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Dynamical Models for our Virgocentric Deviation from Hubble Flow
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2016
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Spherically symmetric models for the dynamic development of a galaxy cluster from an initial overdensity have been carried out numerically, without dissipation or 2-body relaxation but with shell crossings included. The deviation ∆V from pure Hubble Flow of the Local Group, due to the retardation effect of the Virgo cluster and supercluster, has been calculated from a number of different models by Hoffman and Salpeter (Astrophys. J. 263, 1982, in press). The results are somewhat surprising if one takes the point of view of (a) insisting that the dynamic model fit the observed dispersion of galaxy systemic velocities in the core of the Virgo cluster, but (b) allowing the mass to light ratio M/L to be an arbitrary (but smoothly varying) function of distance from the Virgo cluster center. Point (a) essentially fixes the mass density and M/L in the core, but (b) still allows a wide range of values for the cosmological density parameters Ω (proportional to the average M/L far from the Virgo cluster). With this point of view ∆V actually decreases with increasing Ω: If M/L is constant, Ω ≈ 0.3 and ∆V ≈ 250 km s–1 (Hoffman, Olson and Salpeter, Ap. J. 242, 861, 1980); for Ω ~ 0.05, ∆V would exceed 350 km s–1; for Ω = 1, AV could be less than 150 km s–1.
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