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Radio structures of the nuclei of nearby Seyfert galaxies and the nature of the missing diffuse emission

We present archival high-spatial-resolution VLA and VLBA data of the nuclei of seven of the nearest and brightest Seyfert galaxies in the Southern Hemisphere. At VLA resolution (∼0.1 arcsec), the nuclei of the Seyfert galaxies are unresolved, with the exception of MCG-5-23-16 and NGC 7469, which sho...

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Published in:Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2010-02, Vol.401 (4), p.2599-2610
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