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Multiwavelength Study of the Shapley Concentration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
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The Shapley Concentration is a prominent supercluster in the southern sky. It is interesting not only for its relevance in the peculiar motion problem (it seems to be responsible of ∼ 30% of the acceleration acting on the Local Group of galaxies), but also because it is the most remarkable feature which appears studying the distribution of the Abell-ACO clusters of galaxies: Zucca et al. (1993) found that at every density contrast the Shapley Concentration stands out as the richest supercluster in the sky. In particular, the central part of this supercluster is dominated by a complex containing the three ACO clusters A3556, A3558 and A3562 and the poor cluster SC1329-314, which form a structure elongated ∼ 3° along the East-West direction. We are carrying on a long term study of the Shapley Concentration in order to describe its dynamical state and to determine its mass. The project consists of redshift determinations (with the ESO telescopes at La Silla) for galaxies both in the clusters (Bardelli et al. 1994) and in the inter-cluster field of this supercluster, X-ray observations (ROSAT) of the hot gas in the clusters (Bardelli et al. 1996) and radio observations (ATCA, MOST and VLA, Venturi et al. 1996) of the radiogalaxies.
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- Part 6. Large Scale Structure
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 179: New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys , 1998 , pp. 342 - 343
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1998