Large-scale streaming of cluster elliptical galaxies

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Cosmology, Elliptical Galaxies, Galactic Clusters, Sky Surveys (Astronomy), Anisotropy, Infrared Sources (Astronomy), Local Group (Astronomy), Relic Radiation, Velocity Distribution

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Large-scale deviations from isotropic Hubble flow are investigated using first-ranked cluster elliptical galaxies. The sky coverage of the sample used precludes a general solution for a dipole anisotropy, but it is well suited to investigation of the component of any motion of these galaxies along a direction defined by the dipole anisotropy in the 2.7-K cosmic background radiation. The cluster ellipticals have a velocity component along this direction of approximately 600 km/s. This result is consistent with the large-scale streaming found in a reinvestigation of the Rubin et al. (1976) spiral galaxies in the infrared (Collins et al., 1986), and that found for a different sample of elliptical galaxies by Dressler et al. (1987). However, the recent result of Aaronson et al. (1986), who found a Local Group motion consistent with their sample of 10 clusters being at rest with respect to the cosmic background radiation, is not confirmed.

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