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Kinematics of the Hercules Supercluster

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Pauline Barmby1 and John P. Huchra1

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     The Hercules supercluster consists of the Abell clusters A2147, A2151, and A2152. Previous studies of the kinematics have been confounded by the difficulty of correctly assigning galaxies to the individual clusters, which are not well separated. Our study has a total of 468 available velocities for galaxies in the region, 175 of them new. There are 414 galaxies in the supercluster, about 3 times the number used in the previous supercluster study. We verify the existence of the three individual clusters and compute their individual dynamical parameters. We investigate several techniques for assigning galaxy membership to clusters in this crowded field. We use the KMM mixture-modeling algorithm to separate the galaxies into clusters; we find that A2152 has a higher mean velocity than previous studies have reported. A2147 and A2152 also have lower velocity dispersions: 821 and 715 km s-1, respectively. The assignment of galaxies to either A2152 or A2147 requires velocity and position information. We study the kinematics of the supercluster using the two-body formalism of Beers, Geller, & Huchra and conclude that A2147 and A2151 are probably bound to each other and that the supercluster as a whole may also be bound. The mass of the supercluster, if bound, is (7.6 ± 2.0) × 1015 h-1 Modot; with the supercluster luminosity, (1.4 ± 0.2) × 1013 h-2 Lodot, this yields Ω ≈ 0.34 ± 0.1.


Keywords

cosmology: observations; dark matter; galaxies: clusters: individual (Hercules)


Dates

Issue 1 (1998 January)

Received 1997 August 13, accepted for publication 1997 September 25


An Erratum for this article has been published in 1998 The Astronomical Journal 116 1508


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