Redshift Quantization in the Lyman-alpha Forest and the Measurement of qo
| dc.contributor.author | Cocke, W. J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tifft, W. G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-05T18:24:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-06-05T18:24:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1988-12 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | APJ 346: 613-617 (Nov. 15, 1989) | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623916 | |
| dc.description.abstract | We present evidence for redshift quantization in the Lyman -a forest of several QSOs. The Ly -a data are at redshifts z from 1.89 to 3.74, and the theory of redshift quantization proposed by Cocke (1983, 1085) is used to scale the quantization interval (24.15 km s -') to these high redshift. The sealing depends on the deceleration parameter qo, and the quantization is present at a statistical significance of greater than 99% for qo = 1/2. This may be taken as confirming the inflationary model of the early history of the universe. The significance of the quantization is highest at go rs 0.48, and the width of the peak is about 0.03 . The result can also be seen as providing confirmatory evidence for both the theory of the redshift quantization and the above value of qo, but at a significance of only 03 %. The scenario proposed for the relativistic generalization of the theory is that of fermion wavefunctione and quantum operators in a background Riemannian spacetime satisfying Einstein's field equations. | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Preprints of the Steward Observatory #846 | en |
| dc.relation.url | http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1989ApJ...346..613C&db_key=AST&data_type=HTML&format=&high=3ed65e9cd019083 | en |
| dc.rights | Copyright © All Rights Reserved. | en |
| dc.source | Steward Observatory Parker Library SO QB 4 .S752 ARCH | en |
| dc.subject | Cosmology | en |
| dc.subject | Lyman Alpha radiation | en |
| dc.subject | Quasars | en |
| dc.subject | Redshift | en |
| dc.subject | Spectroscopy | en |
| dc.title | Redshift Quantization in the Lyman-alpha Forest and the Measurement of qo | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Univ Arizona, Steward Observ | en |
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| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-04-26T18:26:41Z | |
| html.description.abstract | We present evidence for redshift quantization in the Lyman -a forest of several QSOs. The Ly -a data are at redshifts z from 1.89 to 3.74, and the theory of redshift quantization proposed by Cocke (1983, 1085) is used to scale the quantization interval (24.15 km s -') to these high redshift. The sealing depends on the deceleration parameter qo, and the quantization is present at a statistical significance of greater than 99% for qo = 1/2. This may be taken as confirming the inflationary model of the early history of the universe. The significance of the quantization is highest at go rs 0.48, and the width of the peak is about 0.03 . The result can also be seen as providing confirmatory evidence for both the theory of the redshift quantization and the above value of qo, but at a significance of only 03 %. The scenario proposed for the relativistic generalization of the theory is that of fermion wavefunctione and quantum operators in a background Riemannian spacetime satisfying Einstein's field equations. |
