Catalog of Nearby Galaxies and the Local Cosmic Web
Abstract
We compiled an all-sky catalog of 451 nearby galaxies, each having an individual distance estimate Mpc or the radial velocity km s. The catalog contains data on basic optical and HI properties of the galaxies: their diameters, absolute magnitudes, morphological types, optical and HI surface brightnesses, rotational velocities, indicative mass-to-luminosity and HI mass-to-luminosity ratios, as well as a so-called "tidal index", which quantifies the galaxy environment. We expect the catalog completeness to be % within 8 Mpc. About 85% of the Local volume population are dwarf (dIrr, dIm, dSph) galaxies with , which contribute about 4% to the local luminosity density, and % to the local HI mass density. We found that the mean local barion density Mpc) = 2.3% consists of only a half of the global barion density, % (Spergel et al. 2003). The mean-square pairwise difference of radial velocities is about 100 km s for spatial separations within 1 Mpc, increasing to km s on a scale of Mpc.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0410078,
title = {Catalog of Nearby Galaxies and the Local Cosmic Web},
author = {Igor D. Karachentsev and Valentina E. Karachentseva and Walter K. Huchtmeier and Dmitry I. Makarov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0410078},
year = {2007}
}
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6 pages, 5 figures, in proceedings of "Nearby Large-Scale Structures and the Zone of Avoidance", Cape Town, ed. A.Fairall