A 3-D wavelet analysis of substructure in the Coma cluster: statistics and morphology

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24 pages, 6 figures. ApJ (Main Journal), accepted for publication. Added one section on statistical tests and slightly modifie

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10.1086/304684

Evidence for clustering within the Coma cluster is found by means of a multiscale analysis of the combined angular-redshift distribution. We have compiled a catalogue of 798 galaxy redshifts from published surveys from the region of the Coma cluster. We examine the presence of substructure and of voids at different scales ranging from $\sim 1 to \sim 16 h^{-1}$ Mpc, using subsamples of the catalogue, ranging from $cz=3000$ km/s to $cz=28000$ km/s. Our substructure detection method is based on the wavelet transform and on the segmentation analysis. The wavelet transform allows us to find out structures at different scales and the segmentation method allows us a quantitative statistical and morphological analysis of the sample. From the whole catalogue we select a subset of 320 galaxies, with redshifts between cz=5858 km/s and cz=8168 km/s that we identify as belonging to the central region of Coma and on which we have performed a deeper analysis, on scales ranging from $180 h^{-1}$ kpc to $1.44 h^{-1}$ Mpc. Our results are expressed in terms of the number of structures or voids and their sphericity for different values of the threshold detection and at all the scales investigated. According to our analysis, there is strong evidence for multiple hierarchical substructure, on scales ranging from a few hundreds of kpc to about $4 h^{-1}$ Mpc. The morphology of these substructures is rather spherical. On the scale of $720 h^{-1}$ kpc we find two main subclusters which where also found before, but our wavelet analysis shows even more substructures, whose redshift position is approximatively marked by these bright galaxies: NGC 4934 & 4840, 4889, 4898 & 4864, 4874 & 4839, 4927, 4875.

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