EVN 2014 - (other evn conferences)
7-10 October 2014
Cagliari, Italy
published May 21, 2015
The Istituto di Radioastronomia (IRA) di Bologna and the Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari (OAC), on behalf of the European VLBI Consortium, hosted the 12th European VLBI Network (EVN) Symposium and Users Meeting. The Conference was held from 7th to 10th of October at the Hotel Regina Margherita, in the center of Cagliari. The latest scientific results and technical developments from VLBI, and, in particular, e-VLBI and space-VLBI (RadioAstron) outcomes were reported. The timing of this meeting coincided with the first successful observational tests of the Sardinia Radio Telescopes within the EVN, and with a number of results from new and upgraded radio facilities around the globe, such as e-MERLIN, ALMA, and the SKA pathfinders. The symposium was attended by 133 participants from all over the world, with the Asian community represented by more than 20 colleagues. The program of the meeting consisted of 70 oral contributions (including 8 invited speakers) and 50 poster that covered a very wide range of VLBI topics both in galactic and extragalactic astrophysics (e.g., AGN, stellar evolution from birth to death, astrometry, and planetary science) as well as technological developments and future international collaborations. The scientific program also included a visit to the 64-m Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) and the EVN Users Meeting, where astronomers have provided useful feedback on various matters regarding EVN operations.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) under grant agreement No 283393 (RadioNet3)

EDITORIAL BOARD

Andrea Tarchi
Marcello Giroletti
Luigina Feretti
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Sessions
Welcome and introduction
SESSION 1 - Low luminosity AGN and starburst galaxies
SESSION 2 - Powerful AGN, jets and gamma-ray emission
SESSION 3 - Technological issues and new developments
SESSION 4 - Star formation
SESSION 5 - Current & future facilities and international collaborations
SESSION 6 - Astrometry and planetary science
SESSION 7 - Supernovae and late stages of stellar evolution
SESSION 8 - Milky Way
SESSION 9 - Pulsar and transient objects
Posters
Welcome and introduction
EVN: Present and Future
A. Zensus and E. Ros
SESSION 1 - Low luminosity AGN and starburst galaxies
Revealing jet radio emission from intermediate-mass black holes
M. Mezcua
Four hot DOGs eaten up with the EVN
S. Frey, Z. Paragi, K.E. Gabányi and T. An
On the origin of radio emission in Radio-Quiet AGN and their connection to X-rays
F. Panessa, L. Bassani, A. Bazzano, G. Bicknell, P. Castangia, M. Giroletti, E. Maiorano, A. Malizia, A. Tarchi and P. Ubertini
Things that go bump in the night: the curious case of NGC660
M. Argo, I. van Bemmel, S. Connolly and R.J. Beswick
EVN observations of weak blazars
F. Mantovani
Broad absorption line (BAL) quasars as a class of low luminosity AGNs
M. Kunert-Bajraszewska
EVN imaging of the LIRGI sample
N. Ramírez-Olivencia
LeMMINGs e-MERLIN survey of nearby galaxies
R.J. Beswick, M. Argo, R. Evans, I. McHardy, D.R.A. Williams and J. Westcott
The e-MERGE Legacy Survey
T. Muxlow
SESSION 2 - Powerful AGN, jets and gamma-ray emission
Radio and gamma ray connection in relativistic jets
M. Orienti
Millimiter VLBI observations: Black Hole Physics and the Origin of Jets
T.P. Krichbaum
An EVN survey of hard spectrum gamma ray sources
M. Giroletti, R. Lico, H.E. Bignall, L. Costamante, F. D'Ammando, G. Giovannini, M. Orienti, C. Reynolds and G. Tosti
Connection between parsec-scale radio jet and gamma-ray flares in the blazar 1156+295
V. Ramakrishnan, J. Leon-Tavares, E. Rastorgueva-Foi, K. Wiik, S.G. Jorstad, A. Marscher, M. Tornikoski, I. Agudo, A. Lahteenmaki, E. Valtaoja, M.F. Aller, D.A. Blinov, C. Casadio, N.V. Efimova, M.A. Gurwell, J.L. Gómez, V.A. Hagen-Thorn, M. Joshi, E. Järvelä, T.S. Konstantinova, E.N. Kopatskaya, V.M. Larionov, E.G. Larionova, L.V. Larionova, N. Lavonen, N.R. MacDonald, I. McHardy, S.N. Molina, D.A. Morozova, E. Nieppola, J. Tammi, B.W. Taylor and I.S. Troitsky
High resolution mm-VLBI imaging of Cygnus A
B. Boccardi, T.P. Krichbaum, U. Bach, E. Ros and A. Zensus
Continuing EVN monitoring of HST-1 in the jet of M87
