THE HUGE OBJECTS REVEALED BY THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE ADSORPTION REDSHIFTS OF QSOS - ARE THEY GREAT ATTRACTORS

By means of a statistical test, based on the distribution of the free paths of the light rays which come from QSOs and are intercepted by intervening objects, we find that (a) the absorbers which cause the absorption redshifts of QSOs are not distributed randomly but are clustered, and (b) there exists a characteristic radius R(c) of about 10 h-1 Mpc (q0=0.5, H0=100 h km s-1 Mpc-1), the clusters of absorbers picked up with a neighbourhood radius r approximately R(c) correspond to the huge intervening objects of a kind which are distributed at random in space. The mean number density of these huge objects is about 2 10(-6)(1 + z)3 h3 Mpc-3. An estimate of the mass, about 10(17) h-1 M., suggests that these huge objects might correspond to the Great Attractors.