...[*]
Deceased 1996 September 22.
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... studies[*]
Tables 2, 3 and A.1 with their notes and Figs. A.1-A.3 are only available in electronic form at http://www.edpsciences.org
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...$H_{\rm0}$[*]
$H_{\rm0}$ is the Hubble constant, accepted hereafter as 75 km s$^{\rm -1}$ Mpc-1.
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... NED[*]
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/ - the NASA-IPAC Extragalactic Database.
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...${\sim}38\pm7\%$)[*]
Here and in other presented fractions the errors are given based on Poisson statistics of numbers of BCGs involved in each group.
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... MIDAS[*]
MIDAS is an acronym for the European Southern Observatory package - Munich Image Data Analysis System.
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... IRAF[*]
IRAF is distributed by National Optical Astronomical Observatories, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
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Copyright ESO 2001