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THE flux from the central region of the Crab Nebula in three broad spectral passbands with flux-weighted mean wavelengths of 300 µm, 400 µm, and 1 mm have been measured. We report here that the inferred total flux densities for the entire nebula (Table 1) are consistent with an extrapolation of the power law spectrum found at longer wavelengths1.
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WRIGHT, E., HARPER, D., HILDEBRAND, R. et al. Millimetre and submillimetre measurements of the Crab Nebula. Nature 279, 703–705 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/279703b0
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