Galaxy Superclusters Detected in the Modified PF-Catalog Using the FOF Method
| Autor: | E. Panko |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
Astronomy Astronomy and Astrophysics Type-cD galaxy QB1-991 Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Galaxy Space and Planetary Science Supercluster general Galaxy group galaxies superclusters clusters Interacting galaxy Brightest cluster galaxy Galaxy cluster Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics Dwarf galaxy |
| Zdroj: | Open Astronomy, Vol 20, Iss 2, Pp 313-316 (2011) |
| ISSN: | 2543-6376 |
| Popis: | The Modified Catalog of Galaxy Clusters and Groups (Panko & Flin 2006, PF), covering an area of 5000 square degrees in the southern sky, was used as the input for the search of galaxy superclusters. Only the estimated redshifts could be used, since the PF catalog is a 2D catalog, with the calibration correlating the redshift of galaxy clusters with the magnitude of the tenth brightest cluster galaxy. Only galaxy clusters containing more than 50 galaxies were considered, and the FoF method was applied. The nearest neighbour distances for 1711 input clusters were calculated and analyzed, and 20 isolated clusters were found with the nearest neighbour at a distance greater than 68 h-1Mpc. A distance of 24 h-1 Mpc between clusters was selected for the supercluster search, and 49 superclusters containing from 4 to 9 galaxy clusters were detected. Calculations for each supercluster include: its inferred center, RA, Dec, zest, the maximum distance between supercluster members and the estimated supercluster shapes. A typical size of superclusters identified here is about 55 h-1 Mpc, and they appear mainly as elongated pancakes, with a weak correlation between the axes c/a and b/a, without a strong dependence on multiplicity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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