Dynamics of Cosmic Flows

Abstract

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

Comments: 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)