Quantized redshifts: A status report |
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Authors: | W M Napier B N G Guthrie |
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Institution: | (1) Armagh Observatory, College Hill, BT61 9DG Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK;(2) 5Arden Street, EH9 1BR Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
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Abstract: | The current status of a continuing programme of tests for redshift periodicity or ‘quantization’ of nearby bright galaxies
is described. So far the redshifts of over 250 galaxies with high-precision HI profiles have been used in the study. In consistently
selected sub-samples of the datasets of sufficient precision examined so far, the redshift distribution has been found to
be strongly quantized in the galactocentric frame of reference. The phenomenon is easily seen by eye and apparently cannot
be ascribed to statistical artefacts, selection procedures or flawed reduction techniques. Two galactocentric periodicities
have so far been detected, ∼ 71 .5km s-1 in the Virgo cluster, and ∼37. 5km s-1 for all other spiral galaxies within ∼ 2600km s-1. The formal confidence levels associated with these results are extremely high. |
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Keywords: | Galaxies: distances and redshifts spiral radio lines |
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