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IN a previous letter1 we showed that in a sample of thirty identified quasi-stellar objects no sensible correlation exists between red-shifts z and radio fluxes S, though a log N–log S plot of these same objects gives a slope compatible with the usual radio source counts. We therefore stated: “Thus if we adopt the usual distance–volume interpretation of the result NS3/2 ≈ constant, we must conclude that the red-shifts have nothing to do with the distance”. A number of authors have criticized this conclusion2–4, not on the basis of our actual statement, but apparently on what the authors have read into our letter on their own account. Thus Longair2 begins: “Hoyle and Burbidge have recently examined the red-shifts of a number of quasi-stellar radio sources, and have plotted their radio flux densities (S) against red-shift (z); they conclude that the results are inconsistent with a cosmological interpretation of these red-shifts”.
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HOYLE, F., BURBIDGE, G. Relation between the Red-shifts of Quasi-stellar Objects and their Radio Magnitudes. Nature 212, 1334 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121334a0
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