The Mass Function of Nearby Galaxy Clusters
Astrophysics
2009-10-22 v1
Abstract
We present the distribution of virial masses for nearby galaxy clusters, as obtained from a data-set of 75 clusters, each having at least 20 galaxy members with measured redshifts within 1 Abell radius. After having accounted for problems of incompleteness of the data-set, we fitted a power-law to the cluster mass distribution.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9304009,
title = {The Mass Function of Nearby Galaxy Clusters},
author = {A. Biviano and M. Girardi and G. Giuricin and F. Mardirossian and M. Mezzetti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9304009},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages (2 figures not included, available upon request), LATEX, Ref.SISSA 54/93/A