Ho'oleilana

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From English Ho'oleilana, from Hawaiian

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Ho'oleilana

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

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English

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

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

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  • IPA(key): /ˌhəʊ.əʊleɪˈlɑːnə/

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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."

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  • Translingual: Ho'oleilana
  • Hawaiian: Hoʻoleilana

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