Alignment of galaxy spins in the vicinity of voids

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Slosar, Anež ^a,b   White, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Galaxy evolution; Galaxy formation; Superclusters and voids

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350700715     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/06/009     Document Type: Article

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