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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 319, Issue 4, Pages 1109-1124Publisher
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03932.x
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polarization; BL Lacertae objects : general; radio continuum : galaxies
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The results of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) total intensity (I) and Linear polarization (P) observations at lambda = 6 cm are presented for 10 radio bright BL Lacertae objects. These images complete first-epoch polarization observations for the 1-Jy sample of northern BL Lacertae objects defined by Kuhr & Schmidt. Estimates of superluminal speeds are presented for several sources, bringing the total number of sources in the sample for which such estimates are available to 16. Second-epoch observations currently being reduced should yield speed estimates for VLBI features in essentially all the sources in the sample. The jet magnetic fields of these BL Lacertae objects are usually transverse to the local jet direction, but a sizeable minority (about 30 per cent) have VLBI jet components with longitudinal magnetic fields. This may suggest that the conditions in the VLBI jets of BL Lacertae objects are favourable for the formation of relativistic shocks; alternatively, it may be that the toroidal component of the intrinsic jet magnetic field is characteristically dominant in these sources.
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