The Existence of High-Order Clusters of Galaxies

Abstract

The problem of the existence of high-order clustering of galaxies is a basic one in extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. In a conventional formulation this problem consists of indicating the largest configurations in the spatial distribution of galaxies.All treatments are carried out generally on the material presented in the catalogues of Abell (1958) and Zwicky et al. (1961-1968). However catalogues of the Jagellonian type (Rudnicki et al. 1973) may turn out to be extremely valuable. The nature of the observational material demonstrates that only statistical methods may be applied effectively. It is already clear that the expected effects are not large even if high-order clustering is a basic property in the Universe.