Is the Universe Homogeneous on Large Scales?

dc.creatorDavis, Marc
dc.date1996-10-19
dc.date1996-10-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:02:02Z
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dc.descriptionThis contribution is the affirmative side of a debate held with Dr. L. Pietronero at Princeton in June, 1996. I present the observational evidence that the fractal behavior which characterizes the small scale galaxy distribution does not continue to arbitarily large scale, but has a well defined cutoff with an outer length scale of order 30h$^{-1}$ Mpc. For example, plots of the IRAS 1.2 Jy survey exhibit a very clear approach to homogeneity on large scale, in complete contradiction to the endless fractal model.
dc.description11 pages Latex with 1 postscript figure. To be published in ``Critical Dialogues in Cosmology'' ed. N. Turok. Postscript also available at ftp://coma.berkeley.edu/pub/mdavis/pu250.ps.gz
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9610149
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9610149
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/148486
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleIs the Universe Homogeneous on Large Scales?
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