Compact Symmetric Objects. II. Confirmation of a Distinct Population of High-luminosity Jetted Active Galaxies

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Acknowledgement

We thank John Peacock for useful discussions. We thank the reviewer of this paper for many helpful suggestions that have clarified several important aspects of this work. We are grateful for the use of the CATS database of Verkhodanov et al. (2005), of the Special Astrophysical Observatory. This research has made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System Bibliographic Services. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This research has made use of data from the OVRO 40-m monitoring program (Richards et al. 2011), supported by private funding from the California Insitute of Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, and by NASA grants NNX08AW31G, NNX11A043G, and NNX14AQ89G and NSF grants AST-0808050, AST-1109911, and AST-1835400. This research has made use of data from the MOJAVE database that is maintained by the MOJAVE team (Lister et al. 2018). The MOJAVE program is supported by NASA-Fermi grant 80NSSC19K1579. This research has made use of the CIRADA cutout service at http://cutouts.cirada.ca, operated by the Canadian Initiative for Radio Astronomy Data Analysis (CIRADA). CIRADA is funded by a grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation 2017 Innovation Fund (Project 35999), as well as by the Provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, and Quebec, in collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada, the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. S.K. and K.T. acknowledge support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 771282. K.T. acknowledges support from the Foundation of Research and Technology—Hellas Synergy Grants Program through project POLAR, jointly implemented by the Institute of Astrophysics and the Institute of Computer Science. A.S. was supported by the NASA Contract NAS8-03060 to the Chandra X-ray Center.

This paper depended on a very large amount of VLBI data, almost all of which was taken with the Very Long Baseline Array. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.