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Paper: Spectral ageing: a new age perspective
Volume: 250, Particles and Fields in Radio Galaxies
Page: 363
Authors: Blundell, Katherine M.; Rawlings, Steve
Abstract: We present an up-to-date critique of the physical basis for the spectral ageing method. We find that the number of cases where this method may be meaningfully applied to deduce the ages of classical double radio sources is small indeed. This critique is much more than merely a re-expression of anxieties about the calibration of spectral ageing (which have been articulated by others in the past).
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