Issue |
A&A
Volume 378, Number 2, November I 2001
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Page(s) | 345 - 360 | |
Section | Astrophysical processes | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20011240 | |
Published online | 15 November 2001 |
Kinematics of the local universe
IX. The Perseus-Pisces supercluster and the Tolman-Bondi model
1
Tuorla Observatory, 21500 Piikkiö, Finland
2
Observatoire de Meudon, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France e-mail: gilles.theureau@obspm.fr
3
Osservatorio di Capodimonte, Via Moiariello 16, 80131 Naples, Italy
4
Observatoire de Lyon, 69561 Saint-Genis Laval Cedex, France
Corresponding author: M. Hanski, mihanski@astro.utu.fi
Received:
24
June
1999
Accepted:
5
September
2001
The matter distribution around the Perseus-Pisces (PP) supercluster is studied by comparing
peculiar velocities given by the Kinematics of the local universe (KLUN) galaxy sample to those predicted by Tolman-Bondi (TB) models. To restrict the TB solutions we first solve the mass of the densest part of PP. This part is identified as a sphere at ,
Mpc having a radius of
Mpc. This sphere surrounds the main part of the PP ridge and four most prominent clusters of the region. Using virial-like mass estimators we calculate the cluster masses and obtain the upper and lower limits for the mass inside the
Mpc sphere:
-
. This corresponds to a mass overdensity
, or
-
. Mass to light ratios of the clusters are
200 -600
, giving mass density ratio
-0.3, if the value of
is assumed to be representative elsewhere in the universe.
We estimate a radial density distribution around the PP core using two toy models and a smoothed density distribution observed for IRAS galaxies. The cosmological density parameters
and the PP mass are free parameters in the TB calculations. The KLUN velocities, obtained by Tully-Fisher relation and the normalized distance method, are adjusted by the Local Group (LG) infall velocity towards PP. Comparison of the TB velocities to KLUN data points indicates that the infall velocity
km s-1. Allowing MPP to vary within the limits given above we get constraints for the value of
;
-0.4 are prefered to the more extreme values,
or 1. A choice of either
or 0 do not cause any significant changes in the results.
The validity of the TB model in complex environments is studied with an N-body simulation. There we see that the radially averaged velocity fields around simulated clusters are compatible with the corresponding TB velocities. This confirms the applicability of the TB model around large galaxy concentrations, providing that smoothed density and radially averaged velocity fields are used.
Key words: galaxies: clusters: general / galaxies: clusters: individual: Pers-Pisc supercluster / cosmology: theory / cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe
© ESO, 2001
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