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Expected Number of Blue-shifts and Red-shifts of Ejected Sources

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IT has recently been suggested1 that the quasi-stellar radio sources are objects that have been ejected by relatively nearby peculiar galaxies. If their large red-shifts are due to the Doppler effect, we shall show that one would, in fact, expect to see many more objects with spectral shifts towards the blue than those with shifts towards the red.

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  1. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

    JOHN FAULKNER

  2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

    JAMES E. GUNN

  3. Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

    BRUCE A. PETERSON

  4. Peterhouse, Cambridge, England

    JOHN FAULKNER

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FAULKNER, J., GUNN, J. & PETERSON, B. Expected Number of Blue-shifts and Red-shifts of Ejected Sources. Nature 211, 502–503 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211502a0

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