Infrared luminosities of local-volume galaxies |
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| Authors: | I D Karachentsev A M Kutkin |
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| Institution: | (1) Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Arkhyz, 357147 Karachai-Cherkessian Republic, Russia;(2) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskii pr. 13, Moscow, 119992, Russia |
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| Abstract: | Based on data from the Two-Micrometer All-Sky Survey (2MASS), we analyzed the infrared properties of 451 Local-Volume galaxies at distances D ≤ 10 Mpc. We determined the K-band luminosity function of the galaxies in the range of absolute magnitudes from ?25m to ?11m. The local luminosity density within 8 Mpc is 6.8 × 108L⊙ Mpc?3, a factor of 1.5 ± 0.1 higher than the global mean K-band luminosity density. We determined the ratios of the virial mass to the K-band luminosity for nearby groups and clusters of galaxies. In the luminosity range from 5 × 1010 to 2 × 1013L⊙, the dependence log(M/LK) ∝ (0.27 ± 0.03) log LK with a dispersion of ～0.1 comparable to the measurement errors of the masses and luminosities of the systems of galaxies holds for the groups and clusters of galaxies. The ensemble-averaged ratio, 〈M/LK〉 ? (20–25) M⊙/L⊙, was found to be much smaller than the expected global ratio, (80–90)M⊙/L⊙, in the standard model with Ωm = 0.27. This discrepancy can be eliminated if the bulk of the dark matter in the Universe is not associated with galaxies and their systems. |
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| Keywords: | galaxies groups and clusters of galaxies galaxy masses and luminosities dark matter |
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