IAU02707
Presentation type requested: ORAL
THE UNIVERSE BEHIND THE GALACTIC PLANE
Renee Kraan-Korteweg
Universidad de Guanajuato
The obscuring band of the Milky Way obscures our optical view of the Universe over about 20% of the sky. Infrared observations are able to probe to lower Galactic latitudes. But the most efficient way of finding nearby, obscured galaxies remains with the 21cm line of neutral hydrogen. We present a new view of the extragalactic sky behind the Milky Way, from observations taken with the 64-m Parkes telescope. Over 1000 new galaxies are catalogued and used to improve our knowledge of the Local Void, the Hydra-Centaurus region, and the many other voids, groups, filaments and superclusters in the nearby Universe.
Staveley-Smith Lister , Koribalski Baerbel , and the ZOA team
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