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dc.contributor.authorBhavsar, S.P.-
dc.contributor.authorBarrow, J.D.-
dc.date.accessioned2006-11-30T11:00:47Z-
dc.date.available2006-11-30T11:00:47Z-
dc.date.issued1985-
dc.identifier.citationMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1985, Vol.213, p857-869en
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/1551-
dc.descriptionOpen Accessen
dc.description.abstractThe small scatter in the luminosities of the brightest galaxies in clusters has been a topic of much debate. It has been argued that these galaxies are either special objects or the tail-end of a statistical distribution. In 1928, Fisher and Tippett derived the general form a distribution of extreme sample values should take, independent of the parent distribution from which they are drawn. Here, this asymptotic form is compared with the distribution of first ranked cluster members and it is concluded that these galaxies are not the extreme members of a statistical population. On the other hand, comparison of first ranked members of 'loose' groups with the extreme value distributions shows that these galaxies are consistent with their being the tail-end of a statistical distribution.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing for the Royal Astronomical Societyen
dc.relation.urihttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?1985MNRAS.213..857Ben
dc.relation.urihttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985MNRAS.213..857B&link_type=ARTICLE&db_key=ASTen
dc.rights(1985) Royal Astronomical Societyen
dc.subjectCOMPUTATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS,en
dc.subjectGALACTIC CLUSTERS,en
dc.subjectSTATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS,en
dc.subjectEXTREMUM VALUES,en
dc.subjectMAGNITUDEen
dc.titleFirst ranked galaxies in groups and clusters.en
dc.typeArticleen
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