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Triple galaxies and a hidden mass problem
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Karachentsev, I. D. Lebedev, V. S. Karachentseva, V. E. |
| Copyright Year | 1990 |
| Description | The authors consider a homogeneous sample of 84 triple systems of galaxies with components brighter than m = 15.7, located in the northern sky and satisfying an isolation criterion with respect to neighboring galaxies in projection. The distributions of basic dynamical parameters for triplets have median values as follows: radial velocity dispersion 133 km/s, mean harmonic radius 63 kpc, absolute magnitude of galaxies M sub B equals -20.38, crossing time tau = 0.04 H(sup minus 1). For different ways of estimation the median mass-to-luminosity ratio is (20 - 30). A comparison of the last value with the ones for single and binary galaxies shows the presence of a virial mass excess for triplets by a factor 4. The mass-to-luminosity ratio is practically uncorrelated with linear size of triplets or with morphological types of their components. We note that a significant part of the virial excess may be explained by the presence of nonisolated triple configurations in the sample, which are produced by debris of more populous groups of galaxies. |
| File Size | 3714567 |
| Page Count | 13 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19910007562 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t5cc5x229 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1990-11-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astrophysics Radii Galaxies Brightness Median Statistics Binary Data Northern Sky Criteria Velocity Distribution Galactic Clusters Mass Crossings Stellar Magnitude Morphology Isolation Radial Velocity Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |