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Cosmography of the Local Universe

  • Authors: Hélène M. Courtois, Daniel Pomarède, R. Brent Tully, Yehuda Hoffman, and Denis Courtois

Courtois et al. 2013 The Astronomical Journal 146 69.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Three-dimensional view of V8k redshift catalog. Cluster fingers of God are suppressed. V8k contains many faint, low-surface-brightness galaxies not included in alternative compilations like 2MASS. The zone of avoidance causes the vertical gap, and galaxies in the region around the Virgo Cluster give rise to the greatest crowding.

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