A normal abundance of faint satellites in the fossil group NGC 6482

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Table 4

Luminosity function faint end slopes in literature.


Group/cluster	α	Band	Reference

Virgo	−1.30	B	Sandage et al. (1985)
Coma	−1.41	R	Secker et al. (1997)
Hydra I	−1.13	V	Misgeld et al. (2008)
Centaurus	−1.14	V	Misgeld et al. (2009)
Hercules	−1.29	V	Sánchez-Janssen et al. (2005)
Fornax	−1.1	V	Hilker et al. (2003)
Perseus	−1.26	B	Penny & Conselice (2008)

Diff. env.^a	−1.19	R	Trentham & Tully (2002)

2dF	−1.28	b _J	De Propris et al. (2003)

NGC 6482	−1.32	R	this study

Notes. Faint end slopes α were derived by a single Schechter function fit.

^(a)

Composite LF (linear fit) of five different environments with varying galaxy density.

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