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pith:2017:OPL6IDIFVBVLXKVYYUHOFWFPDD
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Cosmological investigation of multi-frequency VLBI observations of ultra-compact structure in $z\sim 3$ radio quasars

Jingzhao Qi, Marek Biesiada, Shuo Cao, Tengpeng Xu, Xiaogang Zheng, Xuan Ji, Yu Pan, Zong-Hong Zhu

arxiv:1708.08639 v2 · 2017-08-29 · astro-ph.CO

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73d7e40d05a86abbaab8c50ee2d8af18c83e9291be8570f23f6a24b16dec596e

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arxiv: 1708.08639 · arxiv_version: 1708.08639v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.08639 · pith_short_12: OPL6IDIFVBVL · pith_short_16: OPL6IDIFVBVLXKVY · pith_short_8: OPL6IDIF
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