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A brief sketch of Wirtz's contributions in cosmology and extragalactic research is given: the velocity — distance relation, the galaxy luminosity function, galaxy photometry, segregation in clusters, and intergalactic extinction.
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Duerbeck, H.W. (1989). Carl Wirtz — An early observational cosmologist. In: Flin, P., Duerbeck, H.W. (eds) Morphological Cosmology. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 332. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51223-3_141
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