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A. P. Mahtessian 《Astrophysics》1997,40(1):25-35
The CfAl Catalog of Huchra et al. is examined for identification of groups of galaxies with the use of a variation of the
percolation method previously used by Huchra and Geller. The main difference between our method and Huchra-Geller method is
in the selection criterion for components. We use the value of the gravitational field potential to determine component galaxies.
This approach is physically more valid than the distances between galaxies. It is shown that the selection parameters E0 and V0 need not be changed with distance to account for changes in the observed luminosity function of galaxies. Thus, it is unnecessary
in our approach to use the luminosity function of galaxies for identification of groups. The dependence of the main characteristics
of groups on the selection parameters is investigated. The interval of the selection parameters within which the group characteristics
are least dependent on these parameters is determined. Groups of galaxies detected with any pairs of E0 and V0 values from these intervals can be considered essentially real.
Translated fromAstrofizika, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 45–60, February, 1997. 相似文献
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We report a list of groups consisting of dwarf galaxies only. The sample contains 126 objects, mainly combined in pairs. The
most populated group contains six dwarf galaxies. The majority of systems considered reside in the low-density regions and
evolve unaffected by massive galaxies. The characteristic sizes and velocity dispersions of groups are 30 kpc and 11 km/s,
respectively. They resemble the associations of dwarf galaxies, but are more compact. On the whole, groups and associations
form a continuous sequence. Alike the associations, our groups possess high mass-to-luminosity ratios, what is indicative
of a large amount of dark matter present in these systems. 相似文献
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A. Elyiv O. Melnyk I. Vavilova 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,394(3):1409-1418
A geometric method based on the high-order 3D Voronoi tessellation is proposed for identifying single galaxies, pairs and triplets. This approach allows us to select small galaxy groups and isolated galaxies in different environments and to find the isolated systems. The volume-limited sample of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 spectroscopic survey was used. We conclude that in such small groups as pairs and triplets, segregation by luminosity is clearly observed: galaxies in isolated pairs and triplets are on average two times more luminous than isolated galaxies. We consider the dark matter content in different systems. The median values of mass-to-luminosity ratio are 12 M⊙ /L⊙ for the isolated pairs and 44 M⊙ /L⊙ for the isolated triplets, and 7 (8) M⊙ /L⊙ for the most compact pairs (triplets). We also found that systems in denser environments have greater rms velocity and mass-to-luminosity ratio. 相似文献
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We analyze a sample of the Local Volume that contains 451 galaxies within 10 Mpc. We compare the various global parameters of these galaxies with their tidal index that characterizes the local density of the environment. The closest correlation is observed between the density of the galaxy’s environment and its morphological type. The abundance of neutral hydrogen in the members of close groups was found to be, on average, a factor of 3 lower than that in isolated galaxies. However, much of this difference is attributable to different morphological composition for the group members and field galaxies. The total mass-to-luminosity ratio is virtually independent of the tidal index of the galaxy, which indirectly indicates a low percentage of tidal systems among dwarf galaxies. All of the galaxies with three or more companions in the Local Volume are shown to have masses above the threshold value of 1010M⊙. 相似文献
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Galaxy evolution by interaction‐driven transformation is probably highly efficient in groups of galaxies. Dwarf galaxies with their shallow potential are expected to reflect the interaction most prominently in their observable structure. The major aim of this series of papers is to establish a data base which allows to study the impact of group interaction onto the morphology and star‐forming properties of dwarf galaxies. Firstly, we present our selection rules for target groups and the morphological selection method of target dwarf member candidates. Secondly, the spectroscopic follow‐up observations with the HET are presented. Thirdly, we applied own reduction methods based on adaptive filtering to derive surface photometry of the candidates. The spectroscopic follow‐up indicate a dwarf identification success rate of roughly 55 %, and a group member success rate of about 33 %. A total of 17 new low surface‐brightness members is presented. For all candidates, total magnitudes, colours, and light distribution parameters are derived and discussed in the context of scaling relations. We point out short comings of the SDSS standard pipeline for surface photometry for these dim objects. We conclude that our selection strategy is rather efficient to obtain a sample of dim, low surface brightness members of groups of galaxies within the Virgo super‐cluster. The photometric scaling relation in these X‐ray dim, rather isolated groups does not significantly differ from those of the galaxies within the local volume. (© 2014 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
