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THE inverse Compton effect has recently received attention as a possible source of the continuous radiation of quasi-stellar objects1–3. Hoyle et al.4 concluded that quasi-stellar objects cannot be at cosmological distances because otherwise the inverse Compton effect would force the electrons to dump their relativistic energies in times so short that no known acceleration mechanism could be responsible for their original appearance. Modifications of this argument have been discussed by several authors5–9, in particular by Woltjer10, who considered a radiation (and electron) flux restricted to a narrow cone about the radial direction.
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OSTER, L. New Restriction on Models for Quasistellar Objects. Nature 217, 148–149 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217148a0
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