活动星系致密核视角大小的统计研究

本对ＶＬＢＩ观测得到的河外射电源致密核ｃｏｒｅ的视角大小进行了统计研究，发现对单个源平均上视角大小近似反比于观测频率，与目前的模型相一致。在５ＧＨｚ上，在红移范围０．０４＜ｚ＜２．５内，平均的ｃｏｒｅ视角大小近似为常数，在非均匀喷流模型框架下，一种可能的解释是在河外射电源致密结构中磁场存在着演化。     

活动星系致密核的研究

本文对几个大样本ＶＬＢＩ观测的致密核（ｃｏｒｅ） 进行了统计研究,包括核的谱指数, 核的角大小随ＶＬＢＩ观测频率的变化,核角大小与致密喷流角大小的关系以及核角大小随红移的变化,并在非均匀喷流模型下估算了喷流中磁场和相对论性电子密度的分布。     

南天区20个河外射电源的VLBI研究

本文报道南天区5GHzVLBI普查式观测结果．首次观测是在1992年11月期间进行的，共观测了23个河外射电源，获得了20个河外射电源的VLBI高分辨率的射电图象．有15个射电源呈现核喷流结构，1个有双向喷流，3个未分解，末发现有致密观源．在16个核喷流（包括一个双向喷流源）源中有11个呈现弯曲喷流现象．此外还首次发现有3个源中可能有超光速运动现象．     

南天区20个河外射电源的VLBI研究

本报道南天区５ＧＨｚ普查式观测结果，首次观测是在１９９２年１１月期间进行的，共观测２３个河外射电源，获得了２０个河外射电源的ＶＬＢＩ高分辨率的射电图象，有１５个射电源呈现核喷流结构，１个有双向喷流，３个未分解，未发现有致密双源，在１６个核喷流（包括一个双向喷流源）源中有１１个呈现弯曲喷流现象。此外还首次发现了３个源中可能有超光速运动现象。     

双成分星际介质的折射闪烁

本文用比较严格的理论讨论了由连续介质和散射薄屏组成的星际介质对河外射电源的折射闪烁．对折射闪烁引起的流量变化的结构函数Ｄ（τ）（τ为迟后时间）的计算表明，结构函数的幂律部份的指数Ｐ（Ｄ（τ）（∝τＰ）依赖于上述两个成份的相对散射强度，即在连续介质散射为主的情况下；而在薄屏散射为主的情况下；若两个成份的散射可相比较时，１＜Ｐ＜２．因此本模型可以用于解释在河外射电源和脉冲星中观测到的折射闪烁的结构函数具有不同幂指数的情形，特别是Ｐ～１．５的情形．     

河外射电变源与致密源

本文对河外射电变源和致密源的观测特征以及理论模型进行了评述。本文分为两部分。第一部分包括仪器及观测方法、样品选择及资料分析,射电源的频谱特征和时变性质等。 本文的第二部分简述了理论研究和模型工作。其中包括对于在河外射电源中观测到的射电频谱及视超光速运动等现象的理论解释。和其它模型比较起来,Rees模型比较好,它可以很好地解释观测特性。     

河外射电源的低频研究进展

本文中我们对河外射电源的低频研究的进展作一综述,内容包括:1.低频观测技术(行星际闪烁,月掩源技术,低频综合孔径和低频甚长基线干涉仪);2.河外射电源的低频结构(展瓣结构,致密源结构和低频变源)。     

南天区耀变体的VLBI研究

本文报道南天区５ＧＨｚＶＬＢＩ的第二轮观测．第二轮观测是在１９９３年５月期间进行的，共观测了２５个射电源，检测到２４个源，获得了２３个南天区耀变体（Ｂｌａｚａｒ）的ＶＬＢＩ高分辨率的图象，其中１５个是第一次ＶＬＢＩ成图，７个是高能（＞１００ＭｅＶ）γ射电源，１２个源呈现核－喷流结构，其余１１个源是单一的致密核，未发现致密双源．有两个源可能有视超光速现象．     

