What is the relation between recessional velocities and red shifts >>1?

Subject: What is the relation between recessional velocities and red shifts >>1?

Date: Thu Jul 15 17:58:10 1999
Posted by Uncle Al
Grade level: nonaligned School: Unviersity of Victoria
City: Victoria State/Province: British Columbia Country: Canada
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 932079490.As

Message:


Astronomy texts wax eloquently about how v = 
c[/_\(lambda/lambda).  They then go dead silent, ignoring 
red shifts greate than one.  Quasars are observed with redsihfts 
"exceeding 4, more than 93% of the speed of light."

The classical equation is obviously incomplete (wrong).  What is 
the proper relationship between observed red shift and 
astronomical recession velocity for large red shifts?

Thank you!

Uncle Al
uncleal@uvic.ca

Re: What is the relation between recessional velocities and red shifts >>1?

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