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General Superclustering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

G.O. Abell
G.O. Abell*
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles

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The distribution of rich clusters of galaxies revealed on the photographs taken for the National Geographic Society-Palomar Observatory Sky Survey shows a strong dumpiness on a scale of 100 Mpc (for H = 50 km s–1 Mpc–1), with vast intraclump regions apparently void of rich clusters (Abell 1958; 1961). Studies of the n-point correlation function by Peebles and his associates (e.g., Peebles 1980 and references therein) show that this large-scale dumpiness applies also to individual galaxies. Peebles’ statistical approach does not, of course, indicate individual superclusters or their structures; that kind of information awaited the breakthrough provided by the development of high-speed detectors, with which radial velocities of large numbers of galaxies can be obtained in reasonable observing times.

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Joint Commission Meetings
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Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 6: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XVIIIth General Assembly of the IAU, 1982 , 1983 , pp. 753 - 756
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Copyright © Reidel 1983

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