A GUIDED TOUR OF THE SHAPLEY CONCENTRATION SUPERCLUSTER

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    Rich superclusters are ideal laboratories, where to study the formation of rich clusters of galaxies. In fact, the enhanced peculiar valocities induced by the local overdensity and the (relatively) small volumes involved, increase the cross section for cluster-cluster and cluster-group collisions. In order to study the in detail the merging phenomenon and its astrophysical consequences, it is important to perform an extensive multiwavelength survey of the supercluster. We have studied the extension, the overdensity in galaxies of the supercluster and the properties of galaxies in the optical, X-ray and radio bands.


    ARGUMENTS


  • INTRODUCTION

  • LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE

  • MERGING CLUSTERS IN OPTICAL

  • MERGING CLUSTERS IN X-RAY

  • MERGING CLUSTERS IN RADIO

  • BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • The violent environment of the Shapley Concentration (poscript file)

  • The Large scale distribution and galaxy properties in the Shapley Concentration (poscript file)


    LINKS

  • NICE PAGE ON SHAPLEY

  • TIZIANA VENTURI'S SHAPLEY PAGE

  • STEFANO ETTORI'S SHAPLEY PAGE