underdensities

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A form of underdensity — The condition or extent of being underdense.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of underdensity

    When we force the local density (within 2 Mpc) at z=0 to be the same for galaxies in the large-scale over- and underdensities, we find the same results.

    2015, Stephanie Tonnesen, Renyue Cen, “Don't Forget the Forest for the Trees: The Stellar-Mass Halo-Mass Relation in Different Environments”, in arXiv
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