Radio quasars and the link with GAIA [HEAP]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6846


Modeling VLBI ejections of nuclei of extragalactic radio sources, indicates that their nuclei contain a binary black hole system. One can derive the distance and the positions of the two black holes in the plane of the sky. We can also use the RMS of the time series of the ICRF2 survey to obtain an estimate of the structure and the size of the nuclei. We will discuss the possible problems to link VLBI observations and GAIA optical observations of radio quasars if they contain a binary black hole system.

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J. Roland
Fri, 28 Feb 14
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