View Single Post
  #32 (permalink)  
Old 14-May-2006, 09:16 AM
Nereid Nereid is offline
Order of Kilopi
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 10,943
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by VanderL
Why do you give an opinion before looking at it in detail?

Bell et al. show that the total redshift distribution shows a peak at z=0.7 (just like Tang et al did) and subtract the smoothed distribution from the raw data (the reverse of a selection bias is also a "bane of an astronomer's life"). The resulting peaks are strongly supporting Bell's (and Burbidge's) equation that was beased on a specific example of 14 QSO's around NGC 1068.
Btw, shouldn't this be discussed in the Arp et al. thread?

Cheers.
Before proceeding to challenge your claims here VanderL, I would like to hear whether you will be defending these or not.

In particular, your assertion that "The resulting peaks are strongly supporting Bell's (and Burbidge's) equation that was beased on a specific example of 14 QSO's around NGC 1068." (my bold)