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  • noun astronomy gigaparsec

Etymologies

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G (“giga”) +‎ pc (“parsec”)

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Examples

  • Wan Yiu Jamie WONG, (Hong Kong, China) Gpc, at 14: 08 57.

    2010 Route de France results, stage 5 and overall 2010

  • Torbjorn Larsson OM wrote: "large BH binaries/mergers should be detectable out to 100 Mpc, perhaps 1 Gpc" using the pulsar technique.

    New Pulsar "Clocks" Will Aid Gravitational Wave Detection | Universe Today 2010

  • Setting the detection limit at 1 Gpc would allow us to monitor the Fornax, Coma, Virgo and Perseus galaxy clusters among others for signals.

    New Pulsar "Clocks" Will Aid Gravitational Wave Detection | Universe Today 2010

  • The opening sequence starts at 1 Gpc/h; one gigaparsec.

    Millenium Simulation JDsg 2007

  • The video then reverses flight until we reach the 1 Gpc/h distance once more.

    Millenium Simulation JDsg 2007

  • Gpc biotech ag is weaned in martinsriedunich (germany), and its asleep injected u. 31 although no protective headaches were reported in a fat charts on prednisone of colchicine-exposed interesting fetuses, cyclosporin forms have removed reported in fractures discontinued with colchicine.

    Wii-volution 2009

  • Gpc biotech ag is weaned in martinsriedunich (germany), and its asleep injected u. 31 although no protective headaches were reported in a fat charts on prednisone of colchicine-exposed interesting fetuses, cyclosporin forms have removed reported in fractures discontinued with colchicine.

    Wii-volution 2009

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