Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-05-05
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 359 (2005) 1491-1497
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 9 figures gzipped tar file. to be published in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09008.x
We present indications of rotation in the galaxy cluster A2107 by a method that searches for the maximum gradient in the velocity field in a flat disk-like model of a cluster. Galaxies from cumulative sub-samples containing more and more distant members from the cluster centre, are projected onto an axis passing through the centre and we apply a linear regression model on the projected distances $x$ and the line-of-sight velocities $V$. The axis with the maximum linear correlation coefficient $r_{max} = \max [ r(V,x) ]$ defines the direction of the maximum velocity gradient, and consequently it presents the major axis of the apparently elliptical cluster. Because the effects of rotation are subtle, we put strong emphasis on the estimation of the uncertainties of the results by implementing different bootstrap techniques. We have found the rotational effects are more strongly expressed from distances $0.26 \div 0.54$ Mpc from the cluster centre. The total virial mass of the cluster is $(3.2\pm0.6)\times10^{14} {\cal M}_{\sun}$, while the virial mass, corrected for the rotation, is $(2.8\pm0.5) \times 10^{14}{\cal M}_{\sun}$.
Dissanska M.
Kalinkov M.
Kuneva I.
Valchanov T.
Valtchanov Ivan
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