Quantized Redshift and its significance for recent observations

TL;DR

This paper investigates the periodicity in quasar redshifts using SVD analysis on SDSS and 2dF data, revealing fundamental periodicities that challenge conventional interpretations of redshift.

Contribution

It introduces a SVD-based method for detecting redshift periodicities and reports new fundamental periodicities in quasar-galaxy data, suggesting intrinsic components in redshift.

Findings

Detected a 0.051 linear scale periodicity in SDSS DR7 data.

Found 0.077 and 0.089 log scale periodicities in 2dF and SDSS data.

Supports the hypothesis of intrinsic redshift components.

Abstract

With the recent observational evidence in extra galactic astronomy, the interpretation of the nature of quasar redshift continues to be a research interest. Very high redshifts are being detected for extragalactic objects that are presumably very distant and young while also exhibiting properties that are characteristic of a more mature galaxy such as ours. According to Halton Arp and Geoffrey Burbidge, redshift disparities consist of an intrinsic component and are related to an evolutionary process. Karlsson observed redshift periodicity at integer multiples of 0.089 in log scale and Burbidge observed redshift periodicity at integer multiples of 0.061 in linear scale. Since Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) based periodicity estimation is known to be superior for noisy data sets, especially when the data contains multiple harmonics and overtones, mainly irregular in nature, we have chosen it to be our primary tool for analysis of the quasar-galaxy pair redshift data. We have observed a fundamental periodicity of 0.051 with a confidence interval of 95% in linear scale with the site-available Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 7 (SDSS DR7) quasar-galaxy pair data set. We have independently generated quasar-galaxy pair data sets from both 2dF and SDSS and found fundamental periodicities of 0.077 and 0.089 in log scale with a confidence interval of 95%.