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Crystal M. Brasseur Alan W. McConnachie Sara L. Ellison David R. Patton 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,392(3):1141-1152
We examine the properties of galaxies in compact groups (CGs) identified in a mock galaxy catalogue based upon the Millennium Run simulation. The overall properties of groups identified in projection are in general agreement with the best available observational constraints. However, only ∼30 per cent of these simulated groups are found to be truly compact in three dimensions, suggesting that interlopers strongly affect our observed understanding of the properties of galaxies in CGs. These simulations predict that genuine CG galaxies are an extremely homogeneous population, confined nearly exclusively to the red sequence: they are best described as 'red and dead' ellipticals. When interlopers are included, the population becomes much more heterogeneous, due to bluer, star-forming, gas-rich, late-type galaxies incorrectly identified as CG members. These models suggest that selection of members by redshift, such that the line-of-sight velocity dispersion of the group is less than 1000 km s−1 , significantly reduces contamination to the 30 per cent level. Selection of members by galaxy colour, a technique used frequently for galaxy clusters, is also predicted to dramatically reduce contamination rates for CG studies. 相似文献
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Manuel Merchán Ariel Zandivarez 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,335(1):216-222
We construct a galaxy groups catalogue from the public 100-K data release of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. The group identification is carried out using a slightly modified version of the group-finding algorithm developed by Huchra & Geller. Several tests using mock catalogues allow us to find the optimal conditions to increase the reliability of the final group sample. A minimum number of four members, an outer number density enhancement of 80 and a linking radial cut-off of 200 km s−1 are the best obtained values from the analysis. Using these parameters, approximately 90 per cent of groups identified in real space have a redshift space counterpart. On the other hand, the level of contamination in redshift space reaches 30 per cent, including ∼6 per cent of artificial groups and ∼24 per cent of groups associated with binaries or triplets in real space. The final sample comprises 2209 galaxy groups covering the sky region described by Colless et al.spanning over the redshift range of 0.003 ≤ z ≤ 0.25 with a mean redshift of 0.1. 相似文献
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It is more appropriate to study the dynamics and evolution of compact groups using a sample of isolated compact groups in
the nearby vicinity of which there are no accordant redshift galaxies. To look for isolated compact groups we inspected the
environment of 78 Shakhbazian compact groups, with known redshifts. We found that 26 of nearby groups with V < 40000 km s−1 are isolated compact groups in the vicinity of which up to a projected distance of 1 Mpc there are no accordant redshift
galaxies. For four of them, the redshift of only two members are known, so their being groups is not certain. In the vicinities
of eleven distant groups (V > 40000 km s−1) no accordant redshift galaxies are detected as well. The reason for this may be the faintness of galaxies there. These groups
may possibly be isolated. 相似文献
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Halton Arp 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》1987,8(3):241-255
Galaxies of redshiftz ≲ 1000 km s−1 are investigated. In the South Galactic Hemisphere there are two large concentrations of these galaxies. One is in the direction
of the centre of the Local Group, roughly aligned with M 31 and M 33. The other concentration is centred almost 80 degrees
away on the sky and involves the next nearest galaxies to the Local Group, NGC 55, NGC 300 and NGC 253.
The large scale and isolation of these concentrations, and the continuity of their redshifts require that they are all galaxies
at the same, relatively close distance of the brightest group members. The fainter members of the group have higher redshifts,
mimicking to some extent a Hubble relation. But if they are all at the same average distance the higher redshifts must be
due to a cause other than velocity.
