The Density Contrast of the Shapley Supercluster

Details The Density Contrast of the Shapley Supercluster The Density Contrast of the Shapley Supercluster

2008-05-05

arxiv.org/abs/0805.0596v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13973.x

We calculate the density contrast of the Shapley Supercluster (SSC) based on the enhanced abundance of X-ray clusters in it using the extended Press-Schechter formalism. We derive a total SSC mass of M_tot=(4.4+-0.44)x10^{16} M_sun within a sphere of 50 Mpc centered at a distance of about 160 Mpc. The nonlinear fractional density contrast of the sphere is (1+delta)=1.76+-0.17 relative to the mean matter density in the Universe, but the contrast increases in the interior of the SSC. Including the cosmological constant, the SSC region is found to be gravitationally unbound. The SSC contributes only a minor portion (9.0%+-2.1%) of the peculiar velocity of the local group.

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