The nature of compact radio sources: the case of FR 0 radio galaxies

RD Baldi - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2023 - Springer
Radio-loud compact radio sources (CRSs) are characterised by morphological compactness
of the jet structure centred on the active nucleus of the galaxy. Most of the local elliptical …

The faint radio sky: radio astronomy becomes mainstream

P Padovani - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2016 - Springer
Radio astronomy has changed. For years it studied relatively rare sources, which emit
mostly non-thermal radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, ie radio quasars …

Mechanical feedback from active galactic nuclei in galaxies, groups and clusters

BR McNamara, PEJ Nulsen - New Journal of Physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The radiative cooling timescales at the centers of hot atmospheres surrounding elliptical
galaxies, groups and clusters are much shorter than their ages. Therefore, hot atmospheres …

Jet-launching structure resolved near the supermassive black hole in M87

SS Doeleman, VL Fish, DE Schenck, C Beaudoin… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Approximately 10% of active galactic nuclei exhibit relativistic jets, which are powered by the
accretion of matter onto supermassive black holes. Although the measured width profiles of …

The structure of the M87 jet: a transition from parabolic to conical streamlines

K Asada, M Nakamura - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The structure of the M87 jet, from milliarcsecond to arcsecond scales, is extensively
investigated, utilizing the images taken with the European VLBI Network, MERLIN, and Very …

Suzaku observations of 'bare' active galactic nuclei

DJ Walton, E Nardini, AC Fabian… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We present an X-ray spectral analysis of a large sample of 25 'bare'active galactic nuclei
(AGN), sources with little or no complicating intrinsic absorption, observed with Suzaku. Our …

Broad emission lines for a negatively spinning black hole

T Dauser, J Wilms, CS Reynolds… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We present an extended scheme for the calculation of the profiles of emission lines from
accretion discs around rotating black holes. The scheme includes discs with angular …

Measuring the spins of accreting black holes

JE McClintock, R Narayan, SW Davis… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
A typical galaxy is thought to contain tens of millions of stellar-mass black holes, the
collapsed remnants of once massive stars, and a single nuclear supermassive black hole …

Prograde and retrograde black holes: whose jet is more powerful?

A Tchekhovskoy, JC McKinney - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The outflow efficiency (η) from black hole (BH) accretion disc systems is known to depend
upon both the BH spin (a) and the amount of large-scale magnetic flux threading the BH and …

From the blazar sequence to the blazar envelope: revisiting the relativistic jet dichotomy in radio-loud active galactic nuclei

ET Meyer, G Fossati, M Georganopoulos… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We revisit the concept of a blazar sequence that relates the synchrotron peak frequency (ν
peak) in blazars with synchrotron peak luminosity (L peak, in νL ν) using a large sample of …