Polarimetric observations of 15 active galactic nuclei at high frequencies: Jet kinematics from bimonthly monitoring with the very long baseline array

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1418-1465

  Jorstad, Svetlana G ^a,b   Marscher, Alan P ^a   Lister, Matthew L ^c   Stirling, Alastair M ^d,e   Cawthorne, Timothy V ^d   Gear, Walter K ^f   Gómez, José L ^g   Stevens, Jason A ^h   Smith, Paul S ⁱ   Forster, James R ^j   Robson, E Ian ^h  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^h UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

BL Lacertae objects: individual (3C 66A, OJ 287, 1803+784, 1823+568, BL Lacertae); Galaxies: active; Galaxies: individual (3C 111, 3C 120); Galaxies: jets; Quasars: individual (0420 014, 0528+134, 3C 273, 3C 279, PKS 1510 089, 3C 345, CTA 102, 3C 454.3)

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744544477     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/444593     Document Type: Article

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