
%0 Journal Article
%A Kraan-Korteweg, RC 
%A Henning, PA 
%A Woudt, PA 
%T Large-scale structures behind the southern Milky Way from observations of partially obscured galaxies
%J Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
%D 1997/04/01
%V 14
%N 1
%P 15-20
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AS97015
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AS97015 
%X We report here on extragalactic large-scale structures uncovered by a deep optical survey for galaxies behind the southern Milky Way. Systematic visual inspection of the ESO/SRC-survey revealed over 10000 previously unknown galaxies in the region 265 to 340 degrees. With subsequently obtained redshifts of more than 10% of these galaxies, new structures across the Milky Way are unveiled, such as a filament at 2500 km per sec connecting to the Hydra and Antlia clusters, a shallow extended supercluster in Vela (6000 km per sec), and a nearby (4882 km per sec), very massive, rich Coma-like cluster which seems to constitute the previously unidentified centre of the Great Attractor. The innermost part of the Milky Way remains fully opaque. In this approximately 8 degree wide strip, the forthcoming blind HI survey with the multi-beam system at Parkes will provide the only tool to unveil this part of the extragalactic sky. 
