Proposal code

w067

Proposal title

Compact, beamed emission from the hotspots in blazars.

The

Investigators and their

Affiliations

P.I. A.P. Lobanov MPIfR, Germany
S.E. Aaron MPIfR/JIVE, Germany
R. Ojha CfA, USA

Proposal Abstract

We propose to perform 1.6 GHz VSOP observations of the hotspots in 4 blazar--type AGN, using their compact VLBI cores as phase--reference sources. The selected hotspots are all situated within a few arcseconds from the respective VLBI cores. The proposed observations will allow to place tighter limits on compactness of the hotspot emission, and help understanding the role of ultra--relativistic plasma in formation and evolution of large--scale extragalactic jets.

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