| Issue |
A&A
Volume 470, Number 1, July IV 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 39 - 51 | |
| Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077245 | |
| Published online | 11 April 2007 | |
Substructures in WINGS clusters*
1
INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, via G. B. Tiepolo 11, 34143 Trieste, Italy e-mail: ramella@oats.inaf.it
2
Istituto di Istruzione Statale Classico Dante Alighieri, Scientifico Duca degli Abruzzi, Magistrale S. Slataper, viale XX settembre 11, 34170 Gorizia, Italy
3
INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, vicolo Osservatorio 5, 35122 Padova, Italy
4
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (C.S.I.C.) Apartado 3004, 18080 Granada, Spain
5
School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
6
Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Padova, vicolo Osservatorio 2, 35122 Padova, Italy
7
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA
8
Copenhagen University Observatory. The Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy Physics and Geophysics, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Received:
6
February
2007
Accepted:
3
April
2007
Aims.We search for and characterize substructures in the
projected distribution of galaxies observed in the wide field CCD images of the 77 nearby clusters of the WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS). This sample is complete
in X-ray flux in the redshift range 
.
Methods.We search for substructures in WINGS clusters with DEDICA, an adaptive-kernel procedure. We test the procedure on Monte-Carlo simulations of the observed frames and determine the reliability for the detected structures.
Results.DEDICA identifies at least one reliable structure in
the field of 55 clusters. 40 of these clusters have a total of 69 substructures at the same redshift of the cluster (redshift estimates
of substructures are from color–magnitude diagrams). The fraction of
clusters with subclusters (73%) is higher than in most studies.
The presence of subclusters affects the relative luminosities
of the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs). Down
to 
, our observed differential
distribution of subcluster luminosities is consistent
with the theoretical prediction of the differential mass function of
substructures in cosmological simulations.
Key words: galaxies: clusters: general / galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD
© ESO, 2007
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