Can hidden correlations mimic a variable fine structure constant?
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Can hidden correlations mimic a variable fine structure constant ?
Murphy et al. (2003a, MNRAS, 345, 609) claim to find evidence of cosmological variations of the fine structure constant α in the spectra of intervening QSO absorption line systems. We find that this result is affected by systematic effects. The α values estimated in individual line systems depend on the set of atomic transitions used and therefore the quoted dependence on the cosmic age may ref...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Astronomy & Astrophysics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0004-6361,1432-0746
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20041738