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On the Nature of Radio Emission of AGNs: Spectra, Milli-arcsecond Structure and Polarization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Yu.A. Kovalev
Affiliation:
Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow, 117810 Russia
Y.Y. Kovalev
Affiliation:
Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow, 117810 Russia

Abstract

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The main observational properties of AGNs at centimeter-decimeter wavelengths –- spectra, variability on various time scales, polarization and milli-arcsecond maps –- are in agreement with calculations in a jet model with a strong quasi radial magnetic field. Typical spectra and VLBI structures can be explained by a simple case of a straight line jet, unlike the degree of the linear polarization. Curved jets in the model allow decreasing the polarization to observational values as well.

Type
I. Observational Properties of AGN
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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