76 research outputs found
The Point of Origin of the Radio Radiation from the Unresolved Cores of Radio-Loud Quasars
Locating the exact point of origin of the core radiation in active galactic
nuclei (AGN) would represent important progress in our understanding of
physical processes in the central engine of these objects. However, due to our
inability to resolve the region containing both the central compact object and
the jet base, this has so far been difficult. Here, using an analysis in which
the lack of resolution does not play a significant role, we demonstrate that it
may be impossible even in most radio loud sources for more than a small
percentage of the core radiation at radio wavelengths to come from the jet
base. We find for 3C279 that percent of the core flux at 15 GHz must
come from a separate, reasonably stable, region that is not part of the jet
base, and that then likely radiates at least quasi-isotropically and is
centered on the black hole. The long-term stability of this component also
suggests that it may originate in a region that extends over many Schwarzschild
radii.Comment: 7 pages with 3 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysics and
Space Scienc
Cash by any other name? Evidence on labeling from the UK Winter Fuel Payment
Government transfers to individuals are often given labels indicating that they are designed to support the consumption of particular goods. Standard economic theory implies that the labeling of cash transfers or cash-equivalents should have no effect on spending patterns. We study the UK Winter Fuel Payment, a cash transfer to older households. Our empirical strategy nests a regression discontinuity design within an Engel curve framework. We find robust evidence of a behavioral effect of labeling. On average households spend 47% of the WFP on fuel. If the payment were treated as cash, we would expect households to spend 3% of the payment on fuel. © 2014 Elsevier B.V
Probing the non-thermal emission in the Perseus cluster with the JVLA
Large scale structure and cosmolog
The lifecycle of powerful AGN outflows
During the course of this conference, much evidence was presented that points
to an intimate connection between the energetic outflows driven by AGN and the
energy budget and quite possibly also the evolution of their gaseous
environments. However, it is still not clear if and how the AGN activity is
triggered by the cooling gas, how long the activity lasts for and how these
effects give rise to the observed distribution of morphologies of the outflows.
In this contribution we concentrate on the high radio luminosity end of the AGN
population. While most of the heating of the environmental gas may be due to
less luminous and energetic outflows, these more powerful objects have a very
profound influence on their surroundings. We will describe a simple model for
powerful radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars that explains the dichotomy of
their large-scale radio morphologies as well as their radio luminosity
function.Comment: 6 pages, contribution to 'Heating vs. coooling in galaxies and galaxy
clusters', Garching 2006, proceedings to be published by Springer (ESO
Astrophysics Symposia), eds. H. Boehringer, P. Schuecker, G.W. Pratt & A.
Finogueno
Simvastatin treatment reduces the cholesterol content of membrane/lipid rafts, implicating the N -methyl-D-aspartate receptor in anxiety: a literature review
ABSTRACT Membrane/lipid rafts (MLRs) are plasmalemmal microdomains that are essential for neuronal signaling and synaptic development/stabilization. Inhibitors of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme-A reductase (statins) can disable the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor through disruption of MLRs and, in turn, decrease NMDA-mediated anxiety. This hypothesis will contribute to understanding the critical roles of simvastatin in treating anxiety via the NMDA receptor
The polarized image of a synchrotron-emitting ring of gas orbiting a black hole
High Energy Astrophysic
Constraints on black-hole charges with the 2017 EHT observations of M87*
InstrumentationHigh Energy Astrophysic
The variability of the black hole image in M87 at the dynamical timescale
The black hole images obtained with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are expected to be variable at the dynamical timescale near their horizons. For the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, this timescale (5–61 days) is comparable to the 6 day extent of the 2017 EHT observations. Closure phases along baseline triangles are robust interferometric observables that are sensitive to the expected structural changes of the images but are free of station-based atmospheric and instrumental errors. We explored the day-to-day variability in closure-phase measurements on all six linearly independent nontrivial baseline triangles that can be formed from the 2017 observations. We showed that three triangles exhibit very low day-to-day variability, with a dispersion of ∼3°–5°. The only triangles that exhibit substantially higher variability (∼90°–180°) are the ones with baselines that cross the visibility amplitude minima on the u–v plane, as expected from theoretical modeling. We used two sets of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations to explore the dependence of the predicted variability on various black hole and accretion-flow parameters. We found that changing the magnetic field configuration, electron temperature model, or black hole spin has a marginal effect on the model consistency with the observed level of variability. On the other hand, the most discriminating image characteristic of models is the fractional width of the bright ring of emission. Models that best reproduce the observed small level of variability are characterized by thin ring-like images with structures dominated by gravitational lensing effects and thus least affected by turbulence in the accreting plasmas.https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac332e/pdfPublished versio
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