Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-09-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
accepted to A&A, uuencoded ps file, 12 pages, 8 fig. included 295 kb
Scientific paper
We propose a new hierarchical method which uses dynamical arguments to find and describe substructures in galaxy clusters. This method (hereafter h--method or h--analysis) uses a hierarchical clustering analysis to determine the relationship between galaxies according to their relative binding energies. We have tested from N-body simulations, the two following features of the proposed method: 1) It extracts subgroups which are much more stable during the cluster evolution than those given by other techniques. 2) There exists a reasonable similarity between the structures found when only the coordinates ($x, y, v_z$) provided by "observations" are considered, and those found by using the six phase--space coordinates We have applied this method to two Abell clusters: ABCG151 and ABCG2670. Our results imply that ABCG151 is separated into two clusters, one of them is again divided into two subclusters. ABCG2670 has no subclustering. Our method allows however to extract the most bound galaxies in its dynamical core.
Gerbal Daniel
Serna Arturo
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