Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-06-28
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/317772
We use the Updated Zwicky Catalog of galaxies (Falco et al. 1999) to generate a catalog of groups, by means of a friend-of-friend algorithm. The correlation length of the total sample is well fitted with a power law $ \xi(r)=(r/r_0)^\gamma $ with parameters $r_0=9.0 \pm 0.4 h^{-1}Mpc$ and $\gamma = -1.67 \pm 0.09$ for values of $r<70 h^{-1} Mpc$. Three subsamples defined by the range of group virial masses ${\cal M}$ were used to have their clustering properties examined throughout the autocorrelation function. We find an increase of the amplitude of the correlation function according to the group masses which extends the results of the $ r_0-d_c$ relation for galaxy systems at small $d_c$. For completeness we have also analyzed a sample of groups obtained from the Southern Sky Redshift Survey (da Costa et al.1998) in the range of virial masses $5\times10^{12}M_{\odot}<{\cal M}<4\times10^{14}M_{\odot} $ to compare the results with those obtained from GUZC.
Lambas Diego G.
Maia Marcio A. G.
Merchan Manuel E.
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