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Since the realization in the 1950s that the majority of catalogued radio sources are extragalactic and that some of the strongest are at cosmological distances, the application of radio observations to cosmological studies has been a central theme in radio astronomy.

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Condon, J.J. (1988). Radio Sources and Cosmology. In: Verschuur, G.L., Kellermann, K.I. (eds) Galactic and Extragalactic Radio Astronomy. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3936-9_15

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