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

2011/01/B/ST9/04845

Keywords

Descriptors

  • ST9_11: Astrofizyka wysokich energii - promieniowanie rentgenowskie i gamma, promienie kosmiczne, neutrina
  • ST9_12: Astrofizyka relatywistyczna - procesy wokół obiektów zwartych (białych karłów, gwiazd neutronowych i czarnych dziur)

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

Voivodeship: mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution)

prof. Marek Jan 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
2011-12-12
Project end date
2014-12-11
Project duration
36 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status
Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. komputer przenośny. Cost: 12 000 PLN
  2. nod klastra komputerowego. Cost: 12 000 PLN

Information in the final report

Publication in academic press/journals (18)

  1. 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 (year: 2013, volume: 779, pages: id. 68), Publisher: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/779/1/68 – link to the publication
  2. Polarization of synchrotron emission from relativistic reconfinement shocks with ordered magnetic fields

    Authors:
    Nalewajko, K.; Sikora, M.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (year: 2012, volume: 543, pages: A115), Publisher: EDPsciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201219359 – link to the publication
  3. The brightest gamma-ray flares of blazars

    Authors:
    Nalewajko, Krzysztof
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (year: 2013, volume: 430, pages: 1324-1333), Publisher: 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 (year: 2013, volume: 764, pages: id. 57), Publisher: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/764/1/57 – link to the publication
  5. Magnetisation of jets in luminous blazars

    Authors:
    Janiak, M.; Sikora, M.; Moderski, R.
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (year: 2015, volume: 449, pages: 431-439), Publisher: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stv200 – link to the publication
  6. 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 (year: 2014, volume: 442, pages: p.3243-3255), Publisher: WILEY
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stu1009 – 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 (year: 2013, volume: 764, pages: id. L24), Publisher: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/2041-8205/764/2/L24 – link to the publication
  8. 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 (year: 2012, volume: 754, pages: 114), Publisher: IOP publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/754/2/114 – 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 (year: 2014, volume: 796, pages: id. L5), Publisher: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/2041-8205/796/1/L5 – link to the publication
  10. Quasi-star Jets as Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources

    Authors:
    Czerny, Bozena; Janiuk, Agnieszka; Sikora, Marek; Lasota, Jean-Pierre
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters (year: 2012, volume: 755, pages: L15), Publisher: IOP publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/2041-8205/755/1/L15 – link to the publication
  11. 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 (year: 2013, volume: 765, pages: id. 62), Publisher: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/765/1/62 – link to the publication
  12. 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 (year: 2014, volume: 440, pages: p.2238-2254), Publisher: WILEY
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stu420 – link to the publication
  13. Constraining the Location of Gamma-Ray Flares in Luminous Blazars

    Authors:
    Nalewajko, Krzysztof; Begelman, Mitchell C.; Sikora, Marek
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (year: 2014, volume: 789, pages: id. 161), Publisher: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/789/2/161 – 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 (year: 2015, volume: 451, pages: 927-935), Publisher: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stv986 – link to the publication
  15. 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 (year: 2012, volume: 425, pages: 2519), Publisher: WILEY
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21721.x – 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 (year: 2013, volume: 771, pages: id. L25), Publisher: 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 (year: 2012, volume: 760, pages: 129), Publisher: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/760/2/129 – link to the publication
  18. 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 (year: 2012, volume: 760, pages: 69), Publisher: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/760/1/69 – link to the publication

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