Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jun 1979
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Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters to the Editor, vol. 230, June 1, 1979, p. L63-L65.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Galactic Radiation, Hubble Diagram, Red Shift, Astrometry, Distance, Velocity Distribution
Scientific paper
This paper directly examines the claims of Segal (1976) that the (m,z) Hubble diagram is fitted best by a square law z = Kr-squared rather than by the traditional Hubble law z = Hr in the low-redshift range, z no more than about 0.01, corresponding to galaxies brighter than 14th mag. Segal attempts to fit a distance relation to the (m,z) scatter diagram in which each individual galaxy is plotted. The exact relation between the mean redshift for all galaxies in a small magnitude interval and the apparent magnitude is calculated. This relation is independent of luminosity function and peculiar velocity distribution about the general expansion, and is not affected by sample incompleteness as a function of apparent magnitude or the clustering of galaxies in the sample. Segal's method is affected by all of these and requires a highly sophisticated statistical analysis to deal with the non-Gaussian pointwise scatter. The present analysis favors the Hubble law and conclusively rules out the square law for the small redshift region.
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