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The deep galaxy sample of MacGillivray & Dodd (1980), obtained from purely objective means, is investigated using the technique of Kuhn & Uson (1982) for the presence of structure of a filamentary nature. A variety of synthetic fields of galaxies (including both ‘filament’ and ‘non-filament’ models) generated by means of a computer simulation technique have also been studied for comparison purposes. No strong evidence for filamentary structure in the galaxy distribution is found for this deep sample.
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MacGillivray, H.T., Dodd, R.J. Filamentary structure in an objectively-derived deep galaxy sample?. J Astrophys Astron 7, 293–298 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02714216
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