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Dynamical Evolution of Clusters
Dynamical Evolution of Clusters
2000-10-05
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arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010110v1
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, 5 eps figures, to appear in Constructing the Universe with
Clusters of Galaxies, edited by F. Durret & D. Gerbal
Scientific paper
We consider a sample of about 50 distant galaxy clusters at z>0.15 ( about 0.3), each cluster having at least 10 galaxies with available redshift in the literature. We select member galaxies, analyze the velocity dispersion profiles, and evaluate in a homogeneous way cluster velocity dispersions and virial masses. We apply the same procedures already recently applied on a sample of nearby clusters (z<0.15) in order to properly analyze the possible dynamical evolution of galaxy clusters. We do not find any significant difference between nearby and distant clusters. In particular, we consider the galaxy spatial distribution, the shape of the velocity dispersion profile, and the relations between velocity dispersion and X-ray luminosity and temperature. Our results imply little dynamical evolution in the range of redshift spanned by our cluster sample, and suggest that the typical redshift of cluster formation is higher than that of the sample we analyze.
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