期刊
RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
卷 21, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
NATL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES, CHIN ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4527/21/8/205
关键词
galaxies; active; galaxies; jets; instrumentation; interferometers; radio continuum; galaxies
资金
- Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
- Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP18K03656, JP18H03721, JP19H01943, JP18KK0090]
- Mitsubishi Foundation [201911019]
- EACOA Fellowship - East Asia Core Observatories Association of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- EACOA Fellowship - East Asia Core Observatories Association of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
- EACOA Fellowship - East Asia Core Observatories Association of the Center for Astronomical Mega-Science
- EACOA Fellowship - East Asia Core Observatories Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- EACOA Fellowship - East Asia Core Observatories Association of the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
- National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea [2014H1A2A1018695, 2015H1A2A1033752]
- NRF [2019R1F1A1059721]
- Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11590780, 11590784]
- Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [KJCX1-YW-18]
- Scientific Program of Shanghai Municipality [08DZ1160100]
- Key Laboratory for Radio Astronomy, CAS
- NSFC [11803071, U2031212, 61931002, 11933007]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFA0404602]
- CAS 'Light of West China' Program [2018-XBQNXZ-B-021]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the CAS [2017084]
- Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) [FRGS/1/2019/STG02/UM/02/6]
- Max Planck Partner Group of the MPG
- CAS
- Research Program of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, CAS [ZDBS-LY-SLH011]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2015H1A2A1033752] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
The East Asian Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (EAVN) is an international VLBI array promoted by China, Japan, and Korea to study active galactic nuclei (AGN) and other scientific goals. The research shows that with the help of EAVN, fine structures in the targets can be successfully detected, allowing for accurate measurements of their positions and morphologies.
The East Asian Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Network (EAVN) is a rapidly evolving international VLBI array that is currently promoted under joint efforts among China, Japan and Korea. EAVN aims at forming a joint VLBI Network by combining a large number of radio telescopes distributed over East Asian regions. After the combination of the Korean VLBI Network (KVN) and the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA) into KaVA, further expansion with the joint array in East Asia is actively promoted. Here we report the first imaging results (at 22 and 43 GHz) of bright radio sources obtained with KaVA connected to Tianma 65-m and Nanshan 26-m Radio Telescopes in China. To test the EAVN imaging performance for different sources, we observed four active galactic nuclei (AGN) having different brightness and morphology. As a result, we confirmed that the Tianma 65-m Radio Telescope (TMRT) significantly enhances the overall array sensitivity, a factor of 4 improvement in baseline sensitivity and 2 in image dynamic range compared to the case of KaVA only. The addition of the Nanshan 26-m Radio Telescope (NSRT) further doubled the east-west angular resolution. With the resulting high-dynamic-range, high-resolution images with EAVN (KaVA+TMRT+NSRT), various fine-scale structures in our targets, such as the counter-jet in M87, a kink-like morphology of the 3C 273 jet and the weak emission in other sources are successfully detected. This demonstrates the powerful capability of EAVN to study AGN jets and to achieve other science goals in general. Ongoing expansion of EAVN will further enhance the angular resolution, detection sensitivity and frequency coverage of the network.
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