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Abstract
Following the dramatic infrared to millimetre-wavelength flare seen in the quasar 3C273 during 19831, we have continued to monitor its overall continuum emission. Recent measurements show that the 10-µm to 3-mm emission has decayed to a level well below any seen previously2,3, while the 1–4-µm emission has remained relatively constant. This behaviour has revealed the presence of an apparently non-variable component which dominates the near-infrared emission in 3C273 and includes the small ‘bump’ at ~3.5 µm in the power-law continuum previously noted by Neugebauer et al. 3. The origin of this component is probably not thermal re-radiation by dust grains but may be due to free–free emission from very dense, broad-line clouds4.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Physics and Astronomy |
Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy |
Publisher: | Macmillan Publishers Ltd. |
ISSN: | 0028-0836 |
Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2017 04:18 |
URI: | http://orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/36385 |
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