1994/01/31 by Avishai Dekel · 215 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1146/annurev.aa.32.090194.002103
published in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 32(1), 371-418 (Annual Reviews) · A review for Ann. Rev. of Astron. and Astrophys. 32 (October 1994). 46 pages, 10 figures built-in, compressed and uuencoded PostScript (1.58 Mbyte). (Also available by anonymous ftp from venus.huji.ac.il as pub/dekel/reviews/annrev9.uu, or text and figures separately as annrev7.uu with fig*.ps) (HUJI-AST-94-002)
arxiv created 1994/03/03 · openalex publication_date 1994/09/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
CONTENTS: 1. INTRODUCTION 2. GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY 3. MEASURING PECULIAR VELOCITIES 4. ANALYSIS OF OBSERVED PECULIAR VELOCITIES 5. PREDICTED MOTIONS FROM THE GALAXY DISTRIBUTION 6. TESTING BASIC HYPOTHESES 7. THE INITIAL FLUCTUATIONS 8. THE VALUE OF OMEGA 9. DISCUSSION: ARE THE HYPOTHESES JUSTIFIED? REFERENCES