Periodicity in quasar redshifts or selection effects?

✍ Scribed by D. Basu

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 111 KB
• Volume: 320
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-6337
• DOI: 10.1002/1521-3994(199905)320:2<53::aid-asna53>3.0.co;2-k

✦ Synopsis

Peaks at high redshifts in individual samples of quasars can be explained as due to selection effects. It is concluded that peaks in quasar redshift distribution do not obey any general formula that can constitute a periodicity, even though individual samples may favour some redshifts of smaller values, viz. z < 1.