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Strittmatter, Faulkner and Walmesley1 have suggested that there is an anisotropy in the distribution of quasars with large red-shift over the sky, pointing out that most of those discovered to date fall in two regions near the galactic poles. In this communication we present evidence that this anisotropy may be merely an effect of observational selection.
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PENSTON, M., ROWAN-ROBINSON, G. Anisotropic Distribution of Quasars with Large Red-shift. Nature 213, 375–377 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213375a0
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