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The spatial distribution of bright and faint galaxies in the Virgo supercluster is compared using the nearest neighbour test, cluster and percolation analysis. There are no differences in the spatial distribution of bright and faint galaxies down to absolute magnitude -15.0 (H = 100 km s−1 Mpc−1) except for most giant galaxies, which are located in the high density regions and are absent in the lowest density regions. Bright and faint galaxies are situated in statistically identical systems, and the ratio of faint to bright galaxies is nearly the same in high and low density regions. There are no isolated galaxies in the region under study.
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Einasto, M. (1989). Distribution of galaxies of different luminosity in the virgo supercluster. In: Flin, P., Duerbeck, H.W. (eds) Morphological Cosmology. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 332. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51223-3_117
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