Peculiar Velocities of Galaxies Just Beyond the Local Group
  The Milky Way lies in a thin plane, the Local Sheet, a part of a wall
bounding the Local Void lying toward the north supergalactic pole. Galaxies
with accurate distances both above and below this supergalactic equatorial
plane have systematically negative peculiar velocities. The interpretation of
this situation is that the Local Void is expanding, giving members of the Local
Sheet deviant velocities toward the south supergalactic pole. The few galaxies
within the void are evacuating the void. Galaxies in a filament in the
supergalactic south are not feeling the expansion so their apparent motion
toward us is mainly a reflex of our motion. The model of the local velocity
field was uncertain because the apex of our motion away from the Local Void
lies in obscurity near the Galactic plane. Here, results of Hubble Space
Telescope infrared observations are reported that find tip of the red giant
branch distances to four obscured galaxies. All the distances are $\sim7$ Mpc,
revealing that these galaxies are part of a continuous filamentary structure
passing between the north and south Galactic hemispheres and sharing the same
kinematic signature of peculiar velocities toward us. A fifth galaxy nearby in
projection, GALFA-DW4, has an ambiguous distance. If nearby at $\sim 3$ Mpc,
this galaxy has an anomalous velocity away from us of +348 km/s. Alternatively,
perhaps the resolved stars are on the asymptotic giant branch and the galaxy is
beyond 6 Mpc whence the observed velocity would not be unusual.
