Collaborative Project: Large-Scale Motions in the Universe and the Intrinsic Properties of Early-Type Galaxies

该奖项支持的研究是亚利桑那州立大学、达特茅斯学院和北卡罗来纳大学的合作成果。参与这一项目的三名来自这些机构的天文学家在发现和调查附近星系运动中的大范围偏离均匀膨胀的情况方面一直处于领先地位。在这项研究中，他们将研究500个椭圆星系的内在性质，以确定它们相对于一般膨胀的特殊速度是否与研究区域中可见物质的分布有关。

The research supported by this award is a collaborative effort at Arizona State University, Dartmouth College, and the University of North Carolina. The three astronomers from these institutions involved in this project have been leaders in the discovery and investigation of large scale deviations from uniform expansion in the motion of nearby galaxies. In this investigation they will study the intrinsic properties of 500 elliptical galaxies to determine if their peculiar velocities, with respect to the general expansion, can be related to the distribution of visible matter in the regions under study.