Tales within Tales and Cutoffs within Cutoffs: What Sets the Mass Scale for Galaxies?

Schechter, Paul L.

doi:10.1007/10856495_1

Paul L. Schechter¹

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1. Does the mass function four clusters of galaxies cut off exponentially?

2. Does the luminosity function for galaxies cut off exponentially?

3. Is the dependence of virial velocity on galaxy luminosity a power law?

4. Does the velocity function four galaxies cut off exponentially?

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Schechter, P.L. Tales within Tales and Cutoffs within Cutoffs: What Sets the Mass Scale for Galaxies?. In: Gilfanov, M., Sunyeav, R., Churazov, E. (eds) Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and Their Use for Cosmology. ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10856495_1

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/10856495_1
Published: 08 October 2003
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-43769-7
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