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Milliarcsecond Radio Structure of AGN as a Cosmological Probe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

L.I. Gurvits
L.I. Gurvits*
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe and Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, Postbus 2, 7990 AA, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands and Astro Space Center of P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

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Recent achievements in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) allow the reconsideration of milliarcsecond radio structure of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) as a “standard object”. The basic concept of this approach is described and illustrated.

Type
Part II: Contributed Papers
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 168: Examining the Big Bang and the Diffuse Background Radiations , 1996 , pp. 477 - 480
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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