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Shape of Superclusters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2016
Abstract
Attempts to measure structural parameters of superclusters are described. Catalogues of superclusters have been prepared using a percolation algorithm applied to a complete sample of UGC galaxies brighter than the 14.5 magnitude. Both a two dimensinal (projected) and a three dimensional approach have been tried. The (conservative) result is that superclusters are certainly not spherical. Probably the departure from sphericity is towards elongated cigar-like structers. No evidence of relative alignements of superclusters has been found.
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- CHAPTER IV: The Large Scale Distribution of Galaxies
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 124: Observational Cosmology , 1987 , pp. 327 - 329
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- Copyright © Reidel 1987