
CONTENTS: 1. INTRODUCTION 2. GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY 3. MEASURING PECULIAR VELOCITIES 4. ANALYSIS OF OBSERVED PECULIAR VELOCITIES 5. PREDICTED MOTIONS FROM THE GALAXY DISTRIBUTION 6. TESTING BASIC HYPOTHESES 7. THE INITIAL FLUCTUATIONS 8. THE VALUE OF OMEGA 9. DISCUSSION: ARE THE HYPOTHESES JUSTIFIED? REFERENCES
A review for Ann. Rev. of Astron. and Astrophys. 32 (October 1994). 46 pages, 10 figures built-in, compressed and uuencoded PostScript (1.58 Mbyte). (Also available by anonymous ftp from venus.huji.ac.il as pub/dekel/reviews/annrev9.uu, or text and figures separately as annrev7.uu with fig*.ps) (HUJI-AST-94-002)
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
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