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The de Sitter redshift, a more or less moth-balled relativistic redshift, is re-examined in light of present-day observations and compared to the Hubble redshift. The redshift-magnitude relation given by the Hubble law is compared to that given by the de Sitter law. The intrinsic brightness of quasars, in the context of a de Sitter redshift, is not at all extraordinary. For high-redshift objects, such as quasars, redshift is an indicator, but a weak indicator, of distance. Could the “ancient” de Sitter redshift still play a role in modern astronomy?
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Miller, J.B., Miller, T.E. (1993). De Sitter Redshift: The Old and the New. In: Arp, H.C., Keys, C.R., Rudnicki, K. (eds) Progress in New Cosmologies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1225-1_8
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