Proposal code

v010

Proposal title

Comparison of Observed and Simulated Relativistic Jets

The

Investigators and their

Affiliations

P.I. Alan P. Marscher Boston University
José-Luis Gómez Boston University

Proposal Abstract

We propose to observe several sources with VSOP in order to obtain images at 5 and 22 GHz of compact relativistic jets with sufficient resolution to compare with images of artificial jets generated using artifical images derived from numerical relativistic hydrodynamical calculations. We propose to observe some of the sources at several epochs in order to compare the time-dependent behavior of the observed jets with that of the simulated jets. Only with space VLBI is the resolution sufficiently high to resolve the oblique shocks, rarefactions, and other features seen in the numerical simulations.

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