Proposal code

w060

Proposal title

VSOP Imaging of Southern High Brightness Temperature AGN

The

Investigators and their

Affiliations

P.I. J. Lovell ISAS, Japan
P. Edwards ISAS, Japan
D. Jauncey, J. Reynolds, A. Tzioumis, E. King ATNF, Australia
R. Preston, S. Tingay, D. Murphy JPL, USA
D. Meier, D. Jones JPL, USA
P. Mc Culloch University of Tasmania, Australia

Proposal Abstract

We propose a two-epoch 5 GHz VSOP monitoring program of four Southern Hemisphere AGN to measure the brightness temperatures of their cores and to monitor the motion of their jet components and to compare the Doppler factors inferred from both measurements. All sources possess unresolved cores on ground VLBI baselines, show milliarcsecond jet components and display variability on timescales much less than 1 year. All this evidence indicates that these sources possess high Doppler factors, making them excellent targets for VSOP observations.

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