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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 565, Issue 2, Pages 849-853Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/324278
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galaxies : clusters : general; large-scale structure of universe; X-rays : galaxies : clusters
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We examine the orientations of rich galaxy cluster X-ray isophotes with respect to their rich nearest neighbors using existing samples of Abell cluster position angles measured from Einstein and ROSAT observations. We study a merged subset of these samples using updated and improved positions and redshifts for Abell/ACO clusters. We find high confidence for alignment, which increases as nearest neighbor distance is restricted. We conclude that there is a strong alignment signal in all this data, consistent with gravitational instability acting on Gaussian perturbation.
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