A VLBA survey of the core shift effect in AGN jets: I. Evidence of dominating synchrotron opacity

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 532, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sokolovsky, K V ^a,b   Kovalev, Y Y ^a,b   Pushkarev, A B ^a,c,d   Lobanov, A P ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^d CRIMEAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: jets; Quasars: general; Radio continuum: general

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT MEDIUM; EQUIPARTITION; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; FREQUENCY RANGES; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; GALAXIES : ACTIVE; GALAXIES: JETS; GHZ FREQUENCIES; LONG BASELINE ARRAY; MEDIAN VALUE; POWER LAW INDEX; PRE-SELECTED; QUASARS: GENERAL; RADIO CONTINUUM: GENERAL; SYSTEMATIC DEVIATION;

GALAXIES; SURVEYS;

SYNCHROTRONS;

EID: 79960493603     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201016072     Document Type: Review

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