Hoyle, F. ; Narlikar, J. V. (1986) The luminosity-volume test and the local hypothesis of Quasars Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, 7 (2). pp. 99-103. ISSN 0250-6335
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Abstract
It is shown that the luminosity-volume test for optically selected objects has an in-built bias towards increasing the average value of V/Vm above the Euclidean value of ½. A more satisfactory bias-free statistic is suggested in the form of In (V/Vm), The result of applying the test to a sample from the Bright Quasar Survey (BQS) shows that the local hypothesis of quasars is consistent with the data.
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| Keywords: | Quasars; Statistics–Quasars; Local Hypothesis |
| ID Code: | 41254 |
| Deposited On: | 27 May 2011 09:55 |
| Last Modified: | 17 May 2016 23:03 |
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