The redshifts of the galaxies in the central areas of these groups all obey a quantization interval of δcz0 = 72.4 kms−1. This is the same quantization found by William Tifft, and later by others, in all physical groups and pairs which have been
tested. The quantization discovered here, however, extends over a larger interval in redshift than heretofore encountered.
The majority of redshifts used in the present analysis are accurate to ± 8 km s−1. The deviation of those redshifts from multiples of 72.4 km s-1 averages ±8.2 km s−1. The astonishing result, however, is that for those redshifts which are known more accurately, the deviation from modulo
72.4 drops to a value between 3 and 4 km s−1! The amount of relative velocity allowed these galaxies is therefore implied to be less than this extremely small value. 相似文献
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The relationship between the rotation curves for the galaxies and the distribution of mass and angular momentum within the
galaxies is examined. The theory of angular momentum transfer is applied to the observed properties of the galaxies. The coupling
between the dynamical mass of a spiral galaxy and its luminosity is studied. Most of the spiral galaxies in subclusters surrounding
NGC 4889, NGC 4874, and NGC 4839 in the Coma cluster are galaxies that have lower luminosities, with MB fainter than −21m.5. These galaxies are characterized by a higher mass-to-luminosity ratio than that of the galaxies with higher luminosities
MB brighter than −21m.5, which suggests the presence of a large fraction of dark matter in the spiral galaxies of the subclusters.
Translated from Astrofizika, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 75–84 (February 2009). 相似文献
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Alan W. McConnachie David R. Patton Sara L. Ellison Luc Simard 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,395(1):255-268
We present the largest publicly available catalogue of compact groups (CGs) of galaxies identified using the original selection criteria of Hickson, selected from the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS DR6). We identify 2297 CGs down to a limiting magnitude of r = 18 (∼0.24 groups deg−2 ), and 74 791 CGs down to a limiting magnitude of r = 21 (∼6.7 groups deg−2 ). This represents 0.9 per cent of all galaxies in the SDSS DR6 at these magnitude levels. Contamination due to gross photometric errors has been removed from the bright sample of groups, and we estimate it is present in the large sample at the 14 per cent level. Spectroscopic information is available for 4131 galaxies in the bright catalogue (43 per cent completeness), and we find that the median redshift of these groups is z med = 0.09 . The median line-of-sight (LOS) velocity dispersion within the CGs from the bright catalogue is σLOS ≃ 230 km s−1 , and their typical intergalactic separations are of the order of 50–100 kpc. We show that the fraction of groups with interloping galaxies identified as members is in good agreement with the predictions from our previous study of a mock galaxy catalogue, and we demonstrate how to select CGs such that the interloper fraction is well defined and minimized. This observational data set is ideal for large statistical studies of CGs, the role of environment on galaxy evolution and the effect of galaxy interactions in determining galaxy morphology. 相似文献
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R. A. Kandalyan 《Astrophysics》2005,48(1):99-110
Radio observations with the VLA-A radio telescope of 30 OH megamaser galaxies at a frequency of 1.49 GHz are discussed. Radio emission was detected from all 30 of these galaxies. Radio emission was detected from 5 of the 30 objects for the first time. Important results were obtained for 12 galaxies that had previously been little studied in the radio continuum. Additional data at 1.49 GHz were obtained for the remaining 13 objects. The core component of the continuum radio emission predominates in the OH megamaser galaxies.Translated from Astrofizika, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 125–138 (February 2005). 相似文献
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Chandreyee Sengupta † Ramesh Balasubramanyam K. S. Dwarakanath 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,378(1):137-147
Environment plays an important role in the evolution of the gas contents of galaxies. Gas deficiency of cluster spirals and the role of the hot intracluster medium in stripping gas from these galaxies is a well-studied subject. Loose groups with diffuse X-ray emission from the intragroup medium (IGM) offer an intermediate environment between clusters and groups without a hot IGM. These X-ray bright groups have smaller velocity dispersion and lower temperature than clusters, but higher IGM density than loose groups without diffuse X-ray emission. A single-dish comparative study of loose groups with and without diffuse X-ray emission from the IGM, showed that the galaxies in X-ray bright groups have lost more gas on average than the galaxies in non X-ray bright groups. In this paper we present GMRT H i observations of 13 galaxies from four X-ray bright groups: NGC 5044, 720, 1550 and IC1459. The aim of this work is to study the morphology of H i in these galaxies and to see if the hot IGM has in any way affected their H i content or distribution. In addition to disturbed H i morphology, we find that most galaxies have shrunken H i discs compared to the field spirals. This indicates that IGM-assisted stripping processes like ram pressure may have stripped gas from the outer edges of the galaxies. 相似文献
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A correlation analysis is made of the spatial distribution of galaxies in the Coma, Bridge, and A1367 clusters, which form
the Coma supercluster. The scale of the clustering of galaxies and the variation in their density distribution with the main
parameters of the galaxies– luminosity, morphological type, and observed H I deficiency in the 21 cm line– are evaluated.
