Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Mar 1990
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Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 351, March 1, 1990, p. L5-L8.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
93
Astronomical Photometry, Celestial Mechanics, Galactic Clusters, Velocity Distribution, Radial Velocity, Red Shift
Scientific paper
Results are reported from a program to study peculiar motions of galaxies in the Per-Psc supercluster. The data set consists of newly obtained CCD photometry and published 21-cm line widths for 320 spiral galaxies. The peculiar velocities of these objects are estimated using the Tully-Fisher relation, calibrated with respect to an independent sample of cluster galaxies. Analysis shows that the principal feature of the velocity field in the Per-Psc region is a coherent streaming toward the Local Group. Nearly all the galaxies well in the foreground (cz less than about 2000 km/sec) have negtive peculiar velocities of amplitude about 1000 km/sec. A great majority of objects in the background of the supercluster, out to redshifts of about 7000 km/sec, also have very large negative peculiar velocities. The supercluster ridge itself, at a redshift or about 5000 km/sec, appears to consist of positive and negative peculiar-velocity groups of galaxies, but with negative peculiar velocities predominating both in amplitude and in number of objects involved.
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