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IN several of the recent discussions of pulsating radio sources, it is assumed that the distance of these objects is of the order of 100 pc or less. We wish to show that it is just as likely that these objects lie at distances at least 10 times greater.
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HABING, H., POTTASCH, S. Distances to the Pulsating Radio Sources. Nature 219, 1137 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2191137a0
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