TANAMI
TANAMI (Tracking Active Galactic Nuclei with Austral Milliarcsecond
Interferometry) is a new program to image and monitor the parsec-scale
structures of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) of the
Southern Hemisphere with the LBA. Complementary to existing programs
in the Northern Hemisphere (e.g., MOJAVE), TANAMI is tracking the jets
of sources south of -30 degrees declination with milliarcsecond
resolution at 8.4GHz and 22GHz. TANAMI observations are being
conducted every two months which started in November 2007 providing
dense sampling of fast superluminal moving jet features. This sampling
rate allows us to observe 40 sources through 2008 and to add up to 80
additional sources at optimized observing cadences in subsequent
years. Moreover, it enables us to react quickly to transient events
and to begin follow-up observations of sources of special interest, in
particular blazars found by Fermi
to be flaring at gamma-rays.
