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Collection of more than 1,500 galaxies
The Local Volume (LV) is a collection of more than 1,500 galaxies, within a spherical region centred on the Local Group with a radius of 12 megaparsecs from Earth or up to a radial velocity of redshift of z < 0.002. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Local VolumeA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Tidal Disruption Event Demographics with the Zwicky Transient Facility: Volumetric Rates, Luminosity Function, and Implications for the Local Black Hole Mass FunctionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Road surface management for local governmentsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Interstitial fluid volume: local regulatory mechanisms.Cited 322 times
- Go sideways: Evan D. SkillmanA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Robert KennicuttA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Interstitial fluid volume: local regulatory mechanisms.
ELVIS: Exploring the Local Volume in Simulations
DWARF GALAXY STARBURST STATISTICS IN THE LOCAL VOLUME
Minimal Local Anesthetic Volume for Peripheral Nerve Block
The Local Volume H i Survey (LVHIS)
TomoWarp2: A local digital volume correlation code
Local volume fraction fluctuations in heterogeneous media
AN AROMATIC INVENTORY OF THE LOCAL VOLUME
🆕 Influential since 2022
Tidal Disruption Event Demographics with the Zwicky Transient Facility: Volumetric Rates, Luminosity Function, and Implications for the Local Black Hole Mass Function
The Exploration of Local VolumE Satellites (ELVES) Survey: A Nearly Volume-limited Sample of Nearby Dwarf Satellite Systems
The DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey Data Release 2
The SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): Scientific Motivation and Project Overview
Completeness of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) Local Volume Sample
đź“š Books worth reading
Road surface management for local governmentsLouis B. Stephens · 1985- 📕Road surface management for local governmentsLouis B Stephens · 1985
- 📕Walking seasonal roadsMary A. Hood · 2012
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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