Isotropic cosmic expansion and the Rubin-Ford effect
Abstract
We show that the Rubin-Ford (RFR) data, often taken as evidence for large scale anisotropic cosmic expansion, probably only reflect the inhomogeneous distribution of galaxies in the region of the Rubin-Ford sample. The data RFR have presented are consistent with isotropic expansion, an unperturbed galaxy velocity field and hence a low density Universe.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- August 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1038/262457a0
- Bibcode:
- 1976Natur.262..457F
- Keywords:
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- Big Bang Cosmology;
- Galactic Clusters;
- Galactic Structure;
- Isotropy;
- Radial Velocity;
- Star Distribution;
- Astronomical Models;
- Hubble Diagram;
- Velocity Distribution;
- Astrophysics