Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies

Contests the 'establishment' view of quasars as the most distant objects in the universe.

Halton C. Arp (Author)

9780521363143, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 September 1988

208 pages
23.4 x 16.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.46 kg

For twenty years, the author has contested the 'establishment' view of quasars as the most distant objects in the universe. In this book, Arp presents the original observations and fundamental data on quasars and galaxies, and explains why he has concluded that: far from being the most distant objects in the universe, quasars are associated in space with relatively nearby galaxies; quasars' enormous redshifts do not arise from the expansion of the universe, but rather are intrinsic properties of the quasars themselves; many galaxies show redshift anomalies related to quasars' redshifts; quasars and galaxies have an origin far different from that assumed in the 'standard' big-bang model of the universe; many astronomers, despite the accumulation of compelling evidence, defend what Arp believes is a fundamentally incorrect assumption about cosmic objects.

Introduction
1. Distance of quasars
2. The battle over statistics
3. Galaxies visibly connected to quasars
4. Certain galaxies with many quasars
5. Distribution of quasars in space
6. Galaxies with excess redshift
7. Small excess redshifts, the local group of galaxies, and quantization of redshifts
8. Correcting intrinsic redshifts and identifying hydrogen clouds within nearby groups of galaxies
9. Ejection from galaxies
10. The sociology of the controversy
11. Interpretations
Glossary
Index.

Subject Areas: Cosmology & the universe [PGK]