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The Importance of Accurate Positions in the QSO Story

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

H.S. Murdoch
H.S. Murdoch*
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School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
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Who discovered QSOs? What was the first QSO discovered? To Maarten Schmidt (1963) goes the credit for realising that the emission lines he saw in a 13 mag star were the Balmer series in hydrogen at a redshift of 0.158. The first QSO had been recognised. But discovery is a complex process. Schmidt observed the ‘star’ because it was associated with a radio source 3C 273 by means of an accurate radio position. This was the first of several instances where accurate radio positions have enabled significant progress in the QSO story.

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History of Australian Astronomy
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , 1993 , pp. 346 - 348
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1993

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