On the Interpretation of Red-Shifts: A Quantitative Comparison of Red-Shift Mechanisms II

This paper gives a compilation of physical mechanisms producing red-shifts of astronomical objects. Over sixty proposed mechanisms are listed here for the purpose of quantitative comparisons. These mechanisms may not individually account for all observations but are adapted to particular situations such as the solar limb redshift, the red-shift of quasars or the cosmological red-shift. However, this paper focuses mainly on 59 mechanisms giving a quantitative description of the red-shift–distance relationship. For each mechanism a description is given with its properties, limits of applicability, functional relationships and a discussion.