Alignments of the dominant galaxies in poor clusters

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dc.creator Fuller, Todd M.
dc.creator West, Michael J.
dc.creator Bridges, Terry J.
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dc.date.issued 1999-07-01
dc.identifier.issn 0004-637X
dc.identifier.uri http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/25354
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dc.description.abstract We have examined the orientations of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in poor MKW (Morgan, Kayser, and White) and AWM (Albert, White, and Morgan) clusters and find that, like their counterparts in richer Abell clusters, poor cluster BCGs exhibit a strong propensity to be aligned with the principal axes of their host clusters as well as the surrounding distribution of nearby (less than or equal to 20 h[superscript -1] Mpc) Abell clusters. The processes responsible for dominant galaxy alignments are therefore independent of cluster richness. We argue that these alignments most likely arise from anisotropic infall of material into clusters along large-scale filaments. en_CA
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dc.publisher American Astronomical Society en_CA
dc.publisher IOP Science
dc.relation.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/307343
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dc.subject.lcsh Galaxies -- Clusters
dc.title Alignments of the dominant galaxies in poor clusters en_CA
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation Astrophysical Journal 519(1), 22-26. (1999) en_CA
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