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Published 1992 | public
Book Section - Chapter

Properties of Brightest Cluster Members

Abstract

Are the brightest cluster members (BCMs) somehow different from the "normal" ellipticals, or are their properties in accord with the high luminosity extension of the global properties and scaling laws of the family of ellipticals? We examined the behavior of BCMs in the parameter space defined by the luminosity (L), radius (R), surface brightness (μ), and velocity dispersion (σ), i.e., the so-called Fundamental Plane (FP) variables. We used the data from Malumuth and Kirshner, for both the core and the half-light parameters; the results on both radial scales were qualitatively the same.

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© 1992 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. SD acknowledges a travel grant from the AAS, and a partial support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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