Galaxy groups form the environment of the majority of galaxies in the local Universe, and many host an extended hot intra-group medium whose radiative cooling appears to fuel, and be stabilised by, feedback from AGN in group-central galaxies. Unfortunately studies of the physical properties of groups and the influence of AGN on their member galaxies and gaseous haloes have been limited by a lack of reliable representative samples of groups in the local Universe. To address this problem, we have assembled the Complete Local-Volume Groups Sample (CLoGS), an optically-selected statistically-complete sample of 53 groups within 80 Mpc, which we aim to observe in both low-frequency radio and X-ray wavebands. We here describe results from the first half of the sample, for which X-ray and radio observations are complete. Roughly 55% of the groups have group-scale X-ray halos, of which ~65% have cool cores a similar fraction to that found in galaxy clusters. While 25 of the 26 group central galaxies host radio AGN, among the X-ray bright groups only the cool core systems are found to support central jet sources.
@article{arxiv.1402.4676,
title = {First Results from the Complete Local-Volume Groups Sample},
author = {Ewan O'Sullivan and Konstantinos Kolokythas and Somak Raychaudhury and Jan M. Vrtilek and Nimisha Kantharia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.4676},
year = {2014}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of The Metrewavelength Sky conference held at NCRA-TIFR, Pune, from 9-13 December, references updated