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There is a significant correlation between the distribution of the published emission-line redshifts of all quasars with two or more Unes in their spectra on a scale of 0.1 in redshift and the average number of lines in the spectra. This may be caused by a combination of night sky emission lines and the finite size of the atmospheric observing window, so that no cosmological (or other) significance should be assigned to the distribution.
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ROEDER, R., DYER, C. Probable Effects of the Terrestrial Atmosphere on Quasar Redshift Measurements. Nature Physical Science 235, 3–6 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci235003a0
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