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An Investigation of the Radial Dependence of the Galaxy Luminosity Function in Abell Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Phyllis M Lugger
Phyllis M Lugger*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Indiana University, Swain West 319, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

Abstract

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The luminosity functions of inner and outer regions of six Abell clusters (A569, A1656, A2147, A2151, A2199, and A2634) were compared. These clusters have a single, reasonably symmetric central concentration of galaxies within the central Mpc. For three other clusters with irregular spatial distributions of galaxies (A779, A1367, and A2197) luminosity functions for high and low density regions were compared. For three of the clusters in the first group (A1656, A2147, and A2199) there is a deficit of bright galaxies, according to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Wilcoxon rank-sum nonparametric tests, in a region of radius 0.5 Mpc about the cluster center compared to a concentric annular region with bounds of 0.5 and 1.0 Mpc.

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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 127: Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies , 1987 , pp. 459 - 460
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Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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