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Persistent fluctuations and scaling properties in galaxy number counts
Francesco Sylos Labini, Andrea Gabrielli
Counts of galaxies as a function of apparent magnitude are among the most time-honored observations in cosmology. In this Letter, we focus on some statistical properties of these c…
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Fractal structures and the large scale distribution of galaxies
Luciano Pietronero, Francesco Sylos Labini
Galaxy structures are certainly fractal up to a certain crossover scale λ_0. A clear determination of such a scale is still missing. Usually, the conceptual and practical implicati…