Distances of Quasars and Quasar‐like Galaxies: Further Evidence That Quasi‐stellar Objects May Be Ejected from Active Galaxies

If high-redshift QSOs are ejected from the nuclei of low-redshift galaxies,as some have claimed, a large portion of their redshift must be intrinsic(non-Doppler). If these intrinsic components have preferred values, redshiftswill tend to cluster around these preferred values and produce peaks in theredshift distribution. Doppler ejection and Hubble flow components will broadeneach peak. Because ejection velocities are randomly directed and Hubble flowcomponents are always positive, in this model all peaks are expected to show anasymmetry, extending further out in the red wing. If peaks are present showingthis predicted asymmetry, it can lead directly to an estimate of quasardistances. Using two quasar samples, one with high redshifts and one with low,it is shown here that not only do all peaks in these two redshift distributionsoccur at previously predicted preferred values, they also all show thepredicted extra extension in the red wing. For the low and high redshiftsamples the mean cosmological components are found to be z$_{c} \sim 0.024$ and$\sim 0.066$, respectively. The difference can be explained by the improveddetection limit of the high redshift sample. These results offer furtherevidence in favor of the model proposing that QSOs are ejected from activegalaxies.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journa