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Structure and dynamics of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei - modeling radiative properties of blazars.

2011/01/B/ST9/04845

Keywords:

active galactic nuclei blazars jets

Descriptors:

  • ST9_11: High energy and particle astrophysics: X-rays, gamma rays, cosmic rays, neutrinos
  • ST9_12: Relativistic astrophysics

Panel:

ST9 - Astronomy and space science: astrophysics, astrochemistry, astrobiology, solar system, planetary systems, stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, space science, instrumentation

Host institution :

Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikołaja Kopernika PAN

woj. mazowieckie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Marek Sikora 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 4

Call: OPUS 1 - announced on 2011-03-15

Amount awarded: 386 750 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2011-12-12

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2014-12-11

Project duration:: 36 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. komputer przenośny (12 000 PLN)
  2. nod klastra komputerowego (12 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (18)
  1. Constraining the Location of Gamma-Ray Flares in Luminous Blazars
    Authors:
    Nalewajko, Krzysztof; Begelman, Mitchell C.; Sikora, Marek
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2014, tom: 789, strony: id. 161), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/789/2/161 - link to the publication
  2. On the Origin of X-Ray Spectra in Luminous Blazars
    Authors:
    Sikora, Marek; Janiak, Mateusz; Nalewajko, Krzysztof; Madejski, Greg M.; Moderski, Rafał
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2013, tom: 779, strony: id. 68), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/779/1/68 - link to the publication
  3. The brightest gamma-ray flares of blazars
    Authors:
    Nalewajko, Krzysztof
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2013, tom: 430, strony: 1324-1333), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/sts711 - link to the publication
  4. A Fast Flare and Direct Redshift Constraint in Far-ultraviolet Spectra of the Blazar S5 0716+714
    Authors:
    Danforth, Charles W.; Nalewajko, Krzysztof; France, Kevin; Keeney, Brian A.
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2013, tom: 764, strony: id. 57), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/764/1/57 - link to the publication
  5. Constraining Jet Production Scenarios by Studies of Narrow-line Radio Galaxies
    Authors:
    Sikora, Marek; Stasińska, Grażyna; Kozieł-Wierzbowska, Dorota; Madejski, Greg M.; Asari, Natalia V.
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2013, tom: 765, strony: id. 62), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/765/1/62 - link to the publication
  6. Jet models for black hole binaries in the hard spectral state
    Authors:
    Zdziarski, Andrzej A.; Stawarz, Lukasz; Pjanka, Patryk; Sikora, Marek
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2014, tom: 440, strony: p.2238-2254), Wydawca: WILEY
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stu420 - link to the publication
  7. Magnetic Flux Paradigm for Radio Loudness of Active Galactic Nuclei
    Authors:
    Sikora, Marek; Begelman, Mitchell C.
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters (rok: 2013, tom: 764, strony: id. L24), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/2041-8205/764/2/L24 - link to the publication
  8. Quasi-star Jets as Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources
    Authors:
    Czerny, Bozena; Janiuk, Agnieszka; Sikora, Marek; Lasota, Jean-Pierre
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters (rok: 2012, tom: 755, strony: L15), Wydawca: IOP publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/2041-8205/755/1/L15 - link to the publication
  9. Reconciling Models of Luminous Blazars with Magnetic Fluxes Determined by Radio Core-shift Measurements
    Authors:
    Nalewajko, Krzysztof; Sikora, Marek; Begelman, Mitchell C.
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters (rok: 2014, tom: 796, strony: id. L5), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/2041-8205/796/1/L5 - link to the publication
  10. Energetic constraints on a rapid gamma-ray flare in PKS 1222+216
