TANAMI - Tracking Active Galactic Nuclei with Austral Milliarcsecond Interferometry

对河外喷流的超长基线干涉观测使我们能够研究这些从超大质量黑洞流出的相对论流出的动力学演化。我们请求资助一个电视L E13/2职位，以分析在Tanami项目中观测到的75个南天活动星系核的大样本，Tanami计划是南天活动星系核最大的VLBI监测项目。该项目的目的是：a)监测活动星系核喷流的可变毫秒尺度结构；b)利用无线电、X射线和γ射线(使用美国宇航局的SWIFT和费米卫星)的同时流量测量，确定这些天体的宽带光谱能量分布；以及c)测试活动星系核γ射线耀斑与射电喷流产生之间的联系。

Very Long Baseline Interferometric observations of extragalactic jets allow us to study the dynamical evolution of these relativistic outflows from supermassive black holes. We ask for funding of a TV-L E13/2 position in order to analyze the large sample of 75 southern sky Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) observed within the TANAMI-project, the largest VLBI monitoring project of southern AGN. The aim of the project is a) to monitor the variable milliarcsecond-scale structure of AGN jets, b) to determine the broadband spectral energy distribution of these objects, using contemporaneous flux measurements in the radio, the X-rays, and the γ-rays (using NASA’s Swift- and Fermi-satellites), and c) to test the connection between AGN γ-ray flaring and radio jet production.