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Power Spectrum Analysis of the Emission-Line Redshift Distribution of Quasi-stellar and Related Objects

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An analysis of a recent list of 186 redshifts indicates that, at best, only marginal importance can be attached to the periodicities in the redshift distribution that have been found by others.

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    S. H. PLAGEMANN, P. A. FELDMAN & J. R. GRIBBIN

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PLAGEMANN, S., FELDMAN, P. & GRIBBIN, J. Power Spectrum Analysis of the Emission-Line Redshift Distribution of Quasi-stellar and Related Objects. Nature 224, 875–876 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224875a0

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