The structure of the local supercluster of galaxies detected by tree-dimensional Voronoi's tessellation method

1Melnyk, OV, 1Elyiv, AA, 1Vavilova, IB
1Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Kinemat. fiz. nebesnyh tel (Online) 2006, 22(4):283-296
Language: Russian
Abstract: 

3D Voronoi's tessellation method was first applied to identify groups of galaxies in the structure of a supercluster. The sample under consideration consists of more than 7000 galaxies of the Local Supercluster (LS) with radial velocities up to 3100 km/s. Because of an essential non-homogeneity of the LS catalogue, it was proposed to overscale distances in such an «artificial» way that the concentration of galaxies was varying as with increase of the distance a power-behaved function with the same exponent β as for the full homogeneous catalogue. Various parameters of clustering were taking into account: α (0.01, 0.1, 1 %) as the part of galaxies, which have the relative volume of a Voronoi's cell smaller than the critical one for the random distribution; β = O, which fits to the random galaxy distribution; β = 0.7, which is close to the pancake galaxy distribution. It is revealed that Voronoi's tessellation method depends weakly on β-parameter, and the number of galaxies in rich structures is growing rather than in poor ones with increase of α-parameter. The comparison of the groups derived with the groups obtained by Karachentsev's dynamical method shows that the number of groups, which coincides by all the components, is 22 %. As a whole, the dynamical method is more preferred for identifying sparsely populated galaxy groups, whereas 3D Voronoi's tessellation method is preferred for more populated ones.

Keywords: galaxies, Voronoi's method