Discovery of a massive supercluster system atz~ 0.47

2016/02/26 by H. Lietzen, Elmo Tempel, E. Tempel +9 · 44 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics #Biology #Boss #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Engineering #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Physics #Range (aeronautics) #Redshift #Supercluster (genetic) #astro-ph.CO

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201628261

published in Astronomy and Astrophysics 588, L4 (EDP Sciences) · 4 pages, accepted as a letter in A&A

arxiv created 2016/02/26 · openalex publication_date 2016/03/02 · arxiv updated 2016/03/16 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Aims. Superclusters are the largest relatively isolated systems in the cosmic web. Using the SDSS BOSS survey, we search for the largest superclusters in the redshift range 0.43 < z < 0.71.

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