Laniakea Supercluster

Short description: Galaxy supercluster that is home to the Milky Way Galaxy and many more galaxies

Laniakea Supercluster

A map of the Laniakea Supercluster and its component galaxy clusters

Observation data (Epoch J2000)
Constellation(s)| Triangulum Australe and Norma
(Great Attractor)
Right ascension|  10h 32m
Declination| −46° 00′

Brightest member| Milky Way (mag –5.0)
Number of galaxies| 100,000–150,000
Major axis| 520 million ly (159 Mpc) h−167.80 ± 0.77
(H0 from Planck 2013)
Redshift| 0.0708 (center)
Distance
(co-moving)| 250 million ly (77 Mpc) h−167.80 ± 0.077
(Great Attractor)
(H0 from Planck 2013)
Binding mass| 1×1017[1] M☉
Other designations
Local Supercluster, Laniakea, Laniakea Supercluster, Laniakea Complex
See also: Galaxy group, Galaxy cluster, List of galaxy groups and clusters

The Laniakea Supercluster (/ˌlɑːni.əˈkeɪ.ə/; Hawaiian for "open skies" or "immense heaven")[2] is the galaxy supercluster that is home to the Milky Way and approximately 100,000 other nearby galaxies.

It was defined in September 2014, when a group of astronomers including R. Brent Tully of the University of Hawaiʻi, Hélène Courtois of the University of Lyon, Yehuda Hoffman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Daniel Pomarède of CEA Université Paris-Saclay published a new way of defining superclusters according to the relative velocities of galaxies.[3][4] The new definition of the local supercluster subsumes the prior defined local supercluster, the Virgo Supercluster, as an appendage.[5][6][7][8][9]

Follow-up studies suggest that the Laniakea Supercluster is not gravitationally bound. It will disperse rather than continue to maintain itself as an overdensity relative to surrounding areas.[10]

## Contents

* 1 Name
* 2 Characteristics
* 3 Location
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 Further reading
* 7 External links

## Name

The name laniākea ([ˈlɐnijaːˈkɛjə]) means 'immense heaven' in Hawaiian, from lani 'heaven', and ākea 'spacious, immeasurable'. The name was suggested by Nawaʻa Napoleon, an associate professor of Hawaiian language at Kapiolani Community College.[11] The name honors Polynesian navigators, who used knowledge of the heavens to navigate the Pacific Ocean.[12]

## Characteristics

File:Nearby Superclusters.webm The Laniakea Supercluster encompasses approximately 100,000 galaxies stretched out over 160 Mpc (520 million ly). It has the approximate mass of 1017 solar masses, or 100,000 times that of our galaxy, which is almost the same as that of the Horologium Supercluster.[3] It consists of four subparts, which were known previously as separate superclusters:

* Virgo Supercluster, the part in which the Milky Way resides.
* Hydra–Centaurus Supercluster
* the Great Attractor, Laniakea's central gravitational point near Norma
* Antlia Wall, known as Hydra Supercluster
* Centaurus Supercluster
* Pavo–Indus Supercluster
* Southern Supercluster, including Fornax Cluster (S373), Dorado and Eridanus clouds.[13]

The most massive galaxy clusters of the Laniakea Supercluster are Virgo, Hydra, Centaurus, Abell 3565, Abell 3574, Abell 3521, Fornax, Eridanus, and Norma. The entire supercluster consists of approximately 300 to 500 known galaxy clusters and groups. The real number may be much larger because some of these are traversing the Zone of Avoidance, an area of the sky that is partially obscured by gas and dust from the Milky Way galaxy, making them essentially undetectable.

Superclusters are some of the universe's largest structures and have boundaries that are difficult to define, especially from the inside. Within a given supercluster, most galaxy motions will be directed inward, toward the center of mass. In the case of Laniakea, this gravitational focal point is called the Great Attractor, and influences the motions of the Local Group of galaxies, where the Milky Way galaxy resides, and all others throughout the supercluster. Unlike its constituent clusters, Laniakea is not gravitationally bound and is projected to be torn apart by dark energy.[7]

Although the confirmation of the existence of the Laniakea Supercluster emerged in 2014,[3] early studies in the 1980s already suggested that several of the superclusters then known might be connected. For example, South African astronomer Tony Fairall stated in 1988 that redshifts suggested that the Virgo and Hydra–Centaurus superclusters may be connected.[14]

## Location

A map of superclusters within the nearby universe, with Laniakea shown in yellow

The neighboring superclusters to the Laniakea Supercluster are the Shapley Supercluster, Hercules Supercluster, Coma Supercluster, and Perseus–Pisces Supercluster. The edges of the superclusters and Laniakea were not clearly known at the time of Laniakea's definition.[6] Since then, the study of the edges of the supercluster and of structures beyond them has substantially improved.[15][16]

Laniakea is itself a constituent part of the Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex, a galaxy filament.

