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JF Photometry of Fourteen Distant Rich Clusters of Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

W. J. Couch  and
E. B. Newell
W. J. Couch
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Research School of Physical Sciences, Autralian National University
E. B. Newell
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Research School of Physical Sciences, Autralian National University

Abstract

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We have recently completed a photometric study of fourteen rich clusters of galaxies in the redshift range 0.18≤z≤0.39. The data are based on JF photographic photometry of each field. We report on the analysis of the cluster galaxy colour distributions; in particular we find that all the clusters in our sample with z ≳ 0.26 contain an excess number of blue galaxies (i.e., show the Butcher-Oemler effect). The blue excess, which was measured in terms of the ratio of the fraction of blue galaxies observed to that expected on the basis of Dressler's (1980) [morphological mix, local projected galaxy density]-correlations, ranges from 2 to ∼5. The highest value of 4.8 found in the cluster C10024+1654 (z=0.39), confirms Butcher and Oemler's (1978) observations of this cluster.

Type
Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 104: Early Evolution of the Universe and Its Present Structure , 1983 , pp. 93
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983