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Compact Radio Sources

Compact Radio Sources is a class of astrophysical radio sources characterized by their small angular size and high brightness temperature, distinguished from extended radio sources by their emission originating from highly localized, dense regions often associated with active galactic nuclei or compact stellar remnants.

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The Morphology of Extragalactic Radio Sources of High and Low Luminosity

B. L. Fanaroff, J. M. Riley · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1974 · 2.8K citations

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Relativistic jets as compact radio sources

R. D. Blandford, Arieh Königl · The Astrophysical Journal · 1979 · 2K citations

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Theory of extragalactic radio sources

Mitchell C. Begelman, R. D. Blandford, M. J. Rees · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1984 · 1.7K citations

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First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Physical Origin of the Asymmetric Ring

Kazunori Akiyama, A. Alberdi, W. Alef et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2019 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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Models for high-frequency radio outbursts in extragalactic sources, with application to the early 1983 millimeter-to-infrared flare of 3C 273

Alan P. Marscher, W. K. Gear · The Astrophysical Journal · 1985 · 1.2K citations

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  1. AC
    A. C. S. Readhead

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    30 publications · 3.7K citations

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  2. KM
    K. M. Menten

    Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany

    25 publications · 3K citations

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  3. JA
    J. A. Zensus

    Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany

    25 publications · 3.6K citations

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  4. RM
    R. Morganti

    Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Netherlands

    29 publications · 1.5K citations

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  5. TJ
    T. J. Pearson

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    26 publications · 2.9K citations

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  1. National Radio Astronomy Observatory

    Charlottesville, United States

    72 h-index

    340 publications

    29.2K citations

  2. Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

    Bonn, Germany

    55 h-index

    459 publications

    70.6K citations

  3. Istituto di Radioastronomia di Bologna

    Bologna, Italy

    48 h-index

    303 publications

    16.3K citations

  4. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    47 h-index

    263 publications

    30.1K citations

  5. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    47 h-index

    322 publications

    52.7K citations

  6. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

    Canberra, Australia

    44 h-index

    240 publications

    15.1K citations

  7. Leiden University

    Leiden, The Netherlands

    42 h-index

    158 publications

    16.6K citations

  8. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    42 h-index

    309 publications

    24.7K citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 534 publications · 36K citations

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  2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    353 publications · 20K citations

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  3. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 140 publications · 7.1K citations

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  4. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    158 publications · 8.4K citations

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  5. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

    42 publications · 3.7K citations

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