K. Hada, M. Giroletti, G. Giovannini, C. Casadio, M. Beilicke, A. Cesarini, C.C. Cheung, A. Doi, J.L. Gómez, M. Kino and H. Nagai
The nuclear structure of 3C84 with space VLBI (RadioAstron) observations
G. Giovannini, M. Orienti, T. Savolainen, H. Nagai, M. Giroletti and K. Hada
Consequences of a possible jet-star interaction in the inner central parsec of Centaurus A
C. Müller, M. Kadler, K. Mannheim, M. Perucho, R. Ojha, E. Ros, R. Schulz and J. Wilms
Very Long Baseline Polarimetry and the Gamma-ray connection in Markarian 421 during the broadband campaign in 2011
R. Lico, M. Giroletti, M. Orienti, J.L. Gómez, C. Casadio, F. D'Ammando, W. Cotton, P.G. Edwards, L. Fuhrmann, S.G. Jorstad, M. Kino, Y.Y. Kovalev, T.P. Krichbaum, A. Marscher, D. Paneque, K. Sokolovsky, B.G. Piner and M.G. Blasi
Longitudinal and transverse velocity fields in parsec-scale jets
F. Mertens and A. Lobanov
5 year Global 3-mm VLBI survey of Gamma-ray active blazars
J.A. Hodgson, T.P. Krichbaum, A. Marscher, S.G. Jorstad, I. Marti-Vidal, M. Lindqvist, M. Bremer, S. Sanchez, P. de Vicente and A. Zensus
Mapping HI absorption at z=0.026 against a resolved background CSO
A. Biggs, M. Zwaan, J. Liske and F. Briggs
VLBI observations of the water megamaser in the nucleus of the Compton-thick AGN IRAS15480-0344
P. Castangia, A. Caccianiga, P. Severgnini, A. Tarchi and R. Della Ceca
SESSION 3 - Technological issues and new developments
Present status and technical directions of the EVN
M. Lindqvist
DBBC3 Development
G. Tuccari, W. Alef, A. Bertarini, S. Buttaccio, S. Casey, A. Felke, M. Lindqvist, P.R. Platania and M. Wunderlich
The X/Ka Celestial Reference Frame
C. Garcia-Miro
Solving the polarization problem in ALMA-VLBI observations
I. Marti-Vidal, J. Conway, M. Lindqvist, A. Roy, W. Alef and A. Zensus
Modeling of propagation in the neutral atmosphere for radio astronomy data analysis: a paradigm shift
L. Petrov
Out of focus holography at Effelsberg
SESSION 4 - Star formation
High-Mass Star Formation and Maser VLBI
L. Moscadelli
The methanol maser ring G23.657-0.127 after 9 years
A. Bartkiewicz, A. Sanna, M. Szymczak and L. Moscadelli
3D Gas Dynamics from Methanol Masers observed with the EVN reveals Rotating Disks around O-type Young Stars
C. Goddi and L. Moscadelli
Magnetic field measurements at milliarcsecond resolution around massive young stellar objects.
G. Surcis, W.H.T. Vlemmings, H.J. van Langevelde, B. Hutawarakorn Kramer, A. Bartkiewicz and H. Engelkamp
Transition in the Outflow Evoution of the Massive Star-forming Region W75N
J.S. Kim and S.W. Kim
SESSION 5 - Current & future facilities and international collaborations
Blazars at Low Radio Frequencies
J. Trüstedt, M. Kadler, M. Brüggen, H. Falcke, G. Heald, J. McKean, C. Müller, E. Ros, R. Schulz and J. Wilms
Towards the Italian VLBI network: first tests and perspectives
M. Stagni
The SRT: Astronomical Validation & Scientific Perspectives
I. Prandoni, A. Melis, C. Migoni, D. Perrodin, M. Burgay, F. Govoni, M. Murgia, A. Pellizzoni, S. Righini, A. Tarchi, M. Bartolini, P. Bolli, M. Buttu, P. Castangia, S. Casu, R. Concu, A. Corongiu, N. D’Amico, E. Egron, A. Fara, F. Gaudiomonte, D. Guidetti, N.M. Iacolina, F. Massi, F. Nasyr, A. Orfei, A. Orlati, T. Pisanu, S. Poppi, I. Porceddu, A. Ridolfi, R. Ricci, C. Stanghellini, C. Tiburzi, A. Trois, V. Vacca, G. Valente and A. Zanichelli
SESSION 6 - Astrometry and planetary science
Astrometry and new methods made possible by the new generation of instruments
M. Rioja, R. Dodson, T.H. Jung and B.W. Sohn
Direct comparison between VERA, VLBA and EVN astrometry results and an analytic gas dynamics model
N. Sakai
Project RISARD - the story so far
M. Gawronski
Scintillation of Venus and Mars Express radio signal on interplanetary and ionosphere plasma
G. Molera Calvés, G. Cimò, S.V. Pogrebenko, D. Duev, T. Bocanegra-Bahamón and K. Rajpurohit
SESSION 7 - Supernovae and late stages of stellar evolution
VLBI of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts
M. Bietenholz
Constraints on the progenitor system and the environs of SN 2014J from deep EVN and MERLIN radio observations
M. Perez-Torres
VLBI detection of the internal shocks in nova V959 Mon
J. Yang, Z. Paragi, T. O'Brien, L. Chomiuk and J.D. Linford
Sub-mm maser VLBI: how do stellar winds break free from the star's gravity?
