Talk:Saraswati Supercluster

Regarding the the name and distance from earth.
As per an article provided as citation that belongs to website of the "Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics", The team of astrophysicists from the university that discovered it, states and I quote,

This is one of the largest known structures in the nearby Universe, and is at a distance of 4,000 million (400 crore) light-years away from us.

A quick google search shows that 4,000 million converts to 4 billion. But since the former is specifically mentioned in the above article, I propose we stick to it. - ShotgunMavericks (talk) 23:58, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Indeed, 4 billion is ambiguous (see billion), depending on the different regions where English is used. 4000 million is not. Even though billion = 10^9 is quite widespread nowadays, the Wikipedia should be universal, which means it should try to avoid (when possible, as in this case) expressions like this, especially when authors emphasised this use. Eynar Oxartum (talk) 20:41, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

“Saraswati” (or “Sarasvati”), a word that has proto-Indo-European roots, is a name found in ancient Indian texts to refer to the major river around which the people of the ancient Indian civilization lived. It is also the name of the celestial goddess who is the keeper of the celestial rivers. In modern India, Saraswati is worshipped as the goddess of knowledge, music, art, wisdom and nature – the muse of all creativity.


 * http://www.iucaa.in/Saraswati-General.html

Got a bad feeling
Article says something about 2016. I can't find any mention of this before June/July 2017. As late as December 2016 all the news was about 'Vela' supercluster. In July 'Saraswati' is splashed all over Indian press like a celebrity murder.

Sorry, an article in "New Scientist" is not a reassuring occurrence. I saw mention at phys.org, but it sounded weird. That then references "Astrophysical Journal", but I can't find it there?

This has got 'recency' and self-importance vibes. This article really needs some additional academic/professional cites so that it doesn't read like mere nationalistic boosterism. Shenme (talk) 04:50, 17 July 2017 (UTC)


 * I initially read it in the Spanish media, but I didn't trust it 100% at first. However, I noticed that the arXiv preprint includes Somak Raychaudhury, a quite respected researcher (the discoverer of the well-known Shapley Supercluster in 1989). This alone makes me trust the article, although for an anonymous user this is not relevant. Accepted articles take some time before they are published, I think this might be the reason it does not appear yet in the Astrophysical Journal. Additionally, the first author has other peer-reviewed publications in this area including a Science in 2006 and five in the Astrophysical Journal, I don't see a reason not to trust it. Eynar Oxartum (talk) 20:31, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
 * It seems it appears already in The Astrophysical Journal, so I have changed the reference using the journal template instead of the arXiv template. Eynar Oxartum (talk) 13:25, 25 July 2017 (UTC)