A study of bent jets in active galactic nuclei at parsec scales

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations show that some active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets exhibit bending even at parsec scales. The nature of bending is comprehensively analysed only for a small number of individual AGN, and the overall trends in shape of the substantially curved jets...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Makeev, V A, Kovalev, Y Y, Pushkarev, A B
Format Paper Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 18.01.2023
Subjects
Active galactic nuclei
Bending
Jets
Physics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Physics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Very long base interferometry
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Summary:Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations show that some active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets exhibit bending even at parsec scales. The nature of bending is comprehensively analysed only for a small number of individual AGN, and the overall trends in shape of the substantially curved jets are unclear. In this work, we analyse outflows in AGN on the basis of publicly available multi-frequency VLBI images. Nearly 73000 images of about 11000 AGN are studied. Our research reveals that about 5% of them show a significantly curved jet structure. We characterize the jets geometry by fitting total intensity ridge lines constructed at all available frequencies and epochs with a set of simple models and suggest possible scenarios explaining the observed bending.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2301.07751