Draining the Local Void
  Two galaxies that lie deep within the Local Void provide a test of the
expectation that voids expand. The modest (M_B~-14) HI bearing dwarf galaxies
ALFAZOAJ1952+1428 and KK246 have been imaged with Hubble Space Telescope in
order to study the stellar populations and determine distances from the
luminosities of stars at the tip of the red giant branch. The mixed age systems
have respective distances of 8.39 Mpc and 6.95 Mpc and inferred line-of-sight
peculiar velocities of -114 km/s and -66 km/s toward us and away from the void
center. These motions compound on the Milky Way motion of ~230 km/s away from
the void. The orbits of the two galaxies are reasonably constrained by a
numerical action model encompassing an extensive region that embraces the Local
Void. It is unambiguously confirmed that these two void galaxies are moving
away from the void center at several hundred km/s.
