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Reexamination of the correlation of galaxies and QSO's

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It is shown that the correlation between the separation on the sky of certain QSO's and the nearest bright galaxy to them with the galaxy's redshift could be an artifact of the sampling procedure or small number statistics. The overall association between 3C QSO's and bright galaxies remains as suggestive, but not compelling, evidence for a physical relationship.

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  1. Peter D. Noerdlinger

    Present address: Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich., USA

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The first discovery of ‘quasi-stellar objects’ in a nearby galaxy appears to have been by Redman and Shirley (1937), in a different context.

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Noerdlinger, P.D. Reexamination of the correlation of galaxies and QSO's. Astrophys Space Sci 38, 457–468 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00647146

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