PROBING THE INNERMOST REGIONS OF AGN JETS AND THEIR MAGNETIC FIELDS WITH RADIOASTRON. I. IMAGING BL LACERTAE AT 21 μas RESOLUTION

This research has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness grant AYA2013-40825-P, by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (projects 13-02-12103, 14-02-31789, and 15-02-00949), and St. Petersburg University research grant 6.38.335.2015. The research at Boston University (BU) was funded in part by NASA Fermi Guest Investigator grant NNX14AQ58G. Y.M. acknowledges support from the ERC Synergy Grant >BlackHoleCam-Imaging the Event Horizon of Black Holes> (Grant 610058). Part of this work was supported by the COST Action MP1104 >Polarization as a tool to study the Solar System and beyond.> The RadioAstron project is led by the Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Lavochkin Scientific and Production Association under a contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency, in collaboration with partner organizations in Russia and other countries.

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