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New Structure In The Shapley Supercluster

Astrophysics 2015-06-24 v1

Abstract

We present new radial velocities for 189 galaxies in a 91 sq. deg region of the Shapley supercluster measured with the FLAIR-II spectrograph on the UK Schmidt Telescope. The data reveal two sheets of galaxies linking the major concentrations of the supercluster. The supercluster is not flattened in Declination as was suggested previously and it may be at least 30 percent larger than previously thought with a correspondingly larger contribution to the motion of the Local Group.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9807118,
  title  = {New Structure In The Shapley Supercluster},
  author = {M. J. Drinkwater and Q. A. Parker and D. Proust and H. Quintana and E. Slezak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9807118},
  year   = {2015}
}

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LaTex: 2 pages, 1 figure, includes conf_iap.sty style file. To appear in proceedings of The 14th IAP Colloquium: Wide Field Surveys in Cosmology, held in Paris, 1998 May 26--30, eds. S.Colombi, Y.Mellier

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