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Redshift maps have two principal distortions:
- Fingers of God: Radial stretching pointed at the
observer. They come about because of random velocities in
clusters of galaxies.
- Large over densities (walls) lead to a coherent "bulk" motion:
Walls appear denser and fluffier, voids bigger and emptier.
In this animation we repeatedly add and remove the effects of
the local (so-called "peculiar") velocities of the galaxies. The more
uniform picture shows the true positions; the "squeezed" one the positions
an observer at the center would measure using redshift as a distance indicator.
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