## See also

* Dipole repeller
* Galaxy cluster
* Galaxy filament
* Illustris project
* Local Void – nearest neighboring void
* Supercluster
* Void
* List of Abell clusters

## References

1. ↑ "The Milky Way's 'City' Just Got a New Name". Bloomberg.com (CityLab). 3 September 2014. http://www.citylab.com/housing/2014/09/the-milky-ways-city-just-got-a-new-name/379502/.
2. ↑ Taylor, Charles (2014). Science Encyclopedia. Kingfisher.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Tully, R. Brent; Courtois, Hélène; Hoffman, Yehuda; Pomarède, Daniel (Sep 2014). "The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies" (in en). Nature 513 (7516): 71–73. doi:10.1038/nature13674. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 25186900. Bibcode: 2014Natur.513...71T. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13674.
4. ↑ Tempel, Elmo (2014-09-01). "Cosmology: Meet the Laniakea supercluster". Nature 513 (7516): 41–42. doi:10.1038/513041a. PMID 25186896. Bibcode: 2014Natur.513...41T.
5. ↑ "Newly identified galactic supercluster is home to the Milky Way". National Radio Astronomy Observatory (ScienceDaily). 3 September 2014. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140903133319.htm.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Irene Klotz (2014-09-03). "New map shows Milky Way lives in Laniakea galaxy complex". Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-galaxies-idUSKBN0GY2C820140903.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Elizabeth Gibney (3 September 2014). "Earth's new address: 'Solar System, Milky Way, Laniakea'". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2014.15819. http://www.nature.com/news/earth-s-new-address-solar-system-milky-way-laniakea-1.15819.
8. ↑ Quenqua, Douglas (3 September 2014). "Astronomers Give Name to Network of Galaxies". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/science/space/astronomers-give-name-to-network-of-galaxies.html.
9. ↑ Carlisle, Camille M. (3 September 2014). "Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster". Sky and Telescope. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/laniakea-home-supercluster-09032014/.
10. ↑ Chon, Gayoung; Böhringer, Hans; Zaroubi, Saleem (2015). "On the definition of superclusters". Astronomy & Astrophysics 575: L14. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201425591. Bibcode: 2015A&A...575L..14C.
11. ↑ "Multimedia Gallery - | NSF - National Science Foundation". https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=79249.
12. ↑ "Astronomers define boundaries of our home supercluster and name it Laniakea | EarthSky.org" (in en-US). 3 September 2014. https://earthsky.org/space/laniakea-is-the-new-name-for-our-home-supercluster-of-galaxies.
13. ↑ Mitra, Shyamal (1989). "A Study of the Southern Supercluster". The World of Galaxies. New York, NY.: Springer. pp. 426–427. doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-9356-6_65. ISBN 978-1-4613-9358-0. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4613-9356-6_65. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
14. ↑ Fairall, Anthony Patrick (1988). "A redshift map of the Triangulum Australe-Ara region – Further indication that Centaurus and Pavo are one and the same supercluster". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 230 (1): 69–77. doi:10.1093/mnras/230.1.69. Bibcode: 1988MNRAS.230...69F.
15. ↑ News, U. H.. "Astronomers map massive structure beyond Laniakea Supercluster | University of Hawaiʻi System News" (in en-US). https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/07/10/laniakea-supercluster-mapping/.
16. ↑ Pomarède, Daniel; Tully, R. Brent; Graziani, Romain; Courtois, Hélène M.; Hoffman, Yehuda; Lezmy, Jérémy (2020-07-01). "Cosmicflows-3: The South Pole Wall". The Astrophysical Journal 897 (2): 133. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab9952. Bibcode: 2020ApJ...897..133P.

## Further reading

* R. Brent Tully; Hélène Courtois; Yehuda Hoffman; Daniel Pomarède (2 September 2014). "The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies". Nature 513 (7516): 71–3. 4 September 2014. doi:10.1038/nature13674. PMID 25186900. Bibcode: 2014Natur.513...71T.
* Meet Laniakea, Our Home Supercluster

## External links

* Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Vimeo, "Laniakea Supercluster", Daniel Pomarède, 4 September 2014—video representation of the findings of the discovery paper
* Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination YouTube, "Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster", Nature Video, 3 September 2014—Redrawing the boundaries of the cosmic map, they redefine our home supercluster and name it Laniakea.

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