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The Milky Way lies in a thin plane, the Local Sheet, a part of a wallbounding the Local Void lying toward the north supergalactic pole. Galaxieswith accurate distances both above and below this supergalactic equatorialplane have systematically negative peculiar velocities. The interpretation ofthis situation is that the Local Void is expanding, giving members of the LocalSheet deviant velocities toward the south supergalactic pole. The few galaxieswithin the void are evacuating the void. Galaxies in a filament in thesupergalactic south are not feeling the expansion so their apparent motiontoward us is mainly a reflex of our motion. The model of the local velocityfield was uncertain because the apex of our motion away from the Local Voidlies in obscurity near the Galactic plane. Here, results of Hubble SpaceTelescope infrared observations are reported that find tip of the red giantbranch distances to four obscured galaxies. All the distances are $\sim7$ Mpc,revealing that these galaxies are part of a continuous filamentary structurepassing between the north and south Galactic hemispheres and sharing the samekinematic signature of peculiar velocities toward us. A fifth galaxy nearby inprojection, 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 isbeyond 6 Mpc whence the observed velocity would not be unusual.

Peculiar Velocities of Galaxies Just Beyond the Local Group