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You're right about the first two papers (which used the same approach). Ruling out a FP result would be difficult, which is why it wasn't fully embraced by the
by simsla 8y ago
You're right about the first two papers (which used the same approach). Ruling out a FP result would be difficult, which is why it wasn't fully embraced by the scientific community.
The third team took a different approach [1], with results that are both more accurate, less prone to FP, and generally agree with the other findings.
> Here we report observations of two absorbers of highly ionized oxygen (O VII) in the high-signal-to-noise-ratio X-ray spectrum of a quasar at a redshift higher than 0.4. These absorbers show no variability over a two-year timescale and have no associated cold absorption, making the assumption that they originate from the quasar’s intrinsic outflow or the host galaxy’s interstellar medium implausible.
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0204-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0204-1