GBT13B-226

RadioAstron-GBT Space VLBI survey of AGN at the highest angular resolutions

Abstract

We request 160 hours of GBT time in the Semester 2013B and 2014A to perform a non-imaging Space VLBI survey of the bright AGN jet cores with RadioAstron at L/C/K bands.
The main goal of this project is to study physics of AGN cores and properties of ISM by observing AGNs up to the longest RadioAstron baseline projections and measuring the core's geometry and brightness temperature while taking the influence of the inter-stellar medium into full consideration.
These observations will enable the highest resolution ever achieved in astronomy.

Investigators

Name	Institution
Frank Ghigo	Green Bank Observatory
Yuri Kovalev *	Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
James Anderson	Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum
David Jauncey	Australia Telescope National Facility
Jean-Pierre Macquart	Curtin University of Technology
Hayley Bignall	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Carl Gwinn	California at Santa Barbara, University of
Matthew Lister	Purdue University
richard schilizzi	Manchester, University of
Norbert Bartel	York University
Michael Bietenholz	York University; Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory
Andrei Lobanov	Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
Leonid Gurvits	Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry European Research Infrastructure Consortium
Jesus Gomez-Gonzalez	Instituto Geográfico Nacional
Nikolai Kardashev	Lebedev Physical Institute
Kirill Sokolovsky	Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of
Petr Voytsik	Lebedev Physical Institute
Jonathan Romney	Long Baseline Observatory
Gabriele Giovannini	Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
Cormac Reynolds	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

* indicates the PI