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Catalog of Nearby Galaxies and the Local Cosmic Web

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We compiled an all-sky catalog of 451 nearby galaxies, each having an individual distance estimate D\la10D \la 10 Mpc or the radial velocity VLG<550V_{LG} < 550 km s1^{-1}. 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 75\sim75% within 8 Mpc. About 85% of the Local volume population are dwarf (dIrr, dIm, dSph) galaxies with MB>17.0M_B>-17.0, which contribute about 4% to the local luminosity density, and (1016)\sim(10-16)% to the local HI mass density. We found that the mean local barion density Ωb(<8\Omega_b(<8 Mpc) = 2.3% consists of only a half of the global barion density, Ωb=(4.7±0.6)\Omega_b=(4.7\pm0.6)% (Spergel et al. 2003). The mean-square pairwise difference of radial velocities is about 100 km s1^{-1} for spatial separations within 1 Mpc, increasing to 300\sim 300 km s1^{-1} on a scale of 3\sim 3 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}
}

Comments

6 pages, 5 figures, in proceedings of "Nearby Large-Scale Structures and the Zone of Avoidance", Cape Town, ed. A.Fairall