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Inertial Confinement of Extended Radio Sources

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The confinement of extended radio sources may be a dynamic rather than a static process where the internal pressure of the source is balanced by the ram pressure of the intergalactic gas.

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  1. Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

    DAVID S. DEYOUNG

  2. Departments of Physics and Applied Electrophysics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California

    W. I. AXFORD

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DEYOUNG, D., AXFORD, W. Inertial Confinement of Extended Radio Sources. Nature 216, 129–131 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216129a0

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