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fingers of God: a standalone construct

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Cosmology

the elongation of galaxy clusters along the line of sight in redshift space caused by random peculiar velocities of galaxies within them.

In cosmology, fingers of God refers to the elongation of galaxy clusters along the line of sight in redshift space caused by random peculiar velocities of galaxies within them. This meaning comes from Jackson (1972) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.[1]

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References

Jackson, J. C. (1972). A Critique of Rees's Theory of Primordial Gravitational Radiation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 156(1), 1P-5P. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/156.1.1p

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