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May 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21630402c&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #216, #304.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.851
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Blazars are the most rare and extreme class of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN); they exhibit high variability, superluminal motion, and are highly luminous. These interesting blazar properties are the result of relativistic Doppler boosting on the parsec scale, which obscures their intrinsic properties. My dissertation is part of the MOJAVE program, and seeks to correlate Doppler boosted parsec-scale properties with kiloparsec scale extended jet structure which is not Doppler boosted and correlated with intrinsic jet power. The MOJAVE blazar sample consists of the 135 brightest, most compact radio-loud AGNs in the northern sky, and it is selected on the basis of VLBA 2 cm correlated flux density exceeding 1.5 Jy (2 Jy south of 0 deg.) at any epoch between 1994.0 and 2004.0. Since 1994 we have been gathering VLBA data on the sample to measure superluminal jet speeds and to better understand the parsec-scale kinematics of AGN jets. My project uses a complete VLA 20 cm A configuration survey using data obtained by the MOJAVE team and from the NRAO archive. I will discuss data collection, imaging, the effect of limited sensitivity and the high variability on imaging kiloparsec scale extended emission, and correlations between blazar extended emission and other blazar properties, such as Fermi LAT 1FGL luminosities.
Cooper Nathaniel J.
Kadler Matthias
Lister Matthew L.
Mojave Collaboration
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