The mass-to-luminosity ratios are computed for the spiral galaxies in the Coma, Bridge, and A1367 clusters. It is suggested
that a larger fraction of hypothetical dark matter may be concentrated in the spiral galaxies which predominantly populate
the subclusters previously identified by us within these clusters than in the spiral galaxies observed in the peripheral regions
of the clusters. 相似文献
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Groups of galaxies are identified on the basis of the CfA2 redshift survey and a method proposed by one of the authors. Of
the 15577 galaxies that have redshifts of 1000-15000 km/s and lie at galactic latitudes |bII| ≥ 20° , 1971 groups with n ≥
2 members were found, with a combined total number of 6787 members. The remaining 8790 (56.4%) galaxies constitute a sample
of “single,” isolated galaxies. The dispersion in the radial velocities of the groups and their radii are found to depend
weakly on the distance to the observer. 相似文献
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S. Boissier A. Boselli N. Prantzos G. Gavazzi 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,321(4):733-742
We study the star formation history of normal spirals by using a large and homogeneous data sample of local galaxies. For our analysis we utilize detailed models of chemical and spectrophotometric galactic evolution, calibrated on the Milky Way disc. We find that star formation efficiency is independent of galactic mass, while massive discs have, on average, lower gas fractions and are redder than their low-mass counterparts; put together, these findings convincingly suggest that massive spirals are older than low-mass ones. We evaluate the effective ages of the galaxies of our sample and we find that massive spirals must be several Gyr older than low-mass ones. We also show that these galaxies (having rotational velocities in the 80–400 km s−1 range) cannot have suffered extensive mass losses, i.e. they cannot have lost during their lifetime an amount of mass much larger than their current content of gas+stars. 相似文献
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We analyze the properties of the clusters of galaxies in the region of the Ursa Major (UMa) supercluster using observational data from SDSS and 2MASS catalogs. The region studied includes a supercluster (with a galaxy and cluster overdensity of 3 and 15, respectively) and field clusters inside the 150-Mpc diameter surrounding region. The total dynamical mass of 10 clusters of galaxies in UMa is equal to 2.25 × 1015 M ⊙, and the mass of 11 clusters of galaxies in the UMa neighborhood is equal to 1.70 × 1015 M ⊙. The fraction of early-type galaxies brighter than M K * + 1 in the virialized regions of clusters is, on the average, equal to 70%, and it is virtually independent on the mass of the cluster. The fraction of these galaxies and their average photometric parameters are almost the same both for UMa clusters and for the clusters located in its surroundings. Parameters of the clusters of galaxies, such as infrared luminosities up to a fixed magnitude, the mass-to-luminosity ratio, and the number of galaxies have almost the same correlations with the cluster mass as in other samples of galaxies clusters. However, the scatter of these parameters for UMa member clusters is twice smaller than the corresponding scatter for field clusters, possibly, due to the common origin of UMa clusters and synchronized dynamical evolution of clusters in the supercluster. 相似文献
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D. J. Wilman † M. L. Balogh ‡ R. G. Bower J. S. Mulchaey A. Oemler Jr R. G. Carlberg V. R. Eke I. Lewis S. L. Morris R. J. Whitaker 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,358(1):88-100
