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?