Shapley Supercluster is catalogued in this registry as a structure, held in the frame of CMB Rest Frame, from Large-scale structures (curated).
Registry id LSS_SHAPLEY ·
source layer largescale ·
provenance PROCESSED — derived deterministically from source catalogues (unit, frame and epoch conversions, cross-source reconciliation) — no value invented
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| Kind | structure |
|---|---|
| Origin | natural |
Large-scale structure — supercluster. z = 0.0474; comoving distance MODELLED from z (flat ΛCDM, Planck 2018: H0 67.7, Ωm 0.31) → ~208 Mpc — a comoving distance is where the object sits NOW in the model, not how far its light travelled, so dividing it by c does not give a light-travel time. Anchor: its richest cluster, ACO 3558 (SIMBAD position + redshift). Extent: the richest concentration of Abell clusters in the z ≲ 0.1 universe. The remarkable concentration of galaxies behind the Great Attractor direction, identified in Shapley's Centaurus survey plates and established as the most massive nearby supercluster. [Raychaudhury 1989]
Reproduced as the source wrote it. Author-year citations link to their DOI where one is registered.
These are absences in the catalogues aggregated here, not measurements of zero, and not statements that the quantity is unknown to science:
| Database | Large-scale structures (curated) |
|---|---|
| Authority | Published cosmography (Tully et al. 2014 Laniakea; de Vaucouleurs 1953; Raychaudhury 1989; Haynes & Giovanelli 1986; Lynden-Bell et al. 1988; Geller & Huchra 1989; Gott et al. 2005; Horváth et al. 2014/2015 + Ukwatta & Woźniak 2016; Kirshner et al. 1981/1987; Tully et al. 2008/2019; Keenan et al. 2013; Tully 1986 + Einasto et al. 1997; Pomarède et al. 2020; Clowes et al. 2013), anchors via SIMBAD/NED |
| Licence | Public astronomical facts (positions/redshifts/extents), per-record citations |
| How it entered | Curated data-as-code (src/ingest/catalogs/largescale.ts) |
| Coverage | 14 landmark structures above the galaxy-cluster scale — superclusters (Laniakea · Virgo/Local · Shapley · Perseus-Pisces · Pisces-Cetus complex), walls (CfA2 · Sloan · South Pole · the contested Hercules-Corona Borealis, shown with its published rebuttal), voids (Boötes · Local · KBC) + the Great Attractor and the Huge-LQG. Distances from z/cz are MODELLED through the flat-ΛCDM door (Planck 2018) and labelled; cosmological recession is the expansion of space, not motion through space — no drift is modelled |
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