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INVESTIGATING PLASMA-PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF JETS IN NEARBY RADIO-BRIGHT AGN WITH KVN AND KaVA

  • KIM, JAE-YOUNG (Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • TRIPPE, SASCHA (Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • SOHN, BONG WON (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • OH, JUNGHWAN (Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • PARK, JONG-HO (Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • LEE, SANG-SUNG (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • LEE, TAESEOK (Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University)
  • Received : 2014.11.30
  • Accepted : 2015.06.30
  • Published : 2015.09.30
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Abstract

In this paper we introduce the Plasma Physics of Active Galactic Nuclei project, which is an ongoing experiment with Korean VLBI Network (KVN) and KVN and VERA Array (KaVA) to study multi-frequency polarimetric properties on parsec scales of active galaxies. The goal of the project is to improve our understanding of fundamental jet physics, especially evolution of the relativistic outflow coupled with the large-scale magnetic field. We selected six radio-loud AGN as our targets. So far we (i) detected resolved emissions regions at 86 and 129 GHz on VLBI scales, (ii) constructed 2D spectral index maps of the outflows, and (iii) found polarizations at 22 and 43 GHz for a few targets. Here we present spectral index distributions of 3C 120 between 22 and 43 GHz and a linear polarization map of BL Lac at 43 GHz obtained with KVN.

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