
%0 Journal Article
%A Wesson, PS 
%T Tests of Randomness in Astronomical Objects. I. Along Single Great Circles
%J Australian Journal of Physics
%D 1975/08/01
%V 28
%N 4
%P 453-462
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PH750453
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PH750453 
%X Results are presented for the first of two extensive computer tests for nonrandomness in the interobject positions of astronomical objects. The aim is to test the two predictions: the geometrical effect that it is impossible to put an arbitrarily large number of objects on the surface of a sphere and have them all randomly equivalent; and the physical effect that any astronomical objects which occur in clumps or clusters (like galaxies) should show the predicted regular-chain effect of Scott et at. (1954). Four other physical effects expected to give rise to nonrandomness are also discussed, including the Arp hypothesis 
