Monthly 43 GHz vlba polarimetric monitoring of 3C 120 over 16 epochs: Evidence for trailing shocks in a relativistic jet

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 561, Issue 2 PART II, 2001, Pages

  Gómez, José Luis ^a   Marscher, Alan P ^b   Alberdi, Antonio ^a   Jorstad, Svetlana G ^b   Agudo, Ivan ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: Active; Galaxies: Individual (3C 120); Galaxies: Jets; Polarization radio continuum: Galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043134897     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/324759     Document Type: Article

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