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A galaxy associated with 3C273

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THE first OSO for which the redshift was determined, 3C273, has been regarded as the archetypal QSO by astronomers and the public alike. Its importance, however, is not purely symbolic: it is the brightest OSO (and, consequently, one of the best studied); its intrinsic luminosity is nearly an order of magnitude greater than that of any other QSO in its redshift range; it is the only solidly confirmed X-ray source1 among QSOs; and it is one of the half-dozen or so well-documented superluminal expansion VLB I radio sources2. In many ways, 3C273 epitomises the difficulties that led to suggestions that QSO redshifts might not have a cosmological origin. I report here the discovery of a galaxy associated with 3C273.

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STOCKTON, A. A galaxy associated with 3C273. Nature 274, 342–343 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/274342a0

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