Tracking the moving optical photocenters of active Galaxies: Binary black holes, accretion disks and relativistic jets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4852, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 152-160

  Wehrle, A ^a,b   Unwin, S C ^b   Jones, D L ^b   Meier, D L ^b   Piner, B G ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WHITTIER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active galactic nucleus; Astrometry; Quasar; SIM; Space interferometry mission

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT VELOCITY; PHOTOMETRY; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACE TELESCOPES;

ACCRETION DISKS; ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; BINARY BLACK HOLES; OPTICAL PHOTOCENTERS; QUASARS; RELATIVISTIC JETS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 0037950636     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460869     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (20)

1. L. Ferrarese, H.C. Ford, and W. Jaffe "Evidence for a Massive Black Hole in the Active Galaxy NGC 4261 from Hubble Space Telescope Images and Spectra", Ap.J., 470, 444 1996.
2. W. Jaffe, H. Ford, L. Ferrarese, F. van den Bosch, R.W. O'Colnnell, "The Nuclear Disk of NGC 4261: Hubble Space Telescope Images and Ground-based Spectra", Ap.J., 460, 214, 1996.
3. N. I. Shakura & R.A. Sunyaev, "Black holes in binary systems. Observational appearance" A.&A. 24, 337, 1973.
4. D. E. Osterbrock & W. G. Mathews, "Emission-Line Regions of Active Galaxies and QSOs", A.R.A.A., 24, 171-203, 1986.
5. M. Eracleous, & J.P. Halpern, "Doubled-peaked emission lines in active galactic nuclei" Ap.J.S., 90, 1, 1994.
6. D. L. Band, & M.A. Malkan, "Synthesis of accretion disk and nonthermal source models for active galactic nuclei" Ap.J., 345, 122, 1989.
7. A. E. Wehrle, B.G. Piner, S. C. Unwin et al. "Kinematics of the Parsec-Scale Relativistic Jet in Quasar 3C 279: 1991-1997" Ap.J.S., 133, 297, 2001.
8. B. G. Piner, S. C. Unwin, A. E. Wehrle, A.C. Zook, C. M. Urry, & D. M. Gilmore, "The Speed and Orientation of the Parsec-Scale Jet in 3C 279", to be submitted to Ap.J. in August 2002.
9. A. S. Wilson & E. J. M. Colbert, "The difference between radio-loud and radio-quiet active galaxies", Ap.J., Ap.J., 438, 62, 1995.
10. R. D. Blandford, "Relativistic Accretion" in Astrophysical Disks, Proceedings of ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 160, ed. J. A. Sellwood and J. J. Goodman, 265, 1999.
11. D. L. Meier, "Grand unification of AGN and the accretion and spin paradigms" New Astronomy Reviews, 46, 247, 2002.
12. A. Königl, "Relativistic jets as X-ray and gamma-ray sources", Ap.J. 243, 700. 1981.
13. D. J. Hutter & S. L. Mufson, "Application of a relativistic jet model to the study of BL Lacertae objects" Ap.J., 301, 50, 1986.
14. S.C. Unwin, A.E. Wehrle, C.M. Urry, D. M. Gilmore, E. J. Barton, B. C. Kjerulf, J. A. Zensus, & C. R. Rabaca, "Inverse Compton X-ray emission from the superluminal quasar 3C 345" ApJ, 432, 103. 1994.
15. E.S. Perlman, J.A. Biretta, F. Zhou, W. B. Sparks, F. D. Macchetto, "Optical and Radio Polarimetry of the M87 Jet at 0.2″ Resolution" A.J., 117, 2185, 1999.
16. K. J. Johnston, A. Fey, D. Boboltz, R. Gaume, N. Zacharias, "Astrophysics of Reference Frame Tie Objects", SPIE Paper 4852-15, 2002.
17. J. Krolik, Active Galactic Nuclei, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1999.
18. M. Kidger, "The 11 Year Period in OJ 287 Revisited: Is It a True Long-Enduring Period?" AJ, 119, 2053, 2000.
19. A. E. Wehrle, E. Pian, C. M. Urry et al. "Multiwavelength Observations of a Dramatic High-Energy Flare in the Blazar 3C 279", ApJ 497, 178, 1998.
20. B. G. Piner & K. A. Kingham, "Geodetic VLBI Observations of EGRET Blazars" Ap.J. 507, 706, 1998.