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  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
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The RadioAstron Dedicated DiFX Distribution

  • Gabriele Bruni,
  • James M. Anderson,
  • Walter Alef,
  • Helge Rottmann,
  • Andrei P. Lobanov and
  • J. Anton Zensus

27 October 2016

Distributed FX-architecture (DiFX) is a software Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) correlator currently adopted by several main correlation sites around the globe. After the launch of the RadioAstron Space-VLBI mission in 2011, an extension wa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,744 Views
22 Pages

Effelsberg Monitoring of a Sample of RadioAstron Blazars: Analysis of Intra-Day Variability

  • Jun Liu,
  • Hayley Bignall,
  • Thomas P. Krichbaum,
  • Xiang Liu,
  • Alex Kraus,
  • Yuri Y. Kovalev,
  • Kirill V. Sokolovsky,
  • Emmanouil Angelakis and
  • J. Anton Zensus

We present the first results of an ongoing intra-day variability (IDV) flux density monitoring program of 107 blazars, which were selected from a sample of RadioAstron space very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) targets. The IDV observations were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,064 Views
11 Pages

Intra-Day Variability Observations of Two Dozens of Blazars at 4.8 GHz

  • Xiang Liu,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Ning Chang,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Lang Cui,
  • Xiaofeng Yang and
  • Thomas P. Krichbaum

14 January 2021

Two dozens of radio loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been observed with Urumqi 25 m radio telescope in order to search for intra-day variability (IDV). The target sources are blazars (namely flat spectrum radio quasars and BL Lac objects) whic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
11,296 Views
28 Pages

18 December 2019

Accreting supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGN) produce powerful relativistic jets that shine from radio to GeV/TeV γ-rays. Over the past decade, AGN jets have extensively been studied in various energy bands and our knowledg...