Issue |
A&A
Volume 397, Number 2, January II 2003
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Page(s) | 431 - 443 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021495 | |
Published online | 17 December 2002 |
Structure and evolution of galaxy clusters:
Internal dynamics of ABCG 209 at
0.21*
1
Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Trieste, via Tiepolo 11, 34100 Trieste, Italy e-mail: mercurio,girardi,boschin@ts.astro.it
2
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, via Moiariello 16, 80100 Napoli, Italy e-mail: merluzzi,busarello@na.astro.it
Corresponding author: A. Mercurio, mercurio@na.astro.it or mercurio@ts.astro.it
Received:
24
July
2002
Accepted:
11
October
2002
We study the internal dynamics of the rich galaxy cluster ABGC 209 on the
basis of new spectroscopic and photometric data.
The distribution in redshift shows that ABCG 209 is a well isolated
peak of 112 detected member galaxies at , characterised
by a high value of the line–of–sight velocity dispersion,
–1400 km s-1, on the whole observed area (1
Mpc
from the cluster center), that leads to a virial mass of
–
within the virial radius,
assuming the dynamical equilibrium.
The presence of a velocity gradient in the velocity field, the
elongation in the spatial distribution of the colour–selected likely
cluster members, the elongation of the X–ray contour levels in the
Chandra image, and the elongation of cD galaxy
show that ABCG 209 is characterised by a preferential NW–SE
direction.
We also find a significant deviation of the velocity distribution from a
Gaussian, and relevant evidence of substructure and
dynamical segregation.
All these facts show that ABCG 209 is a strongly evolving cluster,
possibly in an advanced phase of merging.
Key words: galaxies: clusters: general / galaxies: clusters: individual: ABCG 209 / galaxies: distances and redshifts / intergalactic medium / cosmology: observations
© ESO, 2003
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