The Structure of Supervoids -- I: Void Hierarchy in the Northern Local Supervoid

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1995-03-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9503044v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Supervoids are regions in the local Universe which do not contain rich clusters of galaxies. We have studied the closest example, the Northern Local Void, situated between the Local, Coma, and the Hercules superclusters. We find that this supervoid is not empty, but it contains small galaxy systems and poor clusters of galaxies. We study the cosmography of this void by analyzing the distribution of poor clusters of galaxies, elliptical and other galaxies in two projections. We present a catalogue of voids, defined by galaxies of different morphological type and luminosity, and analyze mean diameters of voids in different environments. The sizes of voids and the properties of void walls are related. Voids defined by poor clusters of galaxies and by bright elliptical galaxies have a mean diameter of up to 40 h-1 Mpc. Faint late-type galaxies divide these voids into smaller voids. The faintest galaxies we can study are outlining voids with mean diameters of about 8 h-1 Mpc. Voids located in a high-density environment are smaller than voids in low-density regions. This analysis shows that voids form a hierarchical system.

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