arXiv:2306.04053astro-ph.CO
Detection of the Cosmological Time Dilation of High Redshift Quasars
Abstract
A fundamental prediction of relativistic cosmologies is that, due to the expansion of space, observations of the distant cosmos should be time dilated and appear to run slower than events in the local universe. Whilst observations of cosmological supernovae unambiguously display the expected redshift-dependent time dilation, this has not been the case for other distant sources. Here we present the identification of cosmic time dilation in a sample of 190 quasars monitored for over two decades in multiple wavebands by assessing various hypotheses through Bayesian analysis. This detection counters previous claims that observed quasar variability lacked the expected redshift-dependent time dilation. Hence, as well as demonstrating the claim that the lack of the redshift dependence of quasar variability represents a significant challenge to the standard cosmological model, this analysis further indicates that the properties of quasars are consistent with them being truly cosmologically distant sources.
Free research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04053
adrian_bView on HNParent context
Your question about pulsars is a good one and I'll answer it first, but the study at the top is about quasars, and I'll address that further below. With one exception all known pulsars are in the Milky Way; they are too intrinsically dim (and obscured by dust, much of which is…
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> I don't have access to the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04053 Someone usually posts up a preprint in discussions where the original link is a summary put out by one of the authors' institutions' public relations department and published unchanged or made even worse by some…
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