Catalogue
of Discordant Redshift Associations(spiral bound paperback, 234 pages; ISBN 0-9683689-9-9)
Catalogue
of Discordant Redshift Associations
(spiral
bound paperback, 234 pages; ISBN 0-9683689-9-9)
Halton
Arp
High redshift quasars, low redshift ejecting galaxies, aligned X-ray clusters, gamma ray bursters, supposed gravitational lenses, quantized intrinsic redshifts -- this book presents examples of empirical patterns of associations that repeat from region to region in the sky, suggesting evolutionary sequences and new fundamental physics. Each catalogue entry furnishes critical objects for further investigation.
From
the Author’s introduction
From the Author’s Introduction
The Fundamental Patterns of Physical Associations
Empirical evidence which is repeatable forms the indispensable basis of science. The following Catalogue of Discordant Redshift Associations applies this principle to the problem of extragalactic redshifts. The Catalogue entries establish unequivocally that high redshift objects are often at the same distance as, and physically associated with, galaxies of much lower redshift. It is thus appropriate to start with a short history of high redshift quasars aligned with low redshift galaxies.
It has long been accepted that radio-emitting material is ejected, usually paired in opposite ejections, from active galaxies. The material is therefore aligned and points back to the galaxy of origin. But, and this is the major additional property of the associations, the ejected material frequently has a much higher redshift than the central galaxy. The prototypical pairs and alignments of higher redshift objects in this introductory section are taken from a body of data which is now too large to present completely. Nevertheless, it is hoped that the sample presented here will fix firmly the result that redshifts do not generally indicate recession velocity and are not reliable distance indicators. Even more importantly, the empirical data contained in these discordant associations is perhaps the only evidence capable of leading to a fundamental physical understanding of the origins of quasars and galaxies and the cause of intrinsic redshifts.
INTRODUCTION
The Fundamental Patterns of Physical Associations
Quasars
The 3C sample of Active Galaxies and Quasars
Ejection Origin of Quasars
Intrinsic Redshifts of Galaxies
Toward a More Correct Physics
THE CATALOGUE
About the Catalogue
What to Look For
Maps of Associations with Comments
APPENDIX A
The Neighborhood of the Nearby Galaxy M 101
The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
Conclusion
APPENDIX B
Filaments,
Clusters of Galaxies and
The Nature of Ejections from Galaxies
Elongated X-ray Clusters
Additional
Elongated Clusters Aligned with
Galaxies of Lower Redshift
Summary and Interpretation
Young Galaxies in Spiral Arms
A Bullet to a Gamma Ray Burst
A Quasar With an Ablation Tail
A Mechanism to Produce Galaxy Clusters
Glossary
INDEX
COLOUR PLATES
Halton Arp graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1949 and
earned a Ph.D. from Caltech in 1953 (also cum laude). His first postdoctoral
position was on a research project for Edwin Hubble. He worked as a staff
astronomer at Mt Wilson and Palomar Observatories for 29 years before moving to
Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics in Munich. Arp’s observations of quasars
and galaxies are world-renowned. He is the author of the
Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966: a collectors’ item), Quasars, Redshifts and
Controversies (1987), Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science
(1998), as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals. He has been awarded
the Helen B. Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society and the Newcomb
Cleveland award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and
served as president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific from 1980 to
1983. In 1984, he received the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award.