Discovery of Extreme Examples of Superclustering in Aquarius

Details Discovery of Extreme Examples of Superclustering in Aquarius Discovery of Extreme Examples of Superclustering in Aquarius

1999-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9906412v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

45 pages (+ e-tables), 7 figures, AASTeX Accepted for Publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/307484

We report the discovery of two highly extended filaments and one extremely high density knot within the region of Aquarius. The supercluster candidates were chosen via percolation analysis of the Abell and ACO catalogs and include only the richest clusters (R >= 1). The region examined is a 10x45 degree strip and is now 87% complete in cluster redshift measurements to mag_10 = 18.3. In all, we report 737 galaxy redshifts in 46 cluster fields. One of the superclusters, dubbed Aquarius, is comprised of 14 Abell/ACO clusters and extends 110h^-1Mpc in length only 7 degrees off the line-of-sight. On the near-end of the Aquarius filament, another supercluster, dubbed Aquarius-Cetus, extends for 75h^-1Mpc perpendicular to the line-of-sight. After fitting ellipsoids to both Aquarius and Aquarius-Cetus, we find axis ratios (long-to- midlength axis) of 4.3 for Aquarius and 3.0 for Aquarius-Cetus. We fit ellipsoids to all N>=5 clumps of clusters in the Abell/ACO measured-z cluster sample. The frequency of filaments with axis ratios >=3.0 (~20%) is nearly identical with that found among `superclusters' in Monte Carlo simulations of random and random- clumped clusters, however, so the rich Abell/ACO clusters have no particular tendency toward filamentation. The Aquarius filament also contains a `knot' of 6 clusters at Z ~0.11, with five of the clusters near enough togeteher to represent an apparent overdensity of 150. There are three other R >= 1 cluster density enhancements similar to this knot at lower redshifts: Corona Borealis, the Shapely Concentration, and another grouping of seven clusters in Microscopium. All four of these dense superclusters appear near the point of breaking away from the Hubble Flow, and some may now be in collapse, but there is little evidence of any being virialized.

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