The Shape of Poor Groups of Galaxies

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2003-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312019v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.352:1323,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, MNRAS accepted version

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08023.x

We estimate the distribution of intrinsic shapes of UZC-SSRS2 groups of galaxies from the distribution of their apparent shapes. We measure the projected group axial ratio using the moments of their discrete galaxy distribution. Then using the non-parametric kernel method to estimate the smooth apparent axial ratio distribution we numerically invert a set of integral equations to recover the corresponding intrinsic distribution under the assumption that groups are either oblate or prolate spheroids. We find that the prolate spheroidal model fits very well the UZC-SSRS2 group distribution with a true mean axial ratio <\beta>~0.3 and \sigma ~0.15. This shows that groups of galaxies are significantly more elongated, both on the plane of the sky and in 3 dimensions, than clusters of galaxies. The poorest groups that we consider, those with 4 members, are even more elongated than the overall population with 85% of the groups having \beta < 0.4.

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