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A new catalogue of multiple galaxies in the Local Supercluster

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

To reveal small galaxy groups in the Local Supercluster, a new approach is suggested which allows for individual properties of galaxies. The criterion is based on the assumption of closed motions of companions around the dominating group member within a zero velocity sphere. The criterion is applied to a sample of 6321 nearby galaxies with radial velocities V03000V_0\le3000 km/s. The 3472 galaxies have been assigned to 839 groups that include 55% of the considered sample. For the groups revealed by the new algorithm (with k5k \geq 5 members) the median velocity dispersion is 86 km/s, the median harmonic radius is 247 kpc, the median crossing time is 0.08(1/H), and the median virial-mass-to-light ratio is 56M/L56 M_\odot/L_\odot.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9909343,
  title  = {A new catalogue of multiple galaxies in the Local Supercluster},
  author = {D. I. Makarov and I. D. Karachentsev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9909343},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages, 6 figures. Contribution to the IAU Colloquium 174 "Small Galaxy Groups", held at Turku on June 1999