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We review theoretical arguments which suggest that galaxies may be more strongly clustered than the mass distribution. These ideas can be checked by testing whether the strength of galaxy clustering depends on the properties of the tracers (e.g. their luminosities, morphological type, etc.) and whether biases extend to large scales. The IRAS sample may provide strong constraints on large-scale clustering. We present preliminary results from a redshift survey of IRAS galaxies which indicate no significant correlations on scales ≥ 15h−1Mpc.
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Efstathiou, G. (1988). Galaxies as tracers of the mass distribution. In: Lawrence, A. (eds) Comets to Cosmology. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 297. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0118824
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