TANAMI: Tracking Active Galactic Nuclei with Austral Milliarcsecond Interferometry - II. Additional Sources

• Main Authors: Muller, C (Author), Kadler, M (Author), Ojha, R (Author), Schulz, R (Author), Trustedt, J (Author), Edwards, PG (Author), Ros, E (Author), Carpenter, B (Author), Angioni, R (Author), Blanchard, J (Author), Bock, M (Author), Burd, PR (Author), Dorr, M (Author), Dutka, MS (Author), Eberl, T (Author), Gulyaev, S (Author), Hase, H (Author), Horiuchi, S (Author), Katz, U (Author), Krauss, F (Author), Lovell, JEJ (Author), Natusch, T (Author), Nesci, R (Author), Phillips, C (Author), Plotz, C (Author), Pursimo, T (Author), Quick, JFH (Author), Stevens, J (Author), Thompson, DJ (Author), Tingay, SJ (Author), Tzioumis, AK (Author), Weston, S (Author), Wilms, J (Author), Zensus, JA (Author)
• Format: Others
• Published: EDP Sciences, 2017-10-10T22:29:43Z.
• Subjects: galaxies: active > galaxies: jets > galaxies: nuclei > radio continuum: galaxies - techniques: high angular resolution; Journal Article
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 Context. TANAMI is a multiwavelength program monitoring active galactic nuclei (AGN) south of −30◦ declination including highresolution Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) imaging, radio, optical/UV, X-ray and γ-ray studies. We have previously published first-epoch 8.4 GHz VLBI images of the parsec-scale structure of the initial sample. In this paper, we present images of 39 additional sources. The full sample comprises most of the radio- and γ-ray brightest AGN in the southern quarter of the sky, overlapping with the region from which high-energy (> 100 TeV) neutrino events have been found. Aims. We characterize the parsec-scale radio properties of the jets and compare with the quasi-simultaneous Fermi/LAT γ-ray data. Furthermore, we study the jet properties of sources which are in positional coincidence with high-energy neutrino events as compared to the full sample. We test the positional agreement of high-energy neutrino events with various AGN samples. Methods. TANAMI VLBI observations at 8.4 GHz are made with Southern-Hemisphere radio telescopes located in Australia, Antarctica, Chile, New Zealand, and South Africa. Results. Our observations yield the first images of many jets below −30◦ declination at milliarcsecond resolution. We find that γ-ray loud TANAMI sources tend to be more compact on parsec-scales and have higher core brightness temperatures than γ-ray faint jets, indicating higher Doppler factors. No significant structural difference is found between sources in positional coincidence with high-energy neutrino events and other TANAMI jets. The 22 γ-ray brightest AGN in the TANAMI sky show only a weak positional agreement with high-energy neutrinos demonstrating that the > 100 TeV IceCube signal is not simply dominated by a small number of the γ-ray brightest blazars. Instead, a larger number of sources have to contribute to the signal with each individual source having only a small Poisson probability for producing an event in multi-year integrations of current neutrino detectors.