Galaxy Luminosity Function in Groups

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1998-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9804300v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in ApJ, 5 pages including 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/306262

We compute the luminosity function of galaxies in groups. The data consists in two samples of groups of galaxies selected in distance and redshift space comprising a total number of 66 groups. The assignment of galaxies to the groups were derived from the Edinburgh-Durham Southern Galaxy Catalog, considering a limiting apparent magnitude $m_{lim}=19.4$. We find a flat faint end of the mean galaxy luminosity function in groups in contrast to the mean galaxy LF in clusters where a large relative number of faint galaxies is present. We find that a Schechter function with parameters $M^{*}\simeq -19.6\pm 0.2,$ $\alpha \simeq -1.0\pm $ 0.2 provides a satisfactory fit to the galaxy LF of our total sample of groups in the range of absolute magnitudes $-22

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