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Halton Arp’s Universe

Halton Arp’s Universe. A lighthearted stroll through an alternative cosmology. GAAC, Spring 2010. Tonight’s Program:. Introducing Halton Arp Redshift Seeing is Believing Gravitational Lensing Point Spread Function. Tonight’s Program:. Introducing Halton Arp Redshift Seeing is Believing

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Halton Arp’s Universe

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  1. Halton Arp’s Universe A lighthearted stroll through an alternative cosmology GAAC, Spring 2010

  2. Tonight’s Program: • Introducing Halton Arp • Redshift • Seeing is Believing • Gravitational Lensing • Point Spread Function

  3. Tonight’s Program: • Introducing Halton Arp • Redshift • Seeing is Believing • Gravitational Lensing • Point Spread Function

  4. Tonight’s Program: • Introducing Halton Arp • Redshift • Seeing is Believing • Gravitational Lensing • Point Spread Function

  5. Tonight’s Program: • Introducing Halton Arp • Redshift • Seeing is Believing • Gravitational Lensing • Point Spread Function

  6. Tonight’s Program: • Introducing Halton Arp • Redshift • Seeing is Believing • Gravitational Lensing • Point Spread Function

  7. “There is now a fashionable set of beliefs regarding the workings of the universe, greatly publicized as the Big Bang, which I believe is wildly incorrect”. “But in order to enable people to make their own judgments about this question, we need to examine a large number of observations. Observations in science are the primary and final authority.” Arp, Seeing Red

  8. A quasi-stellar radio source (quasar) is a very energetic and distant galaxy with an active galactic nucleus. They are the most luminous objects in the universe. Quasars were first identified as high- redshift point sources. This means that they are very distant.

  9. Arp has photographs of many pairs of high redshift quasars that are symmetrically located on either side of what he insists are their parent, low redshift galaxies.  He claims that these pairings occur much more often than the probabilities of random placement would allow.

  10. Tonight’s Program: • Introducing Halton Arp • Redshift • Seeing is Believing • Gravitational Lensing • Point Spread Function

  11. Continuous Spectrum Absorption Lines

  12. The relativistic Doppler formula (where v is expressed as a fraction of the speed of light, v/c) is expressed as- z = ,/ 1 + v/c  - 1          1 -  v/c which provides this equation- v/c = (z + 1)^2  - 1         (z + 1)^2 + 1  therefore if z = 0.05 v/c = (0.05 + 1)^2  - 1 = 0.04875 of c         (0.05 + 1)^2 + 1

  13. NGC3516 – Seyfert Galaxy

  14. Tonight’s Program: • Introducing Halton Arp • Redshift • Seeing is Believing • Gravitational Lensing • Point Spread Function

  15. “Objects which appear young are aligned on either side of eruptive objects. This implies ejection of protogalaxies.” •  ”The youngest objects appear to have the highest redshifts. This implies that intrinsic redshift decreases as the object ages.” • “As distance from the ejecting central object increases, the quasars increase in brightness and decrease in redshift. This implies that the ejected objects evolve as they travel outward.” * Arp, Seeing Red

  16. Arp 92

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