2003/09/15 by M. L. Lister, Lister, M. L.
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #Magnetic confinement fusion research #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0309413
5 pages, 3 figures. To appear in ASP Conference Series Volume "Future Directions in High Resolution Astronomy: A Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the VLBA", held June 8 - 12, 2003, in Socorro, New Mexico, USA
arxiv created 2003/09/15 · openalex publication_date 2003/09/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We discuss a new VLBA program to investigate structural and polarization changes in the brightest AGN jets in the northern sky. Our study represents a significant improvement over previous surveys in terms of image fidelity, size, and completeness, and will serve to characterize the kinematics of AGN jets and determine how these are related to other source properties. We discuss several preliminary results from our program, including the detection of parsec-scale circularly polarized jet emission, enhanced magnetic field ordering at the sites of apparent bends, and intrinsic differences in the jets of strong- and weak-lined AGN.