THE GREAT ATTRACTOR - DO GALAXIES TRACE THE LARGE-SCALE MASS-DISTRIBUTION

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DRESSLER, A
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[1] Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, CA 91101
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10.1038/350391a0
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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Large-scale inhomogeneities have been discovered in the distribution of galaxies and attempts have been made to infer, from their motions, the distribution of the additional, invisible matter that dominates the dynamical evolution of the Universe. Like the galaxy distribution, the smoothed distribution of mass density shows high-contrast features stretching over vast regions. The local volume of the Universe seems to be dominated by a single region of above-average mass density: the Great Attractor.
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