`Comparing the Predicted Abell/ACO Cluster & the MarkIII Galaxy Density and Velocity Fields', Contribution to the Wide Field Spectroscopy Meeting held in Athens, 20-24 May 1996

Abstract

We compare the predicted Abell/ACO cluster density and velocity fields, using linear theory, with that based on the MarkIII catalog and the POTENT machinery within 7000 km/sec. Both density & velocity fields are in good qualitative agreement indicating that apart from a linear biasing factor the optical Abell/ACO clusters do trace the underlying mass distribution quite well.

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