Surveying the Local Supercluster Plane

Abstract

We investigate the distribution and velocity field of galaxies situated in a band of 100 by 20 degrees centered on M87 and oriented along the Local supercluster plane. Our sample amounts 2158 galaxies with radial velocities less than 2000 km/s. Of them, 1119 galaxies (52%) have distance and peculiar velocity estimates. About 3/4 of early-type galaxies are concentrated within the Virgo cluster core, most of the late-type galaxies in the band locate outside the virial radius. Distribution of gas-rich dwarfs with $M_{\mathrm{H}\mathrm{I}}>M_{\ast }$ looks to be insensitive to the Virgo cluster presence. Among 50 galaxy groups in the equatorial supercluster band 6 groups have peculiar velocities about 500-1000 km/s comparable with virial motions in rich clusters. The most cryptic case is a flock of nearly 30 galaxies around NGC4278 (Coma I cloud), moving to us with the mean peculiar velocity of $-$840 km/s. This cloud (or filament?) resides at a distance of 16.1 Mpc from us and approximately 5 Mpc away from the Virgo center. Galaxies around Virgo cluster exhibit Virgocentric infall with an amplitude of about 500 km/s. Assuming the spherically symmetric radial infall, we estimate the radius of the zero-velocity surface to be $R_0=(7.0\pm 0.3)$ Mpc that yields the total mass of Virgo cluster to be $(7.4\pm 0.9)\times 10^{14}{M}_{\odot }$ in tight agreement with its virial mass estimates. We conclude that the Virgo outskirts does not contain significant amounts of dark mater beyond its virial core.

19 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables. Published in Astrophysical Bulletin, Vol.73, pp.124-141 (2018)

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