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Dent and Balonek1 recently reported a large outburst in the radio source OV – 236 (=1921 – 293). We have made optical observations of the associated optical object, and report here that it has a high degre of linear polarization, optically variability of ∼1 mag in 25 days, and an emission-line spectrum at a redshift z = 0.3525. It thus belongs to the small class of extragalactic objects whose properties are intermediate between those of ‘classical’ QSOs and BL Lac objects.
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Wills, D., Wills, B. Optical observations of OV – 236. Nature 289, 384–386 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/289384a0
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