If it will help, you can check out the predictions this approach was able to make before the James Web space telescope sent back any data.
https://theeggandtherock.substack.com/p/predictions-what-the...
And how they were validated later by the James Webb.
https://theeggandtherock.com/p/killer-new-evidence-that-supe...
Do you have a link to the journal article?