The Medium Redshift Clusters CL0017-20 and CL0500-24

Abstract

We present magnitudes and redshifts of galaxies in the cluster of galaxies CL0017-20 and in the double cluster CL0500-24. Luminosity functions and velocity distributions have been derived. CL0017-20 possesses a virial mass of $2.9\times 10^{14}$ M${}_{\odot }$ and a \vmag band luminosity of $2.3\pm 0.5\times 10^{12}$ L${}_{\odot }$ ($M/L_{\mathrm{V}}=127$), much of it in a very compact core of size 113 kpc. Our new velocities and photometry of CL0500-24 confirm its double nature. Our group algorithm clearly detects two subconcentrations with masses 1.9 and $2.2\times 10^{14}$ M${}_{\odot }$. Its total \vmag band luminosity amounts to $2.7\pm 0.8\times 10^{12}$ L${}_{\odot }$ ($M/L_{\mathrm{V}}$ of 157). Since the crossing and collapse times in both clusters are smaller than the age of the Universe, they appear bound and virialized. It is surprising that although $M/L$ is small in these clusters, giant arcs have been detected in both.

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