高频VLBI观测射电源的结构

高频VLBI观测揭示出河外射电源在pc或者亚pc尺度上大都有核-喷流的内部结构，尤其是对平谱致密射电源中毫角秒尺度的子源，能以相当高的概率观测到它的视超光速现象。多频观测可监测到一些新喷流子源的出现，特别在射电激变源中这些新喷流子源的出现与宽带内（从光学到γ射线）的爆发相关。且得到的一些源的核区谱指数分布，为确认源的VLBI核提供了支持。     

高频VLBI观测射电源的结构

高频VLBI观测揭示出河外射电源在pc或者亚pc尺度上大都有核-喷流的内部结构。尤其是对平谱致密射电源中毫角秒尺度的子源，能以相当高的概率观测到它的视超光速现象。多频观测可监测到一些新喷流子源的出现，特别在射电激变源中这些新喷流子源的出现与宽带内(从光学到γ射线)的爆发相关。且得到的一些源的核区谱指数分布，为确认源的VLBI核提供了支持。     

Extragalactic sources with very asymmetric radio structure: VLA and MERLIN observations

As part of our study to understand the nature of extragalactic radio sources which are very asymmetric in the surface brightness of the two lobes, often with radio emission on only one side of the nucleus, we have observed a large number of them with high angular resolution and good surface brightness sensitivity at radio frequencies. In this paper we present VLA and MERLIN observations of 15 such sources. We discuss their observed structures and spectra, and possible explanations for their morphologies. We report evidence of a possible correlation between the hot-spot brightness ratio and the degree of core prominence, used as a Statistical measure of source orientation, suggesting that relativistic beaming of the hot-spot emission does play a significant role in the observed brightness asymmetry. To explain the apparently one-sided sources within the relativistic beaming framework, the velocities required are in the range of 0.2 to 0.8c. We discuss the possibility that the lobe which is seen to the south of the jet in 3C273 is the counter-lobe seen in projection. We also draw-attention to a number of one-sided sources with very weak cores, and discuss their possible nature.     

Faint Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum sources and the evolution of young radio sources

GPS sources are the objects of choice to study the initial evolution of extragalactic radio sources, since it is most likely that they are the young counterparts of large scale radio sources. Correlations found between their peak frequency, peak flux density and angular size provide strong evidence that synchrotron self absorption is the cause of the spectral turnovers, and indicate that young radio sources evolve in a self-similar way. The difference in redshift distribution between young and old radio sources must be due to a difference in slope of their luminosity functions, and we argue that this slope is strongly affected by the luminosity evolution of the individual sources. A luminosity evolution scenario is proposed in which GPS sources increase in luminosity and large scale radio sources decrease in luminosity with time. It is shown that such a scenario agrees with the local luminosity function of GPS galaxies.     

Observations of extragalactic radio sources at 36 GHz

The observations of 34 extragalactic radio sources with the 22-m Crimean Astrophysical Observatory radio telescope at 36 GHz in 1985–1994 are presented. Intensity variations were detected in 27 objects, which may result from the appearance of new components in their cores.     

Extragalactic source counts and contributions to the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background: predictions for the Planck Surveyor mission

We present predictions for the counts of extragalactic sources, the contributions to fluctuations and their angular power spectrum in each channel foreseen for the Planck Surveyor (formerly COBRAS/SAMBA ) mission. The contribution to fluctuations owing to clustering of both radio and far-IR sources is found to be generally small in comparison with the Poisson term; however the relative importance of the clustering contribution increases and may eventually become dominant if sources are identified and subtracted down to faint flux limits. The central Planck frequency bands are expected to be 'clean': at high galactic latitude (| b | > 20°), where the reduced galactic noise does not prevent the detection of the extragalactic signal, only a tiny fraction of pixels is found to be contaminated by discrete extragalactic sources. Moreover, the 'flat' angular power spectrum of fluctuations resulting from extragalactic sources substantially differs from that of primordial fluctuations; therefore, the removal of contaminating signals is eased even at frequencies where point sources give a sizeable contribution to the foreground noise.     

