and a median of 43 epochs per source. From this sample, we analyze the motions of 225 jet components in 66 sources. The distribution of the fastest measured apparent speed in each source has a median of 8.3c and a maximum of 44c. Sources in the 2FGL Fermi LAT catalog display higher apparent speeds than those that have not been detected. On average, components farther from the core in a given source have significantly higher apparent speeds than components closer to the core; for example, for a typical source, components at ~3mas from the core (~15pc projected at z~0.5) have apparent speeds about 50% higher than those of components at ~1mas from the core (~5pc projected at z~0.5). We measure accelerations of components in orthogonal directions parallel and perpendicular to their average velocity vector. Parallel accelerations have significantly larger magnitudes than perpendicular accelerations, implying that observed accelerations are predominantly due to changes in the Lorentz factor (bulk or pattern) rather than projection effects from jet bending. Positive parallel accelerations are significantly more common than negative ones, so the Lorentz factor (bulk or pattern) tends to increase on the scales observed here. Observed parallel accelerations correspond to modest source frame increases in the bulk or pattern Lorentz factor.

Keywords
  1. active-galactic-nuclei
  2. radio-continuum-emission
  3. quasars
  4. bl-lacertae-objects
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2012ApJ...758...84P
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2014-08-07T11:42:50Z
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