groupcentric
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- With respect to the centre of a galactic group
- 2016, Jubee Sohn, Ho Seong Hwang, Margaret J. Geller, Antonaldo Diaferio, Kenneth J. Rines, Myung Gyoon Lee, Gwang-Ho Lee, “Compact Groups of Galaxies with Complete Spectroscopic Redshifts in the Local Universe”, in JKAS[1], volume 2015:
- The velocity dispersions of early- and late-type galaxies in compact groups change little with groupcentric radius; the radii sampled are less than kpc, smaller than the radii typically sampled by members of massive clusters of galaxies.