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Very close pairs of Quasi-Stellar Objects

G. Burbidge, F. Hoyle, P. Schneider

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9601031

Abstract

It is pointed out that there are now known four very close pairs of QSOs with separations < 5 arcsec and very different redshifts. Several estimates of the probability that they are accidental configurations range between 10-7 and 3.5 x 10-3. We conclude either that this is further evidence that QSOs have significant non-cosmological redshift components, or that thave significant non-cosmological redshift components, or that the pairs must be explained by gravitational lensing.

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