Kinematics of cD Clusters of Galaxies

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Dec 1992

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American Astronomical Society, 181st AAS Meeting, #45.13; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 24, p.1193

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In order to determine the distribution and frequency of peculiar velocities of cD galaxies and the nature of their parent clusters, we have begun a survey of a statistically complete sample of cD clusters with the MX multifiber spectrometer at Steward Observatory. If ``speeding'' cDs are common, then their existence must be taken into account by formation models, which usually assume that cDs lie at rest in the bottom of the cluster potential well (ie. the cannibalism model). Our sample is the subset of the Hoessel, Gunn & Thuan (1980) Abell cluster sample satisfying the following constraints: (1) the cluster must be of Rood-Sastry type cD, (2) have redshift <0.08, and (3) have declination >-10(deg) . This provides a statistically complete, unbiased sample of cD clusters. There are 24 Abell clusters in this sample, and we present data for 10 clusters. The goal of the survey is to collect ~ 60 redshifts per cluster, in order that peculiar velocities of 250\ km\ s(-1) or higher can be verified at a >2.5sigma level of significance. In the current sample of clusters, 7 cD galaxies have no statistically significant peculiar velocities (A399, 401, 1749, 1809, 2063, 2124, 2589). Three other clusters (A1795, 2107, and 2634) have peculiar or marginally peculiar velocities, but show evidence for subclustering or non-Gaussian velocity distributions. Based on the data taken so far, ~ 25% of all cD galaxies appear to have statistically significant peculiar velocities with respect to their parent clusters. Evidence is now beginning to mount that these peculiar velocities are due to subclustering, as first suggested by Sharples etal (1988) & Hill etal (1988).

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