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The Local Void is Really Empty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2007

R. Brent Tully
R. Brent Tully*
Affiliation:
Institure for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA email: tully@ifa.hawaii.edu
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Abstract

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Are voids in the distribution of galaxies only places with reduced matter density and low star formation efficiency or are they empty of matter? There is now compelling evidence of expansion away from the Local Void at very high velocities. The motion is most reasonably interpreted as an evacuation of the void, which requires that the void be very large and very empty.

Keywords

Galaxies: distances and redshiftsintergalactic mediumlarge-scale structure of universe
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 3 , Symposium S244: Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons , June 2007 , pp. 146 - 151
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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