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A 2007 [[absorption spectroscopy|absorption spectroscopic]] analysis of quasars by Ryabinkov ''et al.'' observed a pattern of statistically significant alternating peaks and dips in the redshift range Δ''z'' = 0.0 − 3.7, though they noted no statistical correlation between their findings and Karlsson's formula.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Ryabinkov| first1 = A. I. | last2 = Kaminker| first2 = A. D. | last3 = Varshalovich| first3 = D. A. | date=2007| title = The redshift distribution of absorption-line systems in QSO spectra| journal = Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. | volume = 376| issue = 4 | pages = 1838–18481 | doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11567.x | bibcode=2007MNRAS.376.1838R|arxiv = astro-ph/0703277 }}</ref>

==Explanatory theories==

===Galactic clustering===

Some have proposed that quantization is caused by the geometry of [[Galaxy filament|filamentary]] [[superclusters]] and [[void (astronomy)|voids]] observed in [[Large-scale structure of the cosmos|large-scale structure models]] of the cosmos.

In 1987, E. Sepulveda suggested that galactic clustering could account for all redshift periodicities, using a geometric model based on [[polytrope|polytrope theory]]:

[[Image:2dfgrs.png|right|thumb|300px|Rendering of the [[2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey]] data. The [[galaxy filament]]s visible here can appear as weak redshift quantization by some statistical measures.]]

:"The smallest periodicities (Δ''z'' = 72 km/s and 144 km/s) are due to parallel line segments of galactic clustering. The largest (Δ''z'' = 0.15) are due to circumferential circuits around the universe. Intermediate periodicities are due to other geometric irregularities. These periodicities or apparent quantizations are relics or faithful fossils of a real quantization that occurred in the primordial atom."<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Sepulveda | first1 = E. |date=1987| title = Geometric Paradigm Accounts for All Redshift Periodicities |bibcode=1987BAAS...19Q.689S | journal = Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society | volume = 19 | issue = | page = 689 }}</ref>

==References==