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Percentage Number of Nonthermal Sources in the Northern and Southern Halves of the Galaxy

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COMPARISONS1,2 of continuum spectral indices with the presence or absence of radio recombination lines show that virtually all sources with no recombination lines have steep spectral indices, that is, are nonthermal.

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  1. W. J. ALTENHOFF and T. L. WILSON: At present at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, West Germany.

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ALTENHOFF, W., WILSON, T. Percentage Number of Nonthermal Sources in the Northern and Southern Halves of the Galaxy. Nature 225, 245–246 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225245b0

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