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One of the most fascinating phenomena associated with the topic of astrophysical jets is the observation of apparent faster-than-light (“superluminal”) motions in the cores of some extragalactic objects. A thorough review of the subject was given at the I.A.U. Symposium No. 97 in Albuquerque last year (Cohen and Unwin, 1982). Since then a number of papers have been published, reporting in detail the most recent observational results on individual objects (Porcas, 1981; Marscher and Broderick, 1982; Phillips and Mutel, 1982; Walker et al., 1982). Here I wish to give a progress report on one of the objects - 3C179 - and discuss the significance of the fact that most of its flux density at around 1 GHz comes from extended, double radio lobes.
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Porcas, R.W. (1983). Recent Observations of Superluminal Sources. In: Ferrari, A., Pacholczyk, A.G. (eds) Astrophysical Jets. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 103. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7186-8_4
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