Alignments of the Dominant Galaxies in Poor Clusters

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1999-01-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901418v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/307343

We have examined the orientations of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in poor MKW and AWM clusters and find that, like their counterparts in richer Abell clusters, poor cluster BCGs exhibit a strong propensity to be aligned with the principal axes of their host clusters as well as the surrounding distribution of nearby (< 20/h Mpc) Abell clusters. The processes responsible for dominant galaxy alignments are therefore independent of cluster richness. We argue that these alignments most likely arise from anisotropic infall of material into clusters along large-scale filaments.

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