We compare deep Magellan spectroscopy of 26 groups at 0.3 ≤ z ≤ 0.55 , selected from the Canadian Network for Observational Cosmology 2 field survey, with a large sample of nearby groups from the 2PIGG catalogue. We find that the fraction of group galaxies with significant [O ii ]λ3727 emission (≥5 Å) increases strongly with redshift, from ∼29 per cent in 2dFGRS to ∼58 per cent in CNOC2, for all galaxies brighter than ∼ M * + 1.75 . This trend is parallel to the evolution of field galaxies, where the equivalent fraction of emission-line galaxies increases from ∼53 to ∼75 per cent. The fraction of emission-line galaxies in groups is lower than in the field, across the full redshift range, indicating that the history of star formation in groups is influenced by their environment. We show that the evolution required to explain the data is inconsistent with a quiescent model of galaxy evolution; instead, discrete events in which galaxies cease forming stars (truncation events) are required. We constrain the probability of truncation ( P trunc ) and find that a high value is required in a simple evolutionary scenario neglecting galaxy mergers ( P trunc ≳ 0.3 Gyr−1 ) . However, without assuming significant density evolution, P trunc is not required to be larger in groups than in the field, suggesting that the environmental dependence of star formation was embedded at redshifts z ≳ 0.45 . 相似文献
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We have investigated the apparent variation of the surface brightness distribution of disc galaxies with distance within three different samples 1) a diameter limited sample of ESO catalogue galaxies in the direction of the cluster A3574 in Centaurus, 2) all ESO catalogue disc galaxies with redshifts, and 3) a sample of fainter galaxies from our surveys of the Fornax Cluster area. In each case we find, as predicted for a sample dominated by surface brightness selection effects, that the distribution narrows with distance. Both high and low surface brightness galaxies are underrepresented in galaxy catalogues. Not because they are rare, but because the volume over which they are sampled is considerably smaller than that of their normal surface brightness counterparts. The question of how many galaxies there are in the Universe remains un-answered. In addition, since selection is byapparent surface brightness, the most distant sample (where cosmological dimming becomes important) contains galaxies of higher intrinsic surface brightness than do the nearby samples, again confirming a previous theoretical prediction. The galaxies we observe in the distant Universe are very different to those we observe close by because of observational selection. 相似文献
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We have analysed, for the first time, the clustering properties of Wolf-Rayet (W-R) galaxies, using a large sample of 846 W-R galaxies selected from the Data Release 4 (DR4) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We compute the cross-correlation function between W- R galaxies and a reference sample of galaxies drawn from the DR4. We compare the function to the results for control samples of non-W-R star-forming galaxies that are matched closely in redshift, luminosity, concentration, 4000-A break strength and specific star formation rate (SSFR). On scales larger than a few Mpc, W-R galaxies have almost the same clustering amplitude as the control samples, indicating that W-R galaxies and non-W-R control galax- ies populate dark matter haloes of similar masses. On scales between 0.1-1 h-1 Mpc, W-R galaxies are less clustered than the control samples, and the size of the difference depends on the SSFR. Based on both observational and theoretical considerations, we speculate that this negative bias can be interpreted by W-R galaxies residing preferentially at the centers of their dark matter haloes. We examine the distribution of W-R galaxies more closely using the SDSS galaxy group catalogue of Yang et al., and find that ~82% of our W-R galaxies are the central galaxies of groups, compared to ~74% for the corresponding control galaxies. We find that W-R galaxies are hosted, on average, by dark matter haloes of masses of 1012,3 M☉, compared to 1012,1 M? For centrally-located W-R galaxies and 1012,7 M☉ For satellite ones. We would like to point out that this finding, which provides a direct observational support to our conjecture, is really very crude due to the small number of W-R galaxies and the incom- pleteness of the group catalogue, and needs more work in future with larger samples. 相似文献