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AN HST PROPER-MOTION STUDY OF THE LARGE-SCALE JET OF 3C273 by Meyer, Eileen T., Sparks, William B., Georganopoulos, Markos, Anderson, Jay, Marel, Roeland van der, Biretta, John, Tony Sohn, Sangmo, Chiaberge, Marco, Perlman, Eric, Norman, Colin

“…ABSTRACT The radio galaxy 3C 273 hosts one of the nearest and best-studied powerful quasar jets. Having been imaged repeatedly by the Hubble Space Telescope…”
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Optical Polarization and Spectral Variability in the M87 Jet by Perlman, Eric S, Adams, Steven C, Cara, Mihai, Bourque, Matthew, Harris, D. E, Madrid, Juan P, Simons, Raymond C, Clausen-Brown, Eric, Cheung, C. C, Stawarz, Lukasz, Georganopoulos, Markos, Sparks, William B, Biretta, John A

“…During the last decade, M87's jet has been the site of an extraordinary variability event, with one knot (HST-1) increasing by over a factor 100 in brightness…”
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Formation of the radio jet in M87 at 100 Schwarzschild radii from the central black hole by Biretta, John A, Junor, William, Livio, Mario

“…Massive galaxies often are the source of well collimated jets of material that flow outwards for tens to hundreds of kiloparsecs from the regions surrounding…”
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Proper Motions of Jets on the Kiloparsec Scale: New Results with HST by Meyer, Eileen, Sparks, William, Georganopoulos, Markos, van der Marel, Roeland, Anderson, Jay, Sohn, Sangmo, Biretta, John, Norman, Colin, Chiaberge, Marco, Perlman, Eric

“…The Hubble Space Telescope recently celebrated 25 years of operation. Some of the first images of extragalactic optical jets were taken by HST in the…”
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Month-Timescale Optical Variability in the M87 Jet by Perlman, Eric S, Harris, D. E, Biretta, John A, Sparks, William B, Macchetto, F. Duccio

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Deep 10 Micron Imaging of M87 by Perlman, Eric S, Sparks, William B, Radomski, James, Packham, Chris, Fisher, R. Scott, Piña, Robert, Biretta, John A

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Optical Polarimetry of the Jets of Nearby Radio Galaxies. I. The Data by Perlman, Eric S, Padgett, C. A, Georganopoulos, Markos, Sparks, William B, Biretta, John A, O’Dea, Christopher P, Baum, Stefi A, Birkinshaw, Mark, Worrall, D. M, Dulwich, Fred, Jester, Sebastian, Martel, André, Capetti, Alessandro, Leahy, J. Patrick

“…We present an overview of new HST imaging polarimetry of six nearby radio galaxies with optical jets. These observations triple the number of extragalactic…”
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A kiloparsec-scale internal shock collision in the jet of a nearby radio galaxy by Meyer, Eileen T., Georganopoulos, Markos, Sparks, William B., Perlman, Eric, van der Marel, Roeland P., Anderson, Jay, Sohn, Sangmo Tony, Biretta, John, Norman, Colin, Chiaberge, Marco

“…Observations of a collision between two knots in the jet of nearby radio galaxy 3C 264 support the internal shock model of how the jet plasma is energized…”
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Discovery of an Optical Synchrotron Jet in 3C 15 by Martel, André R, Sparks, William B, Macchetto, Duccio, Biretta, John A, Baum, Stefi A, Golombek, Daniel, McCarthy, Patrick J, de Koff, Sigrid, Miley, George K

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The Optical–Near‐Infrared Spectrum of the M87 Jet from Hubble Space Telescope Observations by Perlman, Eric S., Biretta, John A., Sparks, William B., Macchetto, F. Duccio, Leahy, J. Patrick

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Deep Hubble space telescope ultraviolet imaging of the M87 jet by Madrid, Juan P., Sparks, William B., Harris, D. E., Perlman, Eric S., Macchetto, Duccio, Biretta, John

“…Issue Title: Proceedings of the Fifth Stromlo Symposium: Disks, Winds and Jets - From Planets to Quasars Near-ultraviolet imaging with HST offers the best…”
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Deep Hubble space telescope ultraviolet imaging oftheM87jet by Madrid, Juan P, Sparks, William B, Harris, DE, Perlman, Eric S, Macchetto, Duccio, Biretta, John

“…Near-ultraviolet imaging with HST offers the best possible spatial resolution currently available for optical/UV astronomical imaging. The giant elliptical…”
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Face-on Dust Disks in Galaxies with Optical Jets by Sparks, William B, Baum, Stefi A, Biretta, John, Macchetto, F. Duccio, Martel, André R

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HST and Merlin Observations of 3C 264—A Laboratory for Jet Physics and Unified Schemes by Baum, Stefi A, O'Dea, Christopher P, Giovannini, Gabriele, Cotton, William B, Koff, Sigrid de, Feretti, Luigina, Golombek, Daniel, Lara, Lucas, Macchetto, Ferdinando D, Miley, G. K, Sparks, William B, Venturi, Tiziana, Komissarov, Serguei S

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Radiation Damage in Hubble Space Telescope Detectors by Sirianni, M., Mutchler, M., Gilliland, R., Biretta, J., Lucas, R.

“…The Hubble Space Telescope has been orbiting since April 1990. It is a unique laboratory for radiation damage studies for different detectors. We present some…”
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What can we learn about extragalactic jets from galactic jets? by Wiseman, Jennifer, Biretta, John

“…Jets are powerful features of extragalactic radio sources; yet jets are also seen in young stellar objects and X-ray binaries within our own galaxy. These…”
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Proper Motions of Jets on the Kiloparsec Scale: New Results with HST by Meyer, Eileen T, Sparks, William B, Georganopoulos, Markos, van der Marel, Roeland, Anderson, Jay, Sohn, Sangmo T, Biretta, John, Norman, Colin, Chiaberge, Marco, Perlman, Eric

“…Galaxies 2017, 5, 8 The Hubble Space Telescope recently celebrated 25 years of operation. Some of the first images of extragalactic optical jets were taken by…”
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An HST Proper-Motion Study of the Large-scale Jet of 3C273 by Meyer, Eileen T, Sparks, William B, Georganopoulos, Markos, Anderson, Jay, van der Marel, Roeland, Biretta, John, Sohn, Sangmo Tony, Chiaberge, Marco, Perlman, Eric, Norman, Colin

“…The radio galaxy 3C 273 hosts one of the nearest and best-studied powerful quasar jets. Having been imaged repeatedly by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) over…”
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ITALHubble Space Telescope[/ITALObservations of Globular Clusters in M87 and an Estimate of [ITALH[/ITAL[TINF0[/TINF by Whitmore, Bradley C., Sparks, William B., Lucas, Ray A., Macchetto, F. Duccio, Biretta, John A.

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Discovery of an Optical Synchrotron Jet in 3C 78 by Sparks, William B, Golombek, Daniel, Baum, Stefi A, Biretta, John, de Koff, Sigrid, Macchetto, Ferdinando, McCarthy, Patrick, Miley, George K

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