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Contents
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
INTRODUCTION
GALAXY CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES
``Tuning Fork''
Elliptical Galaxies
Spiral Galaxies
Irregular Galaxies
Other Classification Schemes
FRACTAL DIMENSIONS
Defining Fractals and Fractal Dimensions
Capacity Dimension
Correlation Dimension
Calculating Fractal Dimension
DATA SET
FRACTAL DIMENSIONS OF GALAXIES
Contour Generation
Calculation of Fractal Dimensions of the Contours
Results
Capacity Dimensions and Correlation Dimensions
Comparing Correlation Dimensions and Capacity Dimensions
CONCLUSIONS
Bibliography
Sandip Thanki
1999-07-29