Deviations from the Fundamental Plane and the Peculiar Velocities of Clusters

R. A. Gibbons, A. S. Fruchter, G. D. Bothun

We have fit the Fundamental Plane of Ellipticals (FP) to over 400 early-type galaxies in 20 nearby clusters (4000 < cz < 11000 km/s), using our own photometry and spectroscopy as w…