Colloq Abstract - Jorstad

April 6, 2018

11:00am Mountain

 

Svetlana Jorstad (BU)

 

Kinematics of Parsec-scale Jets of Gamma-Ray Blazars and Connection between Jet events and Gamma-Ray activity

 

Abstract

I will describe a multiwavelength program of monitoring of a sample of bright gamma-ray blazars, which the Boston University (BU) group has being carrying out since June 2007. The program includes monthly monitoring with the Very Long Baseline Array at 43 GHz, optical photometric and polarimetric observations, and construction and analysis of gamma-ray light curves based on data provided by the Large Area Telescope of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. I will present general results about the kinematics of parsec-scale radio jets, as well as the connection between gamma-ray outbursts and jet events.

This research  is supported by NASA/Fermi  grant 80NSSC17K0649 and NSF grant AST-1615796.

 




 

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