    Authors:
    Nalewajko, Krzysztof; Begelman, Mitchell C.; Cerutti, Benoît.; Uzdensky, Dmitri A.; Sikora, Marek
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2012, tom: 425, strony: 2519), Wydawca: WILEY
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21721.x - link to the publication
  11. Herschel PACS and SPIRE Observations of Blazar PKS 1510-089: A Case for Two Blazar Zones
    Authors:
    Nalewajko, Krzysztof; Sikora, Marek; Madejski, Greg M.; Exter, Katrina; Szostek, Anna; Szczerba, Ryszard; Kidger, Mark R.; Lorente, Rosario
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2012, tom: 760, strony: 69), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/760/1/69 - link to the publication
  12. Magnetisation of jets in luminous blazars
    Authors:
    Janiak, M.; Sikora, M.; Moderski, R.
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2015, tom: 449, strony: 431-439), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stv200 - link to the publication
  13. The Structure and Emission Model of the Relativistic Jet in the Quasar 3C 279 Inferred from Radio to High-energy γ-Ray Observations in 2008-2010
    Authors:
    Hayashida, M.; Madejski, G. M.; Nalewajko, K.; Sikora, M.; Wehrle, A. E.; Ogle, P.; Collmar, W.; Larsson, S.; Fukazawa, Y.; Itoh, R.; Chiang, J.; Stawarz, Ł.; Blandford, R. D.; Richards, J. L.; Max-Moerbeck, W.; Readhead, A.; Buehler, R.; Cavazzuti, E.; Ciprini, S.; Gehrels, N.; Reimer, A.; Szostek, A.; Tanaka, T.; Tosti, G.; Uchiyama, Y.; Kawabata, K. S.; Kino, M.; Sakimoto, K.; Sasada, M.; Sato, S.; Uemura, M.; Yamanaka, M.; Greiner, J.; Kruehler, T.; Rossi, A.; Macquart, J. P.; Bock, D. C.-J.; Villata, M.; Raiteri, C. M.; Agudo, I.; Aller, H. D.; Aller, M. F.; Arkharov, A. A.; Bach, U.; Benítez, E.; Berdyugin, A.; Blinov, D. A.; Blumenthal, K.; Böttcher, M.; Buemi, C. S.; Carosati, D.; Chen, W. P.; Di Paola, A.; Dolci, M.; Efimova, N. V.; Forné, E.; Gómez, J. L.; Gurwell, M. A.; Heidt, J.; Hiriart, D.; Jordan, B.; Jorstad, S. G.; Joshi, M.; Kimeridze, G.; Konstantinova, T. S.; Kopatskaya, E. N.; Koptelova, E.; Kurtanidze, O. M.; Lähteenmäki, A.; Lamerato, A.; Larionov, V. M.; Larionova, E. G.; Larionova, L. V.; Leto, P.; Lindfors, E.; Marscher, A. P.; McHardy, I. M.; Molina, S. N.; Morozova, D. A.; Nikolashvili, M. G.; Nilsson, K.; Reinthal, R.; Roustazadeh, P.; Sakamoto, T.; Sigua, L. A.; Sillanpää, A.; Takalo, L.; Tammi, J.; Taylor, B.; Tornikoski, M.; Trigilio, C.; Troitsky, I. S.; Umana, G.
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2012, tom: 754, strony: 114), Wydawca: IOP publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/754/2/114 - link to the publication
  14. Core shifts, magnetic fields and magnetization of extragalactic jets
    Authors:
    Zdziarski A. A.; Sikora, M.; Pjanka, P.; Tchekhovskoy, A.
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2015, tom: 451, strony: 927-935), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stv986 - link to the publication
  15. Jet contributions to the broad-band spectrum of Cyg X-1 in the hard state
    Authors:
    Zdziarski, Andrzej A.; Pjanka, Patryk; Sikora, Marek; Stawarz, Lukasz
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2014, tom: 442, strony: p.3243-3255), Wydawca: WILEY
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stu1009 - link to the publication
  16. Implications of the Anomalous Outburst in the Blazar PKS 0208-512
    Authors:
    Chatterjee, Ritaban; Nalewajko, Krzysztof; Myers, Adam D.
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters (rok: 2013, tom: 771, strony: id. L25), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/2041-8205/771/2/L25 - link to the publication
  17. On the Origin of the γ-Ray/Optical Lags in Luminous Blazars
    Authors:
    Janiak, Mateusz; Sikora, Marek; Nalewajko, Krzysztof; Moderski, Rafał; Madejski, Greg M.
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2012, tom: 760, strony: 129), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/760/2/129 - link to the publication
  18. Polarization of synchrotron emission from relativistic reconfinement shocks with ordered magnetic fields
    Authors:
    Nalewajko, K.; Sikora, M.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2012, tom: 543, strony: A115), Wydawca: EDPsciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201219359 - link to the publication