A VLBI study of 20 southern extragalactic radio sources

This paper describes a 5 GHz VLBI survey in the southern hemisphere. The first observation of 23 extragalactic radio sources was conducted in November 1992. Twenty VLBI images were obtained, of which 15 sources show core-jet structure, one has a two-sided jet, and three sources are unresolved. No compact double source was found. Eleven of the 16 sources with core-jet (including a two-aided jet) show evidence of jet bending. In addition, four sources appear to be superluminal, of which three sources are new.     

Interaction of jets with the ISM of radio galaxies

We present three dimensional simulations of the interaction of a light hypersonic jet with an inhomogeneous thermal and turbulently supported disk in an elliptical galaxy. These simulations are applicable to the GPS/CSS phase of some extragalactic radio sources. We identify four generic phases in the evolution of such a jet with the interstellar medium. The first is a “flood and channel” phase, dominated by complex jet interactions with the dense cloudy medium close to the nucleus. This is characterized by high pressure jet gas finding changing weak points in the ISM and flowing through channels that form and reform over time. A spherical, energy driven, bubble phase ensues, wherein the bubble is larger than the disk scale, but the jet remains fully disrupted close to the nucleus, so that the jet flux is thermalised and generates a smooth isotropic energy-driven bubble. In the subsequent, rapid, jet break-out phase the jet breaks free of the last obstructing dense clouds, becomes collimated and pierces the more or less spherical bubble. In the final classical phase, the jet propagates in a momentum-dominated fashion similar to jets in single component hot haloes, leading to the classical jet–cocoon–bow-shock structure.     

The angular dimensions of extragalactic radio sources

The angular dimensions of compact components of extragalactic radio sources are calculated theoretically on three hypotheses: (a) magnetic field and relativistic particles energy equipartition; (b) equilibrium between synchrotron and Compton losses; (c) radiative lifetime of the same order as the source's light-travel time. Using angular measurements of 73 radio components, divided into two groups (multicomponent and single-component sources), a correcting formulae is derived to reduce the theoretical values to the observed values.This work was partially supported by the Brasilian research agency CNPq.     

The deflection of jets by clouds

The role of collisions between extragalactic jets and dense clouds in determining the appearance of high-redshift radio galaxies is discussed and investigated through numerical hydrodynamic simulations in three dimensions. The code has the facility to track jet material separately from ambient material. This allows us to use simplifying assumptions to calculate synthetic radio images. The results indicate that the most powerful radio sources are likely to be observed during or shortly after an interaction, and that such interactions can explain both the radio structures and the spatial association between optical and radio light found in powerful radio galaxies. In some cases such a scenario may provide an alternative explanation of jet properties to mechanisms based on variations in the source or fluid-dynamical instabilities.This author is supported by a PPARC research studentship     

On the Nature of Variability of Extragalactic Radio Sources: Fundamental Ideas by I.S. Shklovsky

The majority (maybe all) of proposed relativistic and non-relativistic models for variable extragalactic radio sources are based on the same general ideas proposed in the early model by Shklovsky (1960, 1965) – in particular, that the variability is caused by the synchrotron emission of magnetized clouds during their expansion. This model was a "standard" or "canonical" model for more than 20 years. One of the models that uses its ideas and approach is the "hedgehog" model, in which clouds or jets emit and expand in the strong external radial magnetic field of the nucleus of the source. This model has been suggested for a long time, but recent new results comparing it's predictions with observations of multifrequency spectra – especially, instantaneous spectra of many variable sources – and with the typical VLBI structure of compact objects have given strong new arguments in it's favour. The nature of the variability can be satisfactory explained by the hedgehog jet model for many variable and compact extragalactic radio sources. Thus, following up the ideas of I.S. Shklovsky, we conclude that the observed spectra and structure of compact sources can be caused by the synchrotron emission of a quasi-stationary jet in a longitudinal magnetic field, and the nature of variability can be explained by the variable ejection of the continious jet from the nucleus.