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Common lines in the rest-frame absorption-line spectra of QSOs?

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Libbyet al. (1984) have studied the absorption-line data for 13 QSOs in the rest-frames of the QSOs. It is shown that the number of groups in which 5 lines or more lie within a wavelength interval of 1.0 Å found by these authors is insignificantly different from that that would be expected from chance coincidences. Consequently, there is no evidence that the rest-frame wavelengths at which these groups occur have any special significance.

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    Y. P. Varshni & David Singh

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Varshni, Y.P., Singh, D. Common lines in the rest-frame absorption-line spectra of QSOs?. Astrophys Space Sci 109, 149–153 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00651022

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