Conveners
Session 8: Wednesday
- Elmo Tempel (University of Tartu)
The deep SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (SMGPS) covers the whole southern Milky Way along a narrow strip of Δ𝑏 ∼ 3◦. While primarily aimed at exploring the inner Galaxy, the SMGPS provides a unique opportunity to trace the large-scale distribution of galaxies from their redshifted HI-line emission. Thanks to the excellent resolution and sensitivity of the SMGPS (rms = 0.30-0.60 mJy/beam),...
The Vela supercluster (VSCL) is an extended and massive supercluster located at l ~ 275°±15°; |b| < 10°, and cz ~ 18000 km s-1. Its location is of particular interest in view of its proximity to the apex, where residual bulk flows suggest a considerable surplus of mass. However, a major fraction of its extent has little data below Galactic latitudes of |b| < 7–8° because of the obscuration by...
A representative sample of nearby galaxies is the basis for solving various problems of extragalactic astronomy, a source of important information about galaxies, their formation and evolution, distribution in space and the formation of the large-scale structure of the Universe. The Local Volume, a sphere of about 10 Mpc radius, gives us a unique opportunity to observe a large number of dwarf...
