scholarly journals Looking for the Elusive: Mining the VLA Archives for Radio Transients

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Destry Saul ◽  
Geoffrey Bower

Detecting extragalactic radio transients will provide valuable information on several astronomical phenomena. Orphan gamma-ray burst afterglows (OGRBAs) and radio supernovae detection will be important for the theories of stellar collapse while the detection of tidal flares and variable active galactic nuclei (AGN) will provide details on massive black holes and galactic centers. In this paper we present the results of a survey we conducted using archived observations from the Very Large Array (VLA). We did not detect any transients in this set of data and from this we computed an upper limit on the rate of radio transients above 400 μJansky at 0.23 transients per square degree per year. This rules out one of several theories on the rates of OGRBAs.

1989 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 639-643
Author(s):  
Ervin J. Fenyves ◽  
Stephen N. Balog ◽  
David B. Cline ◽  
M. Atac

It is generally accepted that massive black holes are the most likely source for the energy radiated from active galactic nuclei, and may explain the enormous amount of energy emitted by quasars, radio galaxies, Seyfert galaxies, and BL Lacertid objects. Although the detailed mechanisms of the black hole formation in galactic nuclei are not clear at present, it seems to be quite possible that the formation of massive black holes is a general outcome of the evolution of galactic nuclei.


2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 1360008 ◽  
Author(s):  
REMO RUFFINI ◽  
C. R. ARGÜELLES ◽  
B. M. O. FRAGA ◽  
A. GERALICO ◽  
H. QUEVEDO ◽  
...  

Current research marks a clear success in identifying the moment of formation of a Black Hole of ~ 10M⊙, with the emission of a Gamma Ray Burst. This explains in terms of the 'Blackholic Energy' the source of the energy of these astrophysical systems. Their energetics up to 1054 erg, make them detectable all over our Universe. Concurrently a new problematic has been arising related to: (a) The evidence of Dark Matter in galactic halos; (b) The origin of the Super Massive Black Holes in active galactic nuclei and Quasars and (c) The purported existence of a Black Hole in the Center of our Galaxy. These three aspects of this new problematic have been traditionally approached independently. We propose an unified approach to all three of them based on a system of massive self-gravitating neutrinos in General Relativity. Perspectives of future research are presented.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (S359) ◽  
pp. 347-349
Author(s):  
Carpes P. Hekatelyne ◽  
Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

AbstractWe present Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) Integral Field Unit (IFU), Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Very Large Array (VLA) observations of the inner kpc of the OH Megamaser galaxy IRAS 11506-3851. In this work we discuss the kinematics and excitation of the gas as well as its radio emission. The HST images reveal an isolated spiral galaxy and the combination with the GMOS-IFU flux distributions allowed us to identify a partial ring of star-forming regions surrounding the nucleus with a radius of ≍500 pc. The emission-line ratios and excitation map reveal that the region inside the ring present mixed/transition excitation between those of Starbursts and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), while regions along the ring are excited by Starbursts. We suggest that we are probing a buried or fading AGN that could be both exciting the gas and originating an outflow.


2015 ◽  
Vol 336 (10) ◽  
pp. 1013-1016 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Yu. Piotrovich ◽  
Yu. N. Gnedin ◽  
N. A. Silant'ev ◽  
T. M. Natsvlishvili ◽  
S. D. Buliga

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (A30) ◽  
pp. 78-81
Author(s):  
Kristina Nyland

AbstractEnergetic feedback by Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) plays an important evolutionary role in the regulation of star formation (SF) on galactic scales. However, the effects of this feedback as a function of redshift and galaxy properties such as mass, environment and cold gas content remain poorly understood. The broad frequency coverage (1 to 116 GHz), high collecting area (about ten times higher than the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array), and superb angular resolution (maximum baselines of at least a few hundred km) of the proposed next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) are uniquely poised to revolutionize our understanding of AGN and their role in galaxy evolution.


2015 ◽  
Vol 815 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirko Krumpe ◽  
Takamitsu Miyaji ◽  
Bernd Husemann ◽  
Nikos Fanidakis ◽  
Alison L. Coil ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (S324) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Elina Lindfors

AbstractActive galactic nuclei, hosting supermassive black holes and launching relativistic jets, are the most numerous objects on the gamma-ray sky. At the other end of the mass scale, phenomena related to stellar mass black holes, in particular gamma-ray bursts and microquasars, are also seen on the gamma-ray sky. While all of them are thought to launch relativistic jets, the diversity even within each of these classes is enormous. In this review, I will discuss recent very high energy gamma-ray results that underline both the similarity of the black hole systems, as well as their diversity.


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