MOJAVE: Monitoring of Jets in AGN with VLBA Experiments - I. First-Epoch 15 GHz Linear Polarization Images
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We present first-epoch, milliarcsecond-scale linear polarization images at 15 GHz of 133 jets associated with AGN in the MOJAVE survey (Monitoring of Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei with VLBA Experiments). The sample consists of all known AGN with galactic latitude |b| > 2.5 deg., J2000 declination > -20 deg., and 15 GHz VLBA flux density exceeding 1.5 Jy (2 Jy for sources with declination 50%) and electric vectors aligned with the jet ridge line, consistent with optically thin emission from transverse shocks. Both weak- and strong-lined blazars show a general increase in fractional polarization with distance down the jet, but BL Lac jets are generally more polarized and have electric vectors preferentially aligned with the local jet direction. We show that these differences are intrinsic to the jets, and not due to sample bias. Distinct features in the jets of gamma-ray loud (EGRET) blazars are typically twice as luminous as those in non-EGRET blazars, and are more polarized. These differences can be adequately explained if EGRET blazars have slightly higher Doppler boosting factors than those not yet detected in gamma-rays.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Multiwaveband Polarimetric Observations of 15 Active Galactic Nuclei at High Frequencies: Correlated Polarization Behavior (2007, methodology): “…of the IVP and HVP sources is similar to the difference between the distributions of core electric vector offsets from the jet direction found by Lister & Homan (2005) for BL Lac objects and quasars, respectively, in the MOJAVE survey at 2 cm (Monitoring of Jets in AGN with VLBA Experiments).”