Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-09-26
Astron.J. 115 (1998) 6
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
61 pages, 14 figures, accepted to AJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/300179
The Hercules Supercluster consists of the Abell clusters 2147, 2151, and 2152. 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. 414 galaxies are in the supercluster, about three 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(+68)(-55) and 715(+81)(-61) km/s. 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, and Huchra (1982) 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 $(7.6\pm2.0)\times 10^{15} h^{-1} M_{\sun}$; with the supercluster luminosity, $(1.4\pm0.2) \times 10^{13} h^{-2} L_{\sun}$, this yields Omega = 0.34\pm0.1$.
Barmby Pauline
Huchra John P.
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