THE VELOCITY-FIELD OF CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES WITHIN 100 MEGAPARSECS .1. SOUTHERN CLUSTERS

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作者
MOULD, JR
STAVELEYSMITH, L
SCHOMMER, RA
BOTHUN, GD
HALL, PJ
HAN, MS
HUCHRA, JP
ROTH, J
WALSH, W
WRIGHT, AE
机构
[1] AUSTRALIA TELESCOPE NATL FACIL,EPPING,NSW 2121,AUSTRALIA
[2] CERRO TOLOLO INTERAMER OBSERV,LA SERENA,CHILE
[3] UNIV OREGON,EUGENE,OR 97403
[4] PAUL WILD OBSERV,NARRABRI,NSW 2390,AUSTRALIA
[5] HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CTR ASTROPHYS,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02138
[6] CARNEGIE INST WASHINGTON,LAS CAMPANAS OBSERV,WASHINGTON,DC 20005
[7] UNIV SYDNEY,DEPT ASTROPHYS,SYDNEY,NSW 2006,AUSTRALIA
[8] PARKES OBSERV,PARKES,NSW 2870,AUSTRALIA
关键词
COSMOLOGY; GALAXIES; CLUSTERING; REDSHIFTS; RADIO SOURCES; 21 CM RADIATION;
D O I
10.1086/170806
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Distances from the Tully-Fisher relation have been measured with the Parkes radio telescope for eight additional southern clusters of galaxies in the redshift range 2500-5000 km s-1. Most of them have large (average 1000 km s-1) positive peculiar velocities in a comoving frame in which the microwave background radiation shows no dipole anisotropy. In five out of eight cases these measurements have a significance at or above the 2 sigma-level. Outflow is seen on both sides of the Galactic plane. The source of this large-scale flow, if gravitational in origin, lies at or beyond the limit of our sample.
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页码:467 / 486
页数:20
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