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MOJAVE Time Lapse Movies of AGN Jets

These selected movies are linearly interpolated time lapse animations of the parsec-scale jet evolution in the MOJAVE AGN sample. Movies of other AGN in the MOJAVE sample can be accessed directly from their individual source pages in our data archive.

In the total intensity movies (click on a thumbnail image), the pseudocolors represent 15 GHz total intensity. In the linear polarization movies (click on a source name), the pseudocolors represent fractional linear polarization, and are superimposed on total intensity contours. The sticks represent electric polarization vectors, and are superimposed on linearly polarized intensity contours plus a single lowest total intensity contour. The full-width half-maximum interferometric restoring beam dimensions are represented by the cross at the lower left of the images.

Some movies of particular interest are:

A movie of the nearby quasar 3C 273, which includes fitted accelerating trajectories of numerous individual superluminal features.

A movie of the powerful quasar 3C 279, which shows a dramatic change in direction of superluminal feature in 1999, reported by Homan et al. 2003.

An annotated movie of the quasar PKS 1222+21 which is a good example of a superluminal, accelerating trajectory, and is intended for general audiences.

For our 2015 study of MHD waves in BL Lacertae, we produced an annotated movie showing the whip-like action of the jet ridgeline in response to Alfvén waves propagating downstream on the longitudinal component of the magnetic field.

Multiple Superluminal Feature Ejections
0110+318 0110+318 0224+671 0224+671 0241+622 0241+622 0316+413 0316+413 0333+321 0333+321 0415+379 0415+379 0430+052 0430+052 0605-085 0605-085 0736+017 0736+017 0827+243 0827+243 0836+710 0836+710 0851+202 0851+202
0906+015 0906+015 0945+408 0945+408 1418+546 1418+546 1641+399 1641+399 1928+738 1928+738 2131-021 2131-021 2155-152 2155-152 2201+315 2201+315 2331+073 2331+073 2345-167 2345-167

 Accelerating Features
0224+671 0224+671 0738+313 0738+313 0805-077 0805-077 0814+425 0814+425 0827+243 0827+243 0945+408 0945+408 1127-145 1127-145 1150+812 1150+812 1213-172 1213-172 1222+216 1222+216
1253-055 1253-055 1633+382 1633+382 1725+044 1725+044 1828+487 1828+487

 Varying Ejection Directions
0529+075 0529+075 0754+100 0754+100 0851+202 0851+202 0953+254 0953+254 1222+216 1222+216 1226+023 1226+023 1308+326 1308+326 1502+106 1502+106 1510-089 1510-089 1546+027 1546+027 1730-130 1730-130
2216-038 2216-038

 Complex Trajectories
0003-066 0003-066 0059+581 0059+581 0336-019 0336-019 1611+343 1611+343 2131-021 2131-021 2223-052 2223-052

 Non-Radial Trajectories
0106+013 0106+013 0212+735 0212+735 1334-127 1334-127 1845+797 1845+797 2243-123 2243-123

Two-Sided Jets
0238-084 0238-084 0316+413 0316+413 1413+135 1413+135 1957+405 1957+405

Interstellar Scattering
2023+335 2023+335



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