Intermediate Scale Structures in BL Lac objects

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2004-12-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0412296v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages. 9 figures. Proceedings of the 7th European VLBI Network Symposium held in Toledo, Spain on October 12-15, 2004. Edito

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The parsec-scale total intensity structures of BL Lac objects share many characteristics with quasars: e.g. well-collimated jets and superluminal motion. However, the jets of BL Lac objects appear to fade much more quickly than those in quasars and on VLA scales many BL Lacs have structures comparable to those of low luminosity (FR I) radio galaxies, in which kpc-scale flow speeds are non-relativistic. The region between parsec and kiloparsec scales is therefore one of transition in BL Lac objects. We have carried out VLBI observations of a small sample of BL Lac objects at frequencies between 2.3 GHz and 327 MHz in order to investigate this transition region. Preliminary results for two of these sources are presented here. Coherent structures are detected in these sources out to a distance of several tens of parsecs. We find evidence for significant changes in jet structure on scales of a few tens of milliarcseconds, both in terms of the orientation and collimation of the jets.

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