Detailed Study of the Ursa Major Supercluster of Galaxies Using the 2MASS and SDSS Catalogs

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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16 pages, 5 figures

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10.1134/S1063773706020022

We study the infrared (K_s band) properties of clusters of galaxies in the Ursa Major supercluster using data from 2MASS (Two-Micron All-Sky Survey) and SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey). We identified three large filaments with mean redshifts of z = 0.051, 0.060, and 0.071. All clusters of the supercluster are located in these filaments. We determined the total K_s-band luminosities and masses for 11 clusters of galaxies within comparable physical regions (within a radius R_200 close to the virial radius) using a homogeneous method. We constructed a combined luminosity function for the supercluster in this region, which can be described by the Schechter function with the following parameters: M*_K = -24^m.50 and \alpha = -0.98. The infrared luminosities of the clusters of galaxies correlate with their masses; the M/L_K ratios of the systems increase with their masses (luminosities), with most of the Ursa Major clusters of galaxies (particularly the richer ones) closely following the relations derived previously for a large sample of clusters and groups of galaxies. The total mass-to-infrared-luminosity ratio is 52 M_{\odot}/L_{\odot} for six Abell clusters and 49 M_{\odot}/L_{\odot} for all of the clusters, except Anon2.

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