No Periodicities in 2dF Redshift Survey Data
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We have used the publicly available data from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey and the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey to test the hypothesis that there is a periodicity in the redshift distribution of quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) found projected close to foreground galaxies. These data provide by far the largest and most homogeneous sample for such a study, yielding 1647 QSO-galaxy pairs. There is no evidence for a periodicity at the predicted frequency in log(1+z), or at any other frequency.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0208117,
title = {No Periodicities in 2dF Redshift Survey Data},
author = {E. Hawkins and S. J. Maddox and M. R. Merrifield},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0208117},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures, MNRAS accepted