Abstract
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.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics
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