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A Search for a Vestigial Object in the Centre of a Cosmic Void

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

G.F.R. Ellis
Affiliation:
Departments of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700 South Africa
A.P. Fairall
Affiliation:
Departments of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700 South Africa
A. Maurellis
Affiliation:
Departments of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700 South Africa
D.R. Matravers
Affiliation:
Departments of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700 South Africa

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The revelation that galaxies are apparently distributed on two dimensional surfaces that enclose bubble-like voids (de Lapparent et al. 1986, Fairall et al. 1985) has raised considerable interest. We have started an ongoing program to identify and confirm the existence of such structures - as extracted from our redshift database and others. We are concerned to measure how close to sphericity the bubbles fall and, in particular, to see how well their centres can be located.

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Appendix 1: Poster Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

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