Local Group Formation Videos

These are supplemental videos for the preprint article:

"The Formation of Local Group Planes of Galaxies"

http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4297

by Ed Shaya and Brent Tully

Coordinates are supergalactic cartesian and the units of length is Megaparsecs. The Milky Way is yellow, M31 (Andromeda) is black, M33 (Triangulum) is purple, Plane 1 is blue, Plane 2 is green, Plane 3 is violet, Plane 4 is red.

View in the plane of LG Plane 1 and Plane 2 (Near M31, Andromeda Galaxy)
View in the plane of LG Plane 3 and Plane 4 (Near the Milky Way)