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The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies

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  • R. Brent Tully

    (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii)

  • Hélène Courtois

    (Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Université Lyon I, CNRS/IN2P3, Lyon 69622, France)

  • Yehuda Hoffman

    (Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel)

  • Daniel Pomarède

    (Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l’Univers, CEA/Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

Abstract

Examination of a three-dimensional map of galaxies and their velocities shows a surface bounding the motions of galaxies that are inward after removal of the mean cosmic expansion and long-range flows; the galaxies within this surface lie within our home supercluster.

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  • R. Brent Tully & Hélène Courtois & Yehuda Hoffman & Daniel Pomarède, 2014. "The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies," Nature, Nature, vol. 513(7516), pages 71-73, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:513:y:2014:i:7516:d:10.1038_nature13674
    DOI: 10.1038/nature13674
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    1. Shiozawa, Yui & Miller, Bruce N., 2016. "Cosmology in one dimension: A two-component model," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 86-91.

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