Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-05-17
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
We present 83 new galaxy radial velocities in the field of 18 APM clusters with redshifts between 0.06 and 0.13. The clusters have Abell identifications and the galaxies were selected within 0.75 h$^{-1}$Mpc in projection from their centers. We derive new cluster velocity dispersions for 13 clusters using our data and published radial velocities. We analyze correlations between cluster velocity dispersions and cluster richness counts as defined in Abell and APM catalogs. The correlations show a statistically significant trend although with a large scatter suggesting that richness is a poor estimator of cluster mass irrespectively of cluster selection criteria and richness definition. We find systematically lower velocity dispersions in the sample of Abell clusters that do not fulfill APM cluster selection criteria suggesting artificially higher Abell richness counts due to contamination by projection effects in this subsample.
Alonso Maria Victoria
Lambas Diego G.
Muriel Hernan
Valotto Carlos
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