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Emission Regions in Centaurus A

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

R. M. Price  and
J. A. Graham
R. M. Price
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
J. A. Graham
Affiliation:
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

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Centaurus A, at an estimated distance of five megaparsecs, is the closest radio galaxy. It presents the best opportunity to examine in detail the physical mechanisms and resulting structures that are to be found in radio galaxies. Centaurus was first studied in detail at radio wavelengths by Cooper, Price and Cole (1965), hence CPC. Many of the comments, interpretations, and conclusions recorded in that paper remain valid today and provide the broader framework in which the more detailed studies using today's more powerful instrumentation can be understood. Historically, it is also interesting to note that Centaurus A was the first extragalactic radio source in which linear polarization and Faraday rotation were discovered and extensively studied.

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Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 97: Extragalactic Radio Sources , 1982 , pp. 115 - 116
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1982 

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