Superluminal expansion of quasar 3C273
Abstract
Maps of the radio structure of 3C273 show directly that it expanded with an apparent velocity 10 times the speed of light from mid-1977 to at least mid-1980.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- April 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1038/290365a0
- Bibcode:
- 1981Natur.290..365P
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Maps;
- Quasars;
- Radial Velocity;
- Radio Astronomy;
- Relativistic Velocity;
- Brightness Temperature;
- Expansion;
- Plasma Jets;
- Very Long Base Interferometry;
- Astrophysics