A. Richards, A. Baudry, S. Etoka, E. Humphreys, V. Impellizzeri, H.J. van Langevelde and W.H.T. Vlemmings
SESSION 8 - Milky Way
Maser Astrometry with VLBI and galactic structure
M. Honma
Binary stars in moving groups
R. Azulay
Discovering the colliding wind binary HD 93129A
B. Marcote, P. Benaglia, J. Moldón, E. Nelan, M. De Becker, S. Dougherty and B. Koribalski
Preliminary results the COBRaS e-MERLIN legacy project
D. Fenech, J. Morford and R. Prinja
Phase-lag distance of OH83.4-0.9 from eMERLIN and NRT observations
S. Etoka, D. Engels, E. Gerard and A. Richards
SiO masers from AGB stars in the vibrationally excited v=1,v=2, and v=3 states
J.F. Desmurs, V. Bujarrabal, M. Lindqvist, J. Alcolea, R. Soria-Ruiz and P. Bergman
Flaring Episodes of Cyg X-3 with Korean and Japanses VLBI
S.W. Kim
SESSION 9 - Pulsar and transient objects
Transient sources at the highest angular resolution
M. Massi
A pulsar wind nebula associated with PSR J2032+4127 as the powering source of TeV J2032+4130
J. Moldon, J.M. Paredes, M. Ribó, V. Bosh-Ramon, V. Zabalza, J. Martí, M. Kramer, A. Lyne and B. Stappers
Study of scattering material with RadioAstron-VLBI observations
A. Andrianov, T. Smirnova, V. Shishov, P. Mikhail, N. Kardashev, S. Vladimir, C. Gwinn, M. Johnson, H.E. Bignall, A. Deller and M. Kramer
Preliminary results of giant pulse investigations from Crab pulsar with Radioastron.
A. Rudnitskiy, P. Mikhail and S. Vladimir
Probing interstellar scattering towards the Galactic centre with pulsar VLBI
Posters
Resolving the nature of compact ultra-steep spectrum sources
M. Argo, R. Steadman, Z. Paragi, H.R. Kloeckner and H.J.A. Rottgering
10 Years of Multi-Frequency Monitoring of Blazars with Medicina and Noto
U. Bach, M. Giroletti, P. Leto, C.M. Raiteri, C.S. Buemi, F. D'Ammando, L. Fuhrmann, M. Orienti, A. Orlati, M. Rossini, C. Trigilio, G. Umana and M. Villata
Probing high resolution spectroscopy with the Digital BBC VLBI-backend
U. Bach, S. Brauch, B. Winkel and A. Kraus
Space-VLBI with RadioAstron: new correlator capabilities at MPIfR
G. Bruni, J. Anderson, W. Alef, A. Lobanov and A. Zensus
Orientation of the cores of hybrid morphology radio sources
M. Ceglowski, M. Kunert-Bajraszewska and M. Gawronski
Probing Very Early Stage of Radio Source Evolution in NGC 1275 with VERA
H. Chida
MERLIN and eMERLIN OH maser observations toward the star forming region complex W49 A
S. Etoka, K. Asanok, M.D. Gray, A. Richards, B. Kramer and N. Gasiprong
J1026+2542: proper motion in a blazar jet at z=5.27
S. Frey, Z. Paragi, J. Fogasy and L. Gurvits
The survey for new AGN candidates within the field of Fermi unassociated gamma-ray sources
Y. Fujinaga
e-MERLIN observation of the puzzling TeV source HESS J1943+213
K.É. Gabányi, G. Dubner, E. Giacani, S. Frey and Z. Paragi
VLBI digital terminal at the Deep Space Network: first results from non-JPL correlators
C. Garcia-Miro
Twin SMBH candidates in the BCG of RBS 797
M. Gitti, M. Giroletti, G. Giovannini, L. Feretti and E. Liuzzo
Wide-field VLBA observations of the COSMOS field
N. Herrera Ruiz, E. Middelberg and A. Deller
Star formation in the central kpc region of NGC1614
