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Quasar Mass-Luminosity High Mass Turnoff Evolution and a Synchronization Puzzle
It is unusual that a generation of researchers has the opportunity to completely rewrite, to replace major established scientific theories.
The observation that quasars are turning on and off, at a specific mass to limit luminosity and to limit mass, with redshift, is a paradox not a puzzle. The observations cannot be physically explained by the current quasar model. There are now sets of published papers that present independent observations that cannot be explained by a hierarchical cosmological model and it is specifically stated in the paper that the observations cannot be explained by a hierarchical model. (I will over the next few months present the papers in separate threads.)
This observational analysis is supportive of Hawkins’ three published papers that assert that quasars do not exhibit time dilation. All cosmologically distant time varying objects must exhibit dilation as the universe is expanding and a relative high velocity difference between observers must in accordance with special and general relativity cause time dilation. Quasars in addition to not exhibiting time dilation with redshift and do not exhibit evolution of metallicity with redshift. Quasar spectrum has solar or super solar metallicity which is consistent with the assertion that quasars are not distant objects. There is redshift evolution in metallicity in galaxies. As quasars most commonly have a host galaxy, quasar spectrum should exhibit evolution of metallicity, if quasars are distant objects, as the gas that feeds the quasar is host galaxy gas.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3155v1
It is unusual that a generation of researchers has the opportunity to completely rewrite, to replace major established scientific theories.
The observation that quasars are turning on and off, at a specific mass to limit luminosity and to limit mass, with redshift, is a paradox not a puzzle. The observations cannot be physically explained by the current quasar model. There are now sets of published papers that present independent observations that cannot be explained by a hierarchical cosmological model and it is specifically stated in the paper that the observations cannot be explained by a hierarchical model. (I will over the next few months present the papers in separate threads.)
This observational analysis is supportive of Hawkins’ three published papers that assert that quasars do not exhibit time dilation. All cosmologically distant time varying objects must exhibit dilation as the universe is expanding and a relative high velocity difference between observers must in accordance with special and general relativity cause time dilation. Quasars in addition to not exhibiting time dilation with redshift and do not exhibit evolution of metallicity with redshift. Quasar spectrum has solar or super solar metallicity which is consistent with the assertion that quasars are not distant objects. There is redshift evolution in metallicity in galaxies. As quasars most commonly have a host galaxy, quasar spectrum should exhibit evolution of metallicity, if quasars are distant objects, as the gas that feeds the quasar is host galaxy gas.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3155v1
The Quasar Mass-Luminosity Plane II: High Mass Turnoff Evolution and a Synchronization Puzzle
3 - MASSIVE QUASARS ARE TURNING OFF
As shown in Table 1, both the maximum luminosity and the maximum mass of the quasar locus are monotonically decreasing towards lower redshift. Figure 1 hints the same might be true of the average luminosities and masses of the quasar populations in each bin. While it has been observed that individual quasars have variable luminosity (Mathews & Sandage 1963), we know of no mechanism by which the central black hole can substantially reduce its mass. Therefore, we must interpret Figure 1 as showing us that the most massive quasars in any cosmological epoch are in the midst of disappearing.
5 - A SYNCHRONIZATION PUZZLE
In § 3, it was shown that the number density of quasars of a given MBH declines with a mass-dependent e-folding time between 0.7 and 3 Gyr for quasars with an MBH of 10^9M solar mass to 10^10M solar mass (Table 2). The SDSS catalog includes much of the Northern hemisphere and so includes quasars almost diametrically opposed in the sky. At a redshift of 2, they lie in host galaxies that had not been causally connected since inflation, while even at much lower red-shift it is difficult to believe galaxies a few Gpc apart would strongly influence each others’ development. Yet, quasars with MBH 10^10M solar masses in such galaxies turn off synchronously to within 700 Myr.
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