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The Extragalactic Radio Source Background

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

J. V. Wall*
Affiliation:
Royal Greenwich Observatory Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes Apartado 321, 38780 Santa Cruz de La Palma Tenerife, Spain

Abstract

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The background of discrete extragalactic radio sources is described from the point of view of its simplest properties: surface density and surface distribution. New considerations, particularly with regard to the latter, open the possibility of detecting Universal structure on many angular scales. At the same time, these considerations imply the need for greater sophistication in the interpretation of source counts and of the microwave background (MWBG) fluctuations.

Type
IV. Extragalactic Background Radiation and Cosmology
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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