Further information about the papers:
Indications of a Spatial Variation of the Fine Structure Constant John K. Webb, Julian A. King, Michael T. Murphy, Victor V. Flambaum, Robert F. Carswell, Matthew B. Bainbridge, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 191101, 2011. (http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/ http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3907)
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Spatial variation in the fine-structure constant - new results from VLT/UVES Julian A. King, John K. Webb, Michael T. Murphy, Victor V. Flambaum, Robert F. Carswell, Matthew B. Bainbridge, Michael R. Wilczynska, F. Elliot Koch. Accepted for publication in MNRAS.(http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4758)