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We present a catalog of 3D Galactic HI filaments over 1/3 of the sky using Galactic Arecibo L-band Feed Array HI (GALFA-HI) data. The 3D filaments are defined to be linear HI features that are continuous in position-position-velocity (PPV)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-25 M. E. Putman , D. A. Kim , S. E. Clark , L. Li , C. Holm-Hansen , J. E. G. Peek

In this work, we investigate whether the location of galaxies within the large-scale structures (LSS) of the Universe affects their stellar mass ($M_\star$) and morphology. To this end, we attempt to disentangle the effects of local and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-05 G. Torres-Ríos , S. Verley , I. Pérez , M. Argudo-Fernández , B. Bidaran , S. Duarte Puertas , Y. K. González-Koda

We have conducted a high signal-to-noise spectroscopic survey of 670 nearby early-type stars, to map Diffuse Interstellar Band (DIB) absorption in and around the Local Bubble. The project started with a Southern hemisphere survey conducted…

Based on data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, we report on the discovery of structures that we refer to as `tendrils' of galaxies: coherent, thin chains of galaxies that are rooted in filaments and terminate in neighbouring…

The size, shape and degree of emptiness of void interiors sheds light on the details of galaxy formation. A particularly interesting question is whether void interiors are completely empty or contain a dwarf population. However the nearby…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-21 Brian K. Bucklein , J. Ward Moody , Eric G. Hintz

The combination of dispersion measures of pulsars, distances from the model of Cordes and Lazio (2002) and emission measures from the WHAM survey enabled a statistical study of electron densities and filling factors of the diffuse ionized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. M. Berkhuijsen , D. Mitra , P. Mueller

The Universe expansion rate is modulated around local inhomogeneities due to their gravitational potential. Velocity waves are then observed around galaxy clusters in the Hubble diagram. This paper studies them in a ~738 Mpc wide, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Jenny G. Sorce , Roya Mohayaee , Nabila Aghanim , Klaus Dolag , Nicola Malavasi

Context. Void population consists mainly of late-type and low surface brightness (LSB) dwarf galaxies whose atomic hydrogen is the main component of their baryonic matter. Therefore, observations of void galaxy HI are mandatory in order to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 S. A. Pustilnik , J. -M. Martin

We present neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) observations using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) along the lines of sight to 49 dwarf satellite galaxy candidates around eight Local Volume systems (M104, M51, NGC1023, NGC1156,…

Five galaxy groups with properties similar to those of the Local Group have been surveyed for HI clouds with the Arecibo Telescope. In total 300 pointings have been observed on grids of approximately 2.5 x 1.5 Mpc centred on the groups. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Martin Zwaan

I present the Local Volume Database (LVDB), a catalog of the observed properties of dwarf galaxies and star clusters in the Local Group and Local Volume. The LVDB includes positional, structural, kinematic, chemical, and dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-29 Andrew B. Pace

According to the discussion on Birkhoff's theorem by Peebles (1993), a void with a negative perturbation \delta may evolve as a separate homogeneous universe with a local expansion parameter H_V\simeq H_0(1-\delta/3). This slightly low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. V. Manning

Cosmic voids are the largest and most underdense structures in the Universe. Their properties have been shown to encode precious information about the laws and constituents of the Universe. We show that machine learning techniques can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Bonny Y. Wang , Alice Pisani , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We present the results of an all-sky, deep optical survey for faint Local Group dwarf galaxies. Candidate objects were selected from the second Palomar survey (POSS-II) and ESO/SRC survey plates and follow-up observations performed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alan B. Whiting , George K. T. Hau , Mike Irwin , Miguel Verdugo

We have assembled 21-cm linewidths for 376 of the 732 galaxies in a magnitude-limited redshift survey of the the Perseus-Pisces region. We analyze a distance limited subset of 271 galaxies (131 widths) to examine the relationship between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Lorraine A. Allen , Margaret J. Geller

The structure of the low redshift Universe is dominated by a multi-scale void distribution delineated by filaments and walls of galaxies. The characteristics of voids; such as morphology, average density profile, and correlation function,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Manu Aggarwal , Motonari Tonegawa , Stephen Appleby , Changbom Park , Vipul Periwal

It has been recently claimed that there is no correlation between the distribution of galaxies and their peculiar velocities within the Local Volume (LV), namely a sphere of R=7/h Mpc around the Local Group (LG). It has been then stated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Luis A. Martinez-Vaquero , Gustavo Yepes , Yehuda Hoffman

Using a sample of cosmic voids identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7, we study the star formation activity of void galaxies. The properties of galaxies living in voids are compared with those of galaxies living in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Elena Ricciardelli , Antonio Cava , Jesus Varela , Vicent Quilis

We have derived estimators for the linear growth rate of density fluctuations using the cross-correlation function of voids and haloes in redshift space, both directly and in Fourier form. In linear theory, this cross-correlation contains…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 Yan-Chuan Cai , Andy Taylor , John A. Peacock , Nelson Padilla

The survey description and the near-, mid-, and far-infrared flux properties are presented for the 258 galaxies in the Local Volume Legacy (LVL). LVL is a Spitzer Space Telescope legacy program that surveys the local universe out to 11 Mpc,…