Streaming motions of galaxy clusters within 12000kms-1 - I. New spectroscopic data
Abstract
We present new spectroscopic data for 532 early-type galaxies, predominantly Abell cluster members with cz<12000kms-1. We tabulate 919 individual measurements, from six observing runs, for recession velocity, cz, central velocity dispersion, σ, and magnesium line-strength indices, Mg2 and Mgb. The median estimated error, per measurement, in σ is 5 per cent. The Mg2 line-strength data have median errors of 0.009mag. The observed scatter between repeat measurements is largely accounted for by photon-counting errors. These data will be employed in forthcoming papers, where they will form part of a merged and standardized catalogue of Fundamental Plane data for use in cluster distance estimates and peculiar velocity analyses.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- April 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03251.x
- Bibcode:
- 2000MNRAS.313..469S
- Keywords:
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- GALAXIES: CLUSTERS: GENERAL;
- GALAXIES: DISTANCES AND REDSHIFTS;
- GALAXIES: ELLIPTICAL AND LENTICULAR;
- CD;
- COSMOLOGY: OBSERVATIONS;
- LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE