Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-07-02
MNRAS (1997) 291, 488
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
MNRAS, in press. 19 pages. Also available from http://astrowww.phys.uvic.ca/rsocs/hudson/pubs/pubs.html
Scientific paper
We have measured the mean peculiar motions of 103 early-type galaxies in 7 clusters in the Perseus-Pisces (PP) ridge or PP background, and a further 249 such galaxies in 9 calibrating clusters from the literature, using the inverse Fundamental Plane relation. This relation is found to have a distance error of 20% per galaxy. None of the 6 clusters in the PP ridge has a significant motion with respect to the CMB frame, but the PP background cluster J8 shows marginal evidence of `backside infall' into the PP supercluster. The full 16 cluster sample has a mean CMB-frame bulk motion of 420 +/- 280 km/s, towards l=262, b=-25. This result is consistent both with no bulk motion in the CMB frame and with the ~350 km/s bulk motion found by Courteau et al. It is inconsistent at the 98% confidence level with the ~700 km/s bulk flow found by Lauer & Postman (LP). The PP ridge clusters are found to have a small and statistically insignificant mean radial motion with respect to the CMB frame: -60 +/- 220 km/s. A comparison between our cluster peculiar velocities and the predicted peculiar velocities from the IRAS 1.2 Jy density field, smoothed on a 500 km/s scale, yields beta_I = Omega^0.6/b_I = 0.95 +/- 0.48, consistent with previous results. We find agreement between our peculiar motions and published Tully-Fisher results for the same clusters. The disagreement between the 11 clusters common to our sample and that of LP, based on BCGs, is statistically significant at the >~ 99.7% confidence level indicating that the errors of one or both of these data sets are underestimated. When the BCG distances corrected for the X-ray luminosity of the host cluster are used, the disagreement is reduced to the ~94% confidence level. (Abridged)
Hudson Michael J.
Lucey John R.
Smith Jeffrey R.
Steel John
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