The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies

R. Brent Tully (), Hélène Courtois, Yehuda Hoffman and Daniel Pomarède
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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

Nature, 2014, vol. 513, issue 7516, 71-73

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.

Date: 2014
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