Quasar-cloud redshift separation
ID: quasar-cloud-redshift-separation
For nearby redshifts in a homogeneous expanding universe, the comoving radial distance increment is . Multiplying by the scale factor at the absorber's epoch gives the displayed proper distance in cosmology. The conversion neglects peculiar velocities; observed redshift differences can also contain such velocities and errors in the quasar emission redshift.
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