Pairs of galaxies in low density regions of a combined redshift catalog

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Nov 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990nascp3098...19c&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Paired and Interacting Galaxies: International Astronomical Union Colloquium No. 124 p 19

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Dark Matter, Density (Number/Volume), Galaxies, Red Shift, Sky Surveys (Astronomy), Southern Sky, Halos, Many Body Problem, Radial Velocity, Rotation

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The distributions of projected separations and radial velocity differences of pairs of galaxies in the CfA and Southern Sky Redshift Survey (SSRS) redshift catalogs are examined. The authors focus on pairs that fall in low density environments rather than in clusters or large groups. The projected separation distribution is nearly flat, while uncorrelated galaxies would have given one linearly rising with rp. There is no break in this curve even below 50 kpc, the minimum halo size consistent with measured galaxy rotation curves. The significant number of pairs at small separations is inconsistent with the N-body result that galaxies with overlapping halos will rapidly merge, unless there are significant amounts of matter distributed out to a few hundred kpc of the galaxies. This dark matter may either be in distinct halos or more loosely distributed. Large halos would allow pairs at initially large separations to head toward merger, replenishing the distribution at small separations. In the context of this model, the authors estimate that roughly 10 to 25 percent of these low density galaxies are the product of a merger, compared with the elliptical/SO fraction of 18 percent, observed in low density regions of the sample.

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