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Radio Source Counts from the Ohio Survey

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The Ohio survey shows a decrease in the number of faint sources relative to the number which would be expected for a uniform, Euclidean universe. This confirms the results of the Cambridge 5C2 survey at 408 MHz, but the decrease is sharper for the Ohio counts at 1415 MHz.

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HARRIS, B., KRAUS, J. Radio Source Counts from the Ohio Survey. Nature 227, 785–788 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227785a0

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