A redshift survey of the poor cluster A1142.
Abstract
The authors' nearly complete redshift survey of the galaxy cluster A1142 includes 63 new redshifts. In the 2-sq deg survey region only about 60% of the galaxies brighter than mv = 16.5 are cluster members. The foreground/background contamination gives the illusion of substructure in the galaxy distribution. After isolating and removing this contamination, the authors derive a mass-to-light ratio for A1142 of M/Lv = 410 M_sun;/L_sun; or M/LB(0) = 520 M_sun;/L_sun; (H0 = 100 km s-1 Mpc-1). This result is consistent with the values for other well-studied systems of galaxies.
- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- March 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1086/113515
- Bibcode:
- 1984AJ.....89..319G
- Keywords:
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- Galactic Clusters;
- Red Shift;
- Astrometry;
- Astronomical Catalogs;
- Luminosity;
- Mass To Light Ratios;
- Astronomy