5 Years of VLBI and X-Ray Observations of NRAO 140
Abstract
The author and his collaborators have observed NRAO 140 twice at X-ray energies and numerous times with multifrequency VLBI. The VLBI observations reveal a knotty jet structure with superluminal motion of the innermost two knots relative to the core. The VLBI core decreased by about a factor of 2 in flux density between 1980 and late 1984. The X-ray flux also declined by about the same factor during this period. Monitoring at 18 cm during periods of low-frequency variability has revealed pronounced changes in the relative brightnesses of the components of the source while the total flux density has varied by less than about 10 percent.
- Publication:
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The Impact of VLBI on Astrophysics and Geophysics
- Pub Date:
- 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988IAUS..129...35M
- Keywords:
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- Quasars;
- Very Long Base Interferometry;
- X Ray Astronomy;
- X Ray Sources;
- Compton Effect;
- Molecular Clouds;
- Relativistic Effects;
- Variability;
- X Ray Spectra