Groups of Galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey

dc.creatorTucker, D. L.
dc.creatorHashimoto, Y.
dc.creatorKirshner, R. P.
dc.creatorLandy, S. D.
dc.creatorLin, H.
dc.creatorOemler, A.
dc.creatorSchechter, P. L.
dc.creatorShectman, S. A.
dc.date1997-11-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:25:07Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:25:07Z
dc.descriptionA "friends-of-friends" percolation algorithm has been used to extract a catalogue of drho/rho = 80 density enhancements (groups) from the six slices of the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS). The full catalogue contains 1495 groups and includes 35% of the LCRS galaxy sample. A statistical sample of 394 groups has been derived by culling groups from the full sample which either are too close to a slice edge, have a crossing time greater than a Hubble time, have a corrected velocity dispersion of zero or less, or contain a 55 arcsec "orphan" (a galaxy with a "faked" redshift excluded from the original LCRS redshift catalogue due to its proximity --- i.e., within 55 arcsec --- of another galaxy). Median properties derived from the statistical sample include: line-of-sight velocity dispersion sigma_los = 164 km/s, crossing time t_cr = 0.10/H_0, harmonic radius R_h = 0.58/h Mpc, pairwise separation R_p = 0.64/h Mpc, virial mass M_vir = (1.90x10^13)/h M_sun, total group R-band luminosity L_tot = (1.40x10^11)/h^2 L_sun, and R-band mass-to-light ratio M/L = 153h M_sun/L_sun.
dc.description11 pages, LaTeX. A poster paper which appeared at the the 12th Potsdam Cosmology Workshop, "Large Scale Structure: Tracks and Traces". A 2-page writeup of the poster will appear in the conference proceedings and is presently available at http://manaslu.astro.utoronto.ca:80/~lin/ConfProc/ConfProc.html and at http://www.aip.de:8080/~tucker/ConfProc/ConfProc.html
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711176
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711176
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11806
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleGroups of Galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey
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