High frequency radio observations of the nucleus of Cen A

Abstract

Cen A (NGC5128) is a giant radio galaxy that in several ways behaves like a weak active galactic nucleus. It presents three pairs of radio lobes and a compact core with a one sided jet (Jauncey et al. 1995). The compact core is highly variable in wavelengths ranging from the radio region to X and γ rays (Kinzer et al. 1995). In the radio domain, the emission from the core dominates at high frequencies and a considerable effort was made to study variability at 22 and 43 GHz for more than ten years (Botti & Abraham 1995).