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May 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aas...200.5102t&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 200th AAS Meeting, #51.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.724
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At the center of every Active Galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole. The copious energy release from the black hole produces an extreme environment in the central parsecs. Understanding this environment is essential since it will likely have an effect on the luminosity of the AGN, jet collimation, and source evolution. With the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) we can use the powerful radio jets as probes of the environment on sub-parsec scales. Recent VLBA polarimetry observations have revealed Faraday Rotation Measures (RMs) of order 10,000 radians/m2 in the central parsecs of radio galaxies and quasars. These substantial RMs require magnetic fields in the AGN environment. Another way of probing the AGN environment is the study of spatially resolved HI and molecular absorption seen against the radio source. By studying the kinematics of the gas, constraints can be placed on the black hole mass and on the extent of the atomic and molecular torus that feeds the inner accretion disk. I will review the recent VLBA observations that have taken advantage of these new techniques to improve our understanding of the AGN environment.
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