PIRSA:14110083

New Results from Global Millimeter VLBI observations – How small an AGN can be?

Krichbaum, T. (2014). New Results from Global Millimeter VLBI observations – How small an AGN can be?. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/14110083

Krichbaum, Thomas. New Results from Global Millimeter VLBI observations – How small an AGN can be?. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 11, 2014, https://pirsa.org/14110083 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:14110083,
            doi = {10.48660/14110083},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/14110083},
            author = {Krichbaum, Thomas},
            keywords = {Strong Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {New Results from Global Millimeter VLBI observations {\textendash} How small an AGN can be?},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2014},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:14110083 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Thomas Krichbaum Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

DOI 10.48660/14110083
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Abstract

VLBI observations at the highest possible frequency penetrate the opacity barrier in the nuclear regions of radio-galaxies and blazars, which are synchrotron self-absorbed at longer wavelength. This facilitates a direct and sharper than ever view into the 'heart' of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), into region in which BH physics and general relativity effects become important and where radio jets are launched. Here we report on new results from global 3mm and 1.3mm VLBI observations adding the APEX and IRAM to the Event Horizon Telescope. New images and core size estimates for a number of AGN jets and for Sgr A* are presented and discussed.