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Science 23 March 1984:
Vol. 223. no. 4642, pp. 1255 - 1259
DOI: 10.1126/science.223.4642.1255
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Quasars and Gravitational Lenses

Edwin L. Turner 1

1 Associate professor of astrophysical sciences, Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, New Jersey 08544.

Despite the expenditure of large amounts of telescope time and other resources, most of the fundamental questions concerning quasi-stellar objects (quasars) remain unanswered. A complex phenomenology of radio, infrared, optical, and x-ray properties has accumulated but has not yielded even a satisfactory classification system. The large red shifts (distances) of quasars make them very valuable tools for studying cosmology and the properties of intervening matter in the Universe through observations of absorption lines and gravitational lenses.

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