Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jan 1996
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Astrophysics, Volume 39, Issue 1, pp.63-70
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
In order to search for spatially uniform groups of galaxies, two necessary criteria for systems of this type are constructed. The pairwise distribution of galaxies (the distribution of their mutual distances) in the picture plane is used in both cases. This distribution is derived theoretically (in the limit N → ∞, where N is the number of galaxies in the group) and numerically for finite N. For this we considered the orthogonal projection onto a plane of a uniform Poisson process in a sphere of some radius. In the first criterion we use the Kolmogorov criterion to compare the calculated and observed integral pairwise distributions. In the second criterion we use dimensionless statistics associated with the moments of the pairwise distribution. An investigation of the Geller-Huchra and Mahtessian catalogs, in which groups of galaxies were selected based on the condition 9 ≤ N ≤ 30, showed that the overwhelming majority of these systems are spatially nonuniform. Some dynamical consequences of these results are discussed.
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