clustocentric

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clustocentric (not comparable)

  1. (astronomy) centred on a galactic cluster
    • 2016, Rebecca J. Allen, Glenn G. Kacprzak, Karl Glazebrook, Kim-Vy H. Tran, Lee R. Spitler, Caroline M. S. Straatman, Michael Cowley, Themiya Nanayakkara, “Differences in the structural properties and star-formation rates of field and cluster galaxies at z~1”, in arXiv[1]:
      The average SFRs of star-forming cluster galaxies show a trend of decreasing SFR with clustocentric radius.