Third party funded individual grant
Start date : 01.01.2012
End date : 31.07.2015
Very Long Baseline Interferometric observations of extragalactic jets allow us to study the dynamical evolution of these relativistic outflows from supermassive black holes. We ask for funding of a TV-L E13/2 position in order to analyze the large sample of 75 southern sky Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) observed within the TANAMI-project, the largest VLBI monitoring project of southern AGN. The aim of the project is a) to monitor the variable milliarcsecond-scale structure of AGN jets, b) to determine the broadband spectral energy distribution of these objects, using contemporaneous flux measurements in the radio, the X-rays, and the γ-rays (using NASA’s Swift- and Fermi-satellites), and c) to test the connection between AGN γ-ray flaring and radio jet production.