| 词条 | Boötes void |
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The Boötes void (or The Great Nothing)[1] is an enormous, approximately spherical region of space, containing very few galaxies. It is located in the vicinity of the constellation Boötes, hence its name. Its center is located at approximately right ascension {{RA|14|50}} and declination {{DEC|46}}.[2] DescriptionAt nearly 330 million light-years in diameter[3] (approximately 0.27% of the diameter of the observable Universe), or nearly 236,000 Mpc3 in volume, the Boötes void is one of the largest-known voids in the Universe, and is referred to as a supervoid. Its discovery was reported by Robert Kirshner et al. (1981), as part of a survey of galactic redshifts. The center of the Boötes void is approximately 700 million light-years from Earth.[4] Other astronomers soon discovered that the void contained a few galaxies. In 1987, J. Moody, Robert P. Kirshner, G. MacAlpine, and S. Gregory published their findings of eight galaxies in the void.[5] M. Strauss and John Huchra announced the discovery of a further three galaxies in 1988, and Greg Aldering, G. Bothun, Robert P. Kirshner, and Ron Marzke announced the discovery of fifteen galaxies in 1989. By 1997, the Boötes void was known to contain 60 galaxies. According to astronomer Greg Aldering, the scale of the void is such that "If the Milky Way had been in the center of the Boötes void, we wouldn't have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s."[6] The Hercules Supercluster forms part of the near edge of the void.[2] So far, only 60 galaxies have been discovered in the Boötes void. Using a rough estimate of about 1 galaxy every 10 million light-years (4 times farther than Andromeda Galaxy from Earth), there should have been approximately 2,000 galaxies in the Boötes void.[7] OriginsThere are no apparent inconsistencies between the existence of the Boötes void and the Lambda-CDM model of cosmological evolution.[8] It has been theorized that the Boötes void was formed from the merger of smaller voids, much like the way in which soap bubbles coalesce to form larger bubbles. This would account for the small number of galaxies that populate a roughly tube-shaped region running through the middle of the void.[6] See also
Footnotes1. ^{{Cite journal | doi=10.2307/3981218| jstor=3981218|title = Big, Bigger... Biggest?| journal=Science News| volume=158| issue=7| pages=104–105|last1 = Cowen|first1 = Ron| year=2000}} 2. ^1 {{cite journal | url=http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1987ApJ...314..493K&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf | title=A survey of the Bootes void | author=Kirshner, Robert P. | author-link=Kirshner, Robert P. | author2=Oemler, Augustus, Jr. | author3=Schechter, Paul L. | author3-link=Schechter, Paul L. | author4=Shectman, Stephen A. | journal=Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 |date=Mar 1, 1987 | volume=314 | pages=493–506 | doi=10.1086/165080 | issn=0004-637X | bibcode=1987ApJ...314..493K}} 3. ^{{cite web |url = http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/educate/scimodule/Cosmogony/CosmogonyPDF/SpongyUniverseST.pdf |title = A Spongy Universe |accessdate = 2011-05-04}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2006/04/the-bootes-void/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-08-25 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807132705/http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2006/04/the-bootes-void/ |archivedate=2011-08-07 |df= }} 5. ^{{cite journal |title = Emission-line galaxies in the Bootes void |journal=The Astrophysical Journal|volume=314|pages=L33|date=March 1987|bibcode = 1987ApJ...314L..33M|last1 = Moody|first1 = J. Ward|last2=Kirshner|first2=Robert P.|last3=MacAlpine|first3=Gordon M.|last4=Gregory|first4=Stephen A.|doi=10.1086/184846}} 6. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n8_v16/ai_17253874 |title=Filling the void - understanding the formation of the Bootes void in intergalactic space - Brief Article |accessdate=2008-01-02 |date=August 1995 |work=Discover magazine |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071119011039/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n8_v16/ai_17253874 |archivedate=2007-11-19 |deadurl=yes |df= }} 7. ^{{cite web |url=http://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/blueshift/index.php/2013/07/30/jasons-blog-next-stop-voids/ |title=Next Stop: Voids |first=Jason |last=McCracken |date=July 30, 2013 |accessdate=December 8, 2017 |publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration |website=Blueship}} 8. ^"Cosmic_Voids" Retrieved on June 10, 2013 References
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