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Cosmicflows-3: Cosmography of the Local Void

  • Authors: R. Brent Tully, Daniel Pomarède, Romain Graziani, Hélène M. Courtois, Yehuda Hoffman, and Edward J. Shaya

2019 The Astrophysical Journal 880 24.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

The Hercules Void. The deepest density minima are shown with contours of blue at the same density levels as in Figure 2. The locations of local minima are identified by red dots and names. Major bounding overdensities are identified. This extended void lies to the foreground of the high-density complex of clusters in Hercules. Multiple lesser extrema lie throughout the extended void that occupies the space from behind the traditional Local Supercluster and Great Attractor complex to the foreground of the Great Wall. The left panel shows a view from positive SGX and SGZ, slightly rotated from the reference viewing direction (Figure 2, video frame time 07:15). The view in the right panel is almost along the negative SGY axis, close to the viewing direction in the upper right panel of Figure 2, but with a foreground clip at SGY = +2200 km s−1 to afford minimal obstruction (07:25).

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