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Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 1981. 19:
373-410
Copyright © 1981 by Annual Reviews. All
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Reprinted with kind permission from Annual Reviews, 4139 El
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K.I. Kellermann
National Radio
Astronomy Observatory, 1 Green Bank, West
Virginia 24944
I.I.K. Pauliny-Toth
Max-Planck
Institute fur Radioastronomie, 5300 Bonn 1, Federal Republic
of Germany
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- SOME BASIC RELATIONS
- SPECTRA
- Effect of Opacity
- Extensions of the Spectra to Infrared-Optical and
Shorter Wavelengths
- VARIABILITY
- Flux Density Variations
- Implications of the Observed Flux Density
Variations
- Polarization Variations
- Optical and Infrared Variability
- STRUCTURE
- Extended Sources
- Compact Sources
- STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS
- Stationary Sources
- Superluminal Sources
- Interpretation of Superluminal Motion
- SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
- SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
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with the National Science Foundation.