Thursday, July 13, 2017

Saraswati - A Super Cluster of Galaxies Discovered by Indian Scientists



A team of  scientists, led by Joydeep Bagchi.,   from Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, Newman College in Thodupuzha in Kerala, and National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, made the discovery.


Read More details

http://www.iucaa.in/Saraswati-General.html

The full paper in prepublication version can be downloaded from:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.03082.pdf


Prior Identified Superclusters


Contemporary catalogs of superclusters  range from relatively smaller systems such as the Hercules supercluster (Abell 1961) to the much more massive Shapley Concentration containing several major clusters and numerous groups (Raychaudhury 1989; Bardelli et al. 2000; Proust 2006).

More recently, a new supercluster called Laniakea, spanning ∼ 160 Mpc across, is identified (Tully et al. 2014) which is home to our Milky Way galaxy.

Laniakea - The Supercluster that Contains Earth and Its Sun

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Another large, wall-like structure spanning ∼ 250 Mpc was discovered in the SDSS-BOSS survey
(the BOSS Great Wall) at redshift 0.47 (Lietzen et al. 2016).


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