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Relativistic astrophysics—A report on the Second Texas Symposium

JUL 01, 1965

DOI: 10.1063/1.3047540

I. Robinson
A. Schild
E. L. Schucking

Scientists of 1965 see the universe with diverse eyes. They look with the two‐hundred‐inch pyrex mirror on top of Mount Palomar, with a hundred thousand gallons of cleaning fluid buried more than a mile underground, with scintillation counters flying in rockets and satellites, with a retina covering several square miles of the New Mexico desert at Volcano Ranch, with a steel bowl two hundred and ten feet across at Parkes in Australia, and with a gently swinging aluminum bar in Maryland, waiting patiently for the tremor of a gravitational wave.

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I. Robinson. Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, Dallas.

A. Schild. University of Texas, Austin.

E. L. Schucking. University of Texas, Austin.

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Volume 18, Number 7

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