Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...20910804w&link_type=abstract
2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #108.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
A collaborative relationship existed between the California Institute of Technology(Caltech) and the Carnegie Institution of Washington (Carnegie) beginning in 1946, when a formal agreement was made between the two groups of trustees. This agreement was designed to integrate Mount Wilson Observatory with the new unfinished Palomar Observatory into a single scientific entity. During the period from 1946 to 1979, much astronomical research was done at both institutions as a direct result of this collaboration. Part of this research included the first identification of a radio source with an apparently stellar object by Allan Sandage of Carnegie and Thomas Matthews of Caltech in 1960, and the first identification of the spectral lines from a radio source associated with such an object by Maarten Schmidt of Caltech in 1963. This paper examines how the discovery of these objects, which came to be known as quasars, and the subsequent research on these objects, impacted the relationship between Caltech and Carnegie, such that the relationship was formally dissolved in 1980. In this paper, the controversy surrounding the discovery and the interpretation of quasars is examined to provide further understanding about the working relationship when the two institutions were formally collaborating. Some of the data used in this paper were drawn from interviews of the researchers themselves, and this research forms part of a dissertation for a PhD degree from James Cook University in Townsville, Australia.
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