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International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012, 2, 52-61 / 10.4236/ijaa.2012.21008 Published Online March 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ijaa) Doppler Boosting May Have Played No Significant Role in the Finding Surveys of Radio-Loud Quasars Morley B. Bell Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada Email: morley.bell@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Received October 25, 2011; revised December 6, 2011; accepted December 17, 2011 ABSTRACT There appears to be a fundamental problem facing Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) jet models that require highly relativ- istic ejection speeds and small jet viewing angles to explain the large apparent superluminal motions seen in so many of the radio-loud quasars with high redshift. When the data are looked at closely it is found that, assuming the core com- ponent is unboosted, only a small percentage of the observed radio frequency flux density from these sources can be Doppler boosted. If the core component is boosted the percentage of boosted to unboosted flux will be higher but will still be far from the 90 percent required for Doppler boosting to have played a significant role. Without a highly directed, Doppler boosted component that dominates the observed flux, radio sources found in low-frequency finding surveys cannot be preferentially selected with small jet viewing angles. The distribution of jet orientations will then follow the sini curve associated with a random distribution, where only a very few sources (~1%) will have the small viewing an- gles (8˚) required to explain apparent superluminal motions vapp 10c, and this makes it difficult to explain how around 33% of the radio-loud AGNs with high redshift can exhibit such hig