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| Galaxy Luminosity Functions from Deep Spectroscopic Samples of Rich Clusters
Using a new spectroscopic sample and methods accounting forspectroscopic sampling fractions that vary in magnitude and surfacebrightness, we present R-band galaxy luminosity functions (GLFs) for sixnearby galaxy clusters with redshifts of 4000 kms-1
| Nature and environment of Very Luminous Galaxies
The most luminous galaxies in the blue passband have a largercorrelation amplitude than L* galaxies. They do not appear tobe preferentially located in rich clusters or groups, but a significantfraction of them seem to be in systems which include fainter members. Wepresent an analysis of fields centered on 18 Very Luminous Galaxies(MB <=-21) selected from the Southern Sky Redshift Survey2, based on new observations and public data of the 2dF Galaxy RedshiftSurvey; we present also additional data on a CfA VLG and on Arp 127. Wefind that all the selected VLGs are physically associated with faintercompanions. Moreover, there is a relation between the VLG morphology(early or late) and the dynamical properties of the system, whichreflects the morphology-density relation. 6 out of the 18 SSRS2 VLGs areearly type galaxies: 2 are in the center of rich Abell clusters withvelocity dispersion sigma ~ 600 km s-1, and the other 4are in poor clusters or groups with sigma ~ 300. The VLG extractedfrom the CfA catalog is also an elliptical in a Zwicky cluster. Theremaining 2/3 of the sample are late-type VLGs, generally found inpoorer systems with a larger spread in velocity dispersion, from ~ 100up to ~ 750 km s-1. The low velocity dispersion, late-typeVLG dominated systems appear to be analogous to our own Local Group. Thepossibile association of VLG systems with dark matter halos with masscomparable to rich groups or clusters, as suggested by the comparablecorrelation amplitude, would imply significant differences in the galaxyformation process. This work also shows that observing fields aroundVLGs represents an effective way of identifying galaxy systems which arenot selected through other traditional techniques.Figures 1, 2 and Appendix B are only available in electronic form athttp://www.edpsciences.org
| The Southern Sky Redshift Survey
We report redshifts, magnitudes, and morphological classifications for5369 galaxies with m_B <= 15.5 and for 57 galaxies fainter than thislimit, in two regions covering a total of 1.70 sr in the southerncelestial hemisphere. The galaxy catalog is drawn primarily from thelist of nonstellar objects identified in the Hubble Space TelescopeGuide Star Catalog (GSC). The galaxies have positions accurate to ~1"and magnitudes with an rms scatter of ~0.3 mag. We compute magnitudes(m_SSRS2) from the relation between instrumental GSC magnitudes and thephotometry by Lauberts & Valentijn. From a comparison with CCDphotometry, we find that our system is homogeneous across the sky andcorresponds to magnitudes measured at the isophotal level ~26 magarcsec^-2. The precision of the radial velocities is ~40 km s^-1, andthe redshift survey is more than 99% complete to the m_SSRS2 = 15.5 maglimit. This sample is in the direction opposite that of the CfA2; incombination the two surveys provide an important database for studies ofthe properties of galaxies and their large-scale distribution in thenearby universe. Based on observations obtained at Cerro TololoInter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories,operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy,Inc., under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation;Complejo Astronomico El Leoncito, operated under agreement between theConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas de laRepública Argentina and the National Universities of La Plata,Córdoba, and San Juan; the European Southern Observatory, LaSilla, Chile, partially under the bilateral ESO-ObservatórioNacional agreement; Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory;Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica, Brazil; and the SouthAfrican Astronomical Observatory.
| Corrections and additions to the third reference catalogue of bright galaxies
List of corrections and additions to the Third Reference Catalogue ofBright Galaxies (RC3) are given. The corrected version of the catalogue(RC3.9b), dated April 1994, is currently available through the nationaldata centers.
| The morphological catalogue of galaxies equatorial survey
We present 865 redshifts of galaxies located in the equatorial stripdelta between -17.5 deg and -2.5 deg in the right ascension rangebetween 20 h and 5 h. Redshifts have been obtained for the completesample of all 833 galaxies in the Morphological Catalog of Galaxies withmagnitudes brighter than m = 14.5 (corresponding approximately tom(Zwicky) = 15.0). This sample also includes three galaxies from othersources with more reliable magnitudes, satisfying this limit, and 29fainter galaxies, usually companions of the galaxies in the magnitudelimited sample. Our maps of a very large volume of nearby spacedemonstrate a variety of coherent large scale structures which includelarge voids, 20-50/h Mpc in diameter and large walls at least 70/h Mpcacross.
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