Ho'oleilana

See also: Hoʻoleilana

Translingual

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Alternative forms

• Hoʻoleilana

Etymology

From English Ho'oleilana, from Hawaiian

Proper noun

Ho'oleilana

1. (astronomy, cosmology) Ho'oleilana: A structure in local Universe

Translations

BAO in the local Universe

• English: Ho'oleilana
• French: Ho’oleilana
• German: Ho'oleilana f
• Hawaiian: Hoʻoleilana
• Portuguese: Ho'oleilana
• Spanish: Ho'oleilana

English

This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.

Alternative forms

• Hoʻoleilana

Etymology

From Hawaiian hoʻoleilei ka lana (“sent sounds of awakening”). Coined by R. Brent Tully, Cullan Howlett, and Daniel Pomarède in 2023; see quotation below.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhəʊ.əʊleɪˈlɑːnə/

Proper noun

Ho'oleilana

1. (astronomy, cosmology) Ho'oleilana A structure in local Universe; An assembly of superclusters and voids, forming a spherical assemblage of matter with a central peak, roughly 1-billion-lightyears across, located next to, but not containing, Laniakea, our local supercluster where the Earth is contained within. Thought to be a baryon acoustic oscillation (“BAO”), the first such discovered, and the nearest such found.
   • 2023, R. Brent Tully, Cullan Howlett, Daniel Pomarède, “Ho'oleilana: An Individual Baryon Acoustic Oscillation?”, in The Astrophysical Journal‎^[1], volume 954, number 2:

     In any event, this apparent ring structure at a distance of ∼250 Mpc from us is one of the largest structures observed in the nearby Universe to date and links together a number of hitherto disconnected components of our cosmic neighborhood. We name this remarkable structure "Ho'oleilana."
     fn: "Sent murmurs of awakening" from the Hawaiian Kumulipo creation chant: Ho'oleilei ka lana a ka Po uliuli, "From deep darkness came murmurs of awakening."

Hypernyms

• BAO
• baryon acoustic oscillation

 

Hyponyms

• Bootes Supercluster
• Bootes Supervoid
• CfA Great Wall
• Coma Supercluster
• Corona Borealis Supercluster
• Hercules Supercluster
• Sloan Great Wall

 

Descendants

• Translingual: Ho'oleilana
• Hawaiian: Hoʻoleilana

See also

• cluster
• cluster of galaxies
• cosmic web
• filament
• filament of galaxies
• galaxy cluster
• galaxy filament
• galaxy group
• galaxy sheet
• galaxy supercluster
• galaxy wall
• group
• group of galaxies
• sheet
• sheet of galaxies
• supercluster
• supercluster of galaxies
• supervoid
• void
• void cluster
• void filament
• void galaxy
• wall
• wall of galaxies

 

References

• Ho'oleilana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia