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A Search of the Zone of Avoidance in Scorpius

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

An optical search of the Scorpius region - close to the Galactic bulge - has revealed some 1400 partially-obscured galaxies. Redshifts have been obtained for nearly a hundred of these objects. Preliminary indications of large-scale structures are reported.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0006120,
  title  = {A Search of the Zone of Avoidance in Scorpius},
  author = {A. P. Fairall and Renee C. Kraan-Korteweg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0006120},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures, Latex, uses newpasp.sty; to appear in Mapping the Hidden Universe, ASP Conf. Ser., eds. R.C. Kraan-Korteweg, P.A. Henning, H. Andernach