Halton C Arp
Halton C. Arp | |
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| Born | March 21, 1927 |
| Died | December 28, 2013 |
| Residence | D-85741 Garching, Germany |
| Nationality | USA / German |
| Known for | Astronomy, Galaxies, Quasars, Pulsars, Redshift, Big Bang |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomer |
Halton Christian Arp received his Bachelors degree from Harvard College in 1949 and his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1953, both cum laude. He is a professional astronomer who, earlier in his career, conducted Edwin Hubble's nova search in M31. He has earned the Helen B. Warner Prize, the Newcomb Cleveland Award and the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. For 28 years he was staff astronomer at the Mt. Palomar and Mt. Wilson observatories. While there, he produced his well-known catalog of "Peculiar Galaxies" that are disturbed or irregular in appearance. Arp discovered, from photographs and spectra with the big telescopes, that many pairs of quasars (quasi-stellar objects) which have extremely high redshift z values (and are therefore thought to be receding from us very rapidly - and thus must be located at a great distance from us) are physically connected to galaxies that have low redshift and are known to be relatively close by. Because of Arp's observations, the assumption that high red shift objects have to be very far away - on which the Big Bang theory and all of "accepted cosmology" is based - has to be fundamentally reexamined.
Articles:
- "A Possible Relationship Between Quasars and Clusters of Galaxies" Astrophysical Journal, 2001, V549, pp. 802-819 (with D. G. Russell).
- Dennis Overbye, "Halton C. Arp, Astronomer Who Challenged Big Bang Theory, Dies at 86" (Jan 6, 2014).
Abstracts
- 2011 - "Presentation of the 2011 Sagnac Award to Halton C. Arp" (Read in full)
- 2007 - "The Observational Impetus for Le Sage Gravity"
- 2005 - "Observational Cosmology: From High Redshift Galaxies to the Blue Pacific" (Read in full)
- 2000 - "Cosmology: "Contradictions Between Theory and Observations""
- 1999 - "New Empirical Clues for the Factor 1.23"
- 1998 - "Evolution of Quasars into Galaxies and its Implications for the Birth and Evolution of Matter" (Read in full)
- 1997 - "Evolution of Quasars into Galaxies and its Implications for the Birth and Evolution of Matter"
- 1993 - "Empirical Evidence on the Creation of Galaxies and Quasars"
- 1991 - "How Non-Velocity Redshifts in Galaxies Depend on Epoch of Creation" (Read in full)
- 1989 - "Extragalactic Evidence for Quantum Causality" (Read in full)
- 1986 - "The Persistent Problem of Spiral Galaxies"
Books
- 2003 - "Catalogue of Discordant Redshift Associations" (Read in full)
- 1998 - "Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science" (Read in full)
- 1994 - "Progress in New Cosmologies: Beyond the Big Bang" (Read in full)
- 1987 - "Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies" (Read in full)
Media
- 2004 - Universe - The Cosmology Quest (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Documentary)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)
