College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
8C20.60 - Quasars
Telescope images of Quasars can be found on a variety of websites.
- Amos Harpaz, "More on Superluminal Velocities", TPT, Vol. 35, #1, Jan. 1997, p. 5.
- Amos Harpaz, "Superluminal Velocities in Astronomy?", TPT, Vol. 34, #8, Nov. 1996, p. 496.
- Denise C. Gabuzda, "The Use of Quasars in Teaching Introductory Special Relativity", AJP, Vol. 55, #3, Mar. 1987, p. 214.
- Kurtiss J. Gordon, "The Doppler Effect: A Consideration of Quasar Redshifts", AJP, Vol. 48, #7, July 1980, p. 514.
- T. Díaz-Santos, R. J. Assef, A. W. Blain, M. Aravena, D. Stern , C.-W. Tsai, P. Eisenhardt, J. Wu, H. D. Jun, K. Dibert, H. Inami, G. Lansbury, F. Leclercq, "The Multiple Merger Assembly of a Hyperluminous Obscured Quasar at Redshift 4.6", Science, Vol. 362, #6418, Nov. 2018, p. 1035.
- Maarten Schmidt and Francis Bello, "The Evolution of Quasars", Scientific American, Vol. 224, #5, May 1971, p. 54, and also in Scientific American Cosmology +1, "#6, The Evolution of Quasars", Sept. 1967, p. 43. See the Lecture Demo Reference Library in Rm. 58 for this reference.
- Dennis Sciama, "Review: Cosmology Before and After Quasars", Scientific American, Vol. 217, #3, Sep. 1967, p. 293, and also in Scientific American Cosmology +1, "#4, Cosmology Before and After Quasars", Sept. 1967, p. 31. See the Lecture Demo Reference Library in Rm. 58 for this reference.
- "Most Luminous Object", Guinness Book of World Records, 2003, p. 71.
- Physics History, "February 5, 1963: Maarten Schmidt Discovers First Known Quasar", APS News, Vol. 30, #2, Feb. 2021, p. 2.
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