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This book brings together the thinking of twenty-two eminent astronomers on a fascinating topic of contemporary large-scale galaxy motions. Stars group into galaxies, galaxies unite into clusters, clusters merge into superclusters, and superclusters meet at intersections of filaments to define voids and supercluster complexes. Can gravity alone, arising from this irregular mass distribution, produce the motions which observers detect? In this collection, astronomers discuss evidence for irregular clumping of galaxies throughout the observed universe, determination of galaxy peculiar motions, and predictions from theories of the early universe relating to small-scale fluctuations in the microwave background radiation, the lumpy matter distribution, and large motions. This book can serve as a companion volume to The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe by P.J.E. Peebles (Princeton, 1980). Authors of chapters in the book include N. A. Bahcall, J. R. Bond, D. Burstein, M. Davis, A. Dekel, G. Efstathiou, S. M. Faber, M. Geller, M. P. Haynes, J. P. Huchra, N. Kaiser, D. C. Koo, A. N. Lasenby, D. Lynden-Bell, J. Mould, P.J.E. Peebles, V. C. Rubin, A. Szalay, R. B. Tully, N. Vittorio, and

Who reads Large-scale motions in the universe : proceedings of a study week at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, November 9-14, 1987?

Author

Vera C Rubin; George V Coyne; Pontificia Accademia delle scienze

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691085258

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Mathematics, Astronomy