Proposal code

w033

Proposal title

Monitoring of the BL Lac object OJ287

The

Investigators and their

Affiliations

P.I. Patrick Charlot Bordeaux Observatory, France
Hélène Sol Meudon Observatory, France

Proposal Abstract

Our proposal consists in a monitoring program of observations of the BL Lac object OJ287 at 5 GHz (experiment 1), supplemented by a single epoch observation of OJ287 at 1.6 GHz (experiment 2). It is the continuation of the AO1 proposal v078, which is scheduled for late 1998 and early 1999. The major goal of the monitoring observations is to confirm the helical path of the jet which we suspect based on intensive monitoring with 8.4 GHz geodetic VLBI data and more recently with multi-frequency VLBA data. The 1.6 GHz observation is designed to determine the spectral index along the jet.

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