| Title | Loose Groups of Galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey |
| Authors | Tucker, Douglas L.; Oemler, Augustus, Jr.; Hashimoto, Yasuhiro; Shectman, Stephen A.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Lin, Huan; Landy, Stephen D.; Schechter, Paul L.; Allam, Sahar S. |
| Bibcode | 2000ApJS..130..237T Search ADS ↗ |
| Abstract | A ``friends-of-friends'' percolation algorithm has been used to extract a catalog of δn/n=80 density enhancements (groups) from the six slices of the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS). The full catalog contains 1495 groups and includes 35% of the LCRS galaxy sample. A clean sample of 394 groups has been derived by culling groups from the full sample that either are too close to a slice edge, have a crossing time greater than a Hubble time, have a corrected velocity dispersion of zero, or contain a 55" ``orphan'' (a galaxy with a mock redshift that was excluded from the original LCRS redshift catalog due to its proximity to another galaxy-i.e., within 55"). Median properties derived from the clean sample include a line-of-sight velocity dispersion σlos=164 km s-1, crossing time tcr=0.10 H-10, harmonic radius Rh=0.58 h-1 Mpc, pairwise separation Rp=0.64 h-1 Mpc, virial mass Mvir=1.90×1013 h-1 Msolar, total group R-band luminosity Ltot=1.30×1011 h-2 Lsolar, and R-band mass-to-light ratio M/L=171 h Msolar/Lsolar the median number of observed members in a group is three. |
| Objects | 9106 Objects Search NED ↙ |
