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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
We have found large amplitude intraday variability in the radio quasar PKS 0405–385 on timescales less than an hour. If intrinsic to the source, the inferred brightness temperature is TB ~ 1021 K, far exceeding the inverse Compton limit for a static synchrotron source. We argue that our data are in agreement with interstellar scintillations of a source component which is < 5μarcsec in size.