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Nine Million Wavelength Baseline Interferometer Measurements of 3C 273B

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OBSERVATIONS on the angular dimensions of the variable radio source 3C 273B by Palmer et al.1 using effective baselines of up to 2 million wavelengths have reduced the upper limit on its angular size to 0.025 sec of arc at a wavelength of 6 cm. A recent observation using a trans-Canadian baseline indicates that the source is unresolved at an operating frequency of 600 Mc/s and an effective baseline of 6 million wavelengths.

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GUBBAY, J., ROBERTSON, D. Nine Million Wavelength Baseline Interferometer Measurements of 3C 273B. Nature 215, 1157–1158 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151157a0

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