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Redshifts of New Galaxies
Observations increasingly demonstrate the spatial association of high
redshift objects with larger, low redshift galaxies. These companion objects
show a continuous range of physical properties - from very compact, high
redshift quasars, through smaller active galaxies and finally to only slightly
smaller companion galaxies of slightly higher redshift. The shift in energy
distribution from high to low makes it clear that are seeing an empirical
evolution from newly created to older, more normal galaxies.
In order to account for the evolution of intrinsic redshift we must conclude
that matter is initially born with low mass particles whose mass increase with
time (age). This requires a physics which is non-local (Machian) and which is
therefore more applicable to the cosmos than the Big Bang extrapolation of
local physics. Ambartsumian's "superfluid" foresaw some of the properties of
the new, low particle mass, protogalactic plasma which is required,
demonstrating again the age-old lesson that open minded observation is much
more powerful than theoretical assumptions.
Since the ejected plasma, which preferentially emerges along the minor axis
of the parent galaxy, develops into an entire galaxy, accretion disks cannot
supply sufficient material. New matter must be created within a "white hole"
rather than bouncing old matter off a "black hole".Comment: Invited review talk at the 194th IAU Symp. on "Activity in galaxies
and related phenomena", held in Byurakan, Armenia, August 17-21, 1998, Eds.
Y.Terzian, E.Khachikian, and D.Weedman, PASP Conf. Series, in pres
Origins of Quasars and Galaxy Clusters
The distribution on the sky of clusters of galaxies shows significant
association with relatively nearby, large, active galaxies. The pattern is that
of clusters paired equidistant across a central galaxy with the apparent
magnitudes and redshifts of their constituent galaxies being closely matched.
The clusters and the galaxies in them tend to be strong X-ray and radio
emitters and their redshifts occur at preferred redshift values. The central,
low redshift galaxies often show evidence of ejection in the direction of these
higher redshift clusters and the clusters often show elongation along these
lines. In most of these respects the clusters resemble quasars which have been
increasingly shown for the last 34 years to be similarly associated with active
parent galaxies. It is argued here that, empirically, the quasars are ejected
from active galaxies. They evolve to lower redshift with time, fragmenting at
the end of their development into clusters of low luminosity galaxies. The
cluster galaxies can be at the same distance as their lower redshift parents
because they still retain a component of their earlier, quasar intrinsic
redshift.Comment: to be electronically publshed as XXXVI Recontres de Moriond, 200
The Surroundings of Disturbed, Active Galaxies
The brightest apparent magnitude examples of ultra luminous infrared galaxies
(ULIRG's) are studied here in X-ray, optical, infrared and radio wavelengths.
It is is found that they have associated material reaching out to apparent
diameters of the order of a degree on the sky.
Gas, dust, X-ray material and quasars appear to be ejected from the active
nuclei with all objects nearer than their redshift distances.Comment: 14 pages, Figs. 1-28 jpg and gif file
Against the Tide. A Critical Review by Scientists of How Physics and Astronomy Get Done
Nobody should have a monopoly of the truth in this universe. The censorship and suppression of challenging ideas against the tide of mainstream research, the blacklisting of scientists, for instance, is neither the best way to do and filter science, nor to promote progress in the human knowledge. The removal of good and novel ideas from the scientific stage is very detrimental to the pursuit of the truth. There are instances in which a mere unqualified belief can occasionally be converted into a generally accepted scientific theory through the screening action of refereed literature and meetings planned by the scientific organizing committees and through the distribution of funds controlled by "club opinions". It leads to unitary paradigms and unitary thinking not necessarily associated to the unique truth. This is the topic of this book: to critically analyze the problems of the official (and sometimes illicit) mechanisms under which current science (physics and astronomy in particular) is being administered and filtered today, along with the onerous consequences these mechanisms have on all of us.\ud
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The authors, all of them professional researchers, reveal a pessimistic view of the miseries of the actual system, while a glimmer of hope remains in the "leitmotiv" claim towards the freedom in doing research and attaining an acceptable level of ethics in science
QSOs Associated with Messier 82
The starburst / AGN galaxy M82 was studied by Dahlem, Weaver and Heckman
using X-ray data from ROSAT and ASCA, as part of their X-ray survey of edge-on
starburst galaxies. They found seventeen unresolved hard-X-ray sources around
M82, in addition to its strong nuclear source, and other X-rays within the main
body of M82. We have measured optical point sources at these positions, and
have obtained redshifts of six candidates at the Keck I 10-m telescope, using
the low-resolution imaging spectrograph (LRIS). All six are highly compact
optical and X-ray objects with redshifts ranging from 0.111 to 1.086. They all
show emission lines. The three with the highest redshifts are clearly QSOs. The
others with lower redshifts may either be QSOs or compact emission-line
galaxies. In addition to these six there are nine QSOs lying very close to M82
which were discovered many years ago. There is no difference between optical
spectra of these latter QSOs, only two of which are known to be X-ray sources,
and the X-ray emitting QSOs. The redshifts of all fifteen range between 0.111
and 2.05. The large number of QSOs and their apparent association with ejected
matter from M82 suggest that they are physically associated with the galaxy,
and have large intrinsic redshift components. If this is correct, the absolute
magnitudes lie in the range -8 < M_v < -10. Also we speculate that the luminous
variable X-ray source which has been detected by Chandra in the main body of
M82 some 9 arcseconds from the center is another QSO in the process of ejection
from the nucleus, and propose some observational tests of this hypothesis.Comment: 16 pages aastex, 3 eps figures, accepted for publication on Ap