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IT has been shown that the log N/log S curve for radiosources of high galactic latitude is a straight line with a slope of − 1.85 ± 0.05—at least for fluxes greater than 9 × 10−26 W m−2 (c/s)−1 at 178 Mc/s (ref. 1). (N is the number of sources brighter than the flux S.)
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VÉRON, P. Counts of Radiosources in the Revised 3 C Catalogue. Nature 211, 724–725 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211724a0
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