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Construction of luminosity function for galaxy clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2015

Włodzimierz Godłowski
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Opole University, Opole, Poland
Joanna Popiela
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Opole University, Opole, Poland
Katarzyna Bajan
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Pedagogical University, Cracow, Poland
Monika Biernacka
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland
Piotr Flin
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland
Elena Panko
Affiliation:
Kalinenkov Observatory, Nikolaev State University, Nikolaev, Ukraine
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Abstract

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The luminosity function is an important quantity for analysis of large scale structure statistics, interpretation of galaxy counts (Lin & Kirshner 1996). We investigate the luminosity function of galaxy clusters. This is performed by counting the brightness of galaxies belonging to clusters in PF Catalogue. The obtained luminosity function is significantly different than that obtained both for optical and radiogalaxies (Machalski & Godowski 2000). The implications of this result for theories of galaxy formation are discussed as well.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2015 

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