Issue |
A&A
Volume 378, Number 3, November II 2001
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Page(s) | 740 - 747 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20011221 | |
Published online | 15 November 2001 |
Shakhbazian compact groups: Poor clusters of galaxies
1
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Optica y Electrónica, AP 51 y 216, 72000 Puebla, Pue., México e-mail: hrant@inaoep.mx
2
Sternwarte Königsleiten, München, Germany e-mail: htiersch@uni.de
Corresponding author: H. M. Tovmassian, hrant@inaoep.mx
Received:
3
May
2001
Accepted:
26
July
2001
The environment of 105 elongated () ShCGs is investigated for galaxies
probably associated with them. Counts of galaxies are made in two reciprocally
orthogonal stripes of
width and
length passing through
the center of each elongated group. The orientation of the first stripe is
determined by the orientation of elongation of the distribution of the principal members of groups. It is found that there is an excess of galaxies in the narrow stripes oriented along the elongation of the group. Such peculiar distribution of the loose group members allows us to conclude that they are gravitationally bound with the compact group, and rotate around the common gravitational center. It is shown that the new-found distant members compose, together with the principal members of the compact group, a gravitationally bound, and, most probably, virialized system. All members of the system rotate around the common gravitational center. It is concluded that ShCGs are the cores of poor clusters of galaxies. They must be not young, and are relatively stable configurations. The number of such groups could be very high in the Universe.
Key words: galaxies: general / galaxies: abundances / galaxies: clusters: general
© ESO, 2001
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