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Interpreting the spectral axis at high redshift

When the source is far from the observer, the radial velocity may become a sizable fraction of the light velocity (because of the universe expansion) and the approximations of section 1.2 are not valid anymore. However, Gordon et al. (1992) propose a solution based on the observational definition of the redshift.



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