The Mass Function of Nearby Galaxy Clusters

Abstract

We present the distribution of virial masses for nearby galaxy clusters, as obtained from a data-set of 75 clusters, each having at least 20 galaxy members with measured redshifts within 1 Abell radius. After having accounted for problems of incompleteness of the data-set, we fitted a power-law to the cluster mass distribution.

10 pages (2 figures not included, available upon request), LATEX, Ref.SISSA 54/93/A

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