Catalog of Nearby Galaxies and the Local Cosmic Web
Igor D. Karachentsev, Valentina E. Karachentseva, Walter K. Huchtmeier, Dmitry I. Makarov
Abstract
We compiled an all-sky catalog of 451 nearby galaxies, each having an individual distance estimate D 10 Mpc or the radial velocity VLG < 550 km s-1. The catalog contains data on basic optical and HI properties of the galaxies: their diameters, absolute magnitudes, morphological types, optical and HI surface brightnesses, rotational velocities, indicative mass-to-luminosity and HI mass-to-luminosity ratios, as well as a so-called "tidal index", which quantifies the galaxy environment. We expect the catalog completeness to be 75% within 8 Mpc. About 85% of the Local volume population are dwarf (dIrr, dIm, dSph) galaxies with MB>-17.0, which contribute about 4% to the local luminosity density, and (10-16)% to the local HI mass density. We found that the mean local barion density Ωb(<8 Mpc) = 2.3% consists of only a half of the global barion density, Ωb=(4.70.6)% (Spergel et al. 2003). The mean-square pairwise difference of radial velocities is about 100 km s-1 for spatial separations within 1 Mpc, increasing to 300 km s-1 on a scale of 3 Mpc.
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