R. Herrero-Illana, M. Perez-Torres, A. Alberdi, A. Alonso-Herrero, L. Colina, A. Efstathiou, L. Hernandez-Garcia, D. Miralles-Caballero, P. Vaisanen, C. Packham, V. Rajpaul and A.A. Zijlstra
Mm-VLBI Phase correction capability with the korean VLBI Network
T.H. Jung, B.W. Sohn and D.Y. Byun
Localizing the gamma rays from blazar PKS 1502+106
V. Karamanavis, L. Fuhrmann, T.P. Krichbaum, E. Angelakis, J.A. Hodgson, I. Myserlis, I. Nestoras, A. Zensus, H. Ungerechts and A. Sievers
SFXC: The new EVN data processor
M. Kettenis and A. Keimpema
Key Science Observations of AGNs with KaVA array
M. Kino, K. Niinuma, G.Y. Zhao and B.W. Sohn
The off-axis jet structure in Mrk 501 at mm-wavelengths
S. Koyama, M. Kino, M. Giroletti, A. Doi, H. Nagai, K. Hada, K. Niinuma, M. Orienti, G. Giovannini, E. Ros, T. Savolainen, M. Perez-Torres and T.P. Krichbaum
Nearby radio loud AGN and the Unified Model
E. Liuzzo, G. Giovannini and M. Giroletti
The changing morphology of the radio outflow of HESS J0632+057 along its orbit
B. Marcote, J. Moldón, M. Ribó, J.M. Paredes and Z. Paragi
The Nordic tools for advanced analysis of interferometry data
I. Marti-Vidal, W.H.T. Vlemmings, L. Lindroos and S. Muller
The LOFAR long baseline snapshot calibrator survey
J. Moldon, A. Deller, O. Wucknitz, N. Jackson, A. Drabent, T.D. Carozzi, J.E. Conway, E. Varenius, A.D. Kapinska, J. McKean, L. Morabito and P. Zarka
Baseline geometry effects due to source structure in geodetic VLBI
A.J. Mora Diaz
Constraining wind clumping and mass-loss in OB stars with COBRaS: The e-MERLIN Cyg OB II Radio Survey
J. Morford
Multi-epoch, quasi-simultaneous 22/43GHz observations of the M84 nucleus with VERA
S. Nakahara
Multi-epoch and multi-frequency VLBI observation of X-ray to gamma-ray flare in TeV blazar Mrk 421
K. Niinuma, M. Kino and A. Doi
Opening angles and shapes of parsec-scale AGN jets
A. Pushkarev, M.L. Lister, Y.Y. Kovalev and T. Savolainen
Perplexing correlations between Gamma-ray emission and parsec-scale jet orientation variations in the BL Lac object S5 0716+714
B. Rani, T.P. Krichbaum, A. Marscher, S.G. Jorstad, J.A. Hodgson, L. Fuhrmann and A. Zensus
Determination of annual parallax for cataclysmic binary system AM Herculis with the EVN interferometric network.
G. Rycyk and M. Gawronski
VERA frequest monitoring of the Parsec-scale jet in the BL Lac Object OJ 287 simultaneous with gamma-ray flares during 2011-2012
S. Sawada-Satoh
The EVN view of the highly variable TeV active galaxy IC310
R. Schulz, M. Kadler, E. Ros, D. Eisenacher Glawion, U. Bach, D. Elsaesser, C. Grossberger, I. Kreykenbohm, K. Mannheim, C. Müller, J. Trüstedt and J. Wilms
DBBC3: AntArr Project
G. Tuccari, W. Alef, S. Buttaccio, V. Tornatore and M. Wunderlich
Using software spectrometer to ensure VLBI signal chain reliability
M. Uunila, J. Kallunki and G. Molera Calvés
Violent maser events in the cirumstellar envelope of the pre-planetary nebula IRAS18276-1431
P. Wolak, M. Szymczak, A. Bartkiewicz and E. Gerard
Wide field observations from the e-MERGE survey
N. Wrigley
KVN Source-Frequency Phase-Referencing Observation of 3C 66A & 3C 66B
G.Y. Zhao, T.H. Jung, R. Dodson, M. Rioja and B.W. Sohn