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FOLLOWING the report of Dr. Frank D. Drake1, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, that Jupiter emits anomalously large amounts of continuum radiation in the vicinity of 21-cm. wavelength, observations of Jupiter were undertaken with the Harvard 60-ft. radio telescope. With the instrument used as a direct radiometer with a bandwidth of 2 Mc./sec. in the vicinity of 1,420 Mc./sec., a signal of amplitude several times the noise fluctuation was found in the expected position of Jupiter on most traces. The averages of at least five right-ascension drift curves were used to obtain the antenna temperatures given in Table 1. The probable error is less than 0.15° K.
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EPSTEIN, E. Anomalous Continuum Radiation from Jupiter. Nature 184, 52 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/184052a0
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