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The Data base on galaxies in the Local Volume, which locate within 11 Mpc around the Milky Way or have corrected radial velocities
VLG < 600 km/s. It contains 986 objects.
The Catalog and Atlas of the LV galaxies (LVG) is a renewed and expanded version
of the «Catalog of Neighboring Galaxies» by Karachentsev et al. (2004).
It collects data on the following observables for the galaxies: angular
diameters, apparent magnitudes in FUV-, B-, and Ks- bands, Hα and
HI fluxes, morphological types, HI-line widths, radial velocities,
distance estimates, optical and Hα images.
The study of galaxies in the LV, conditionally limited by the D=10 Mpc radius, has an obvious advantage, since a lot of
dwarf galaxies, otherwise inaccessible for observations at large distances were discovered in it. These "test particles" with
measured radial velocities and distances are tracing the Hubble flow with an unprecedentedly high detail. For a comparison note
that in the most extensive Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Abazajian et al. 2009) the average distance between galaxies with known
radial velocities is about 8 Mpc, whereas in the LV (D < 10 Mpc), the number of galaxies with measured velocities is
greater than 630.
There are recent indications that filaments and walls of the large-scale structure may have collective motions with an
amplitude of ~500 km/s. Perhaps the closest example of such great non virial motions is the Coma~I region, where a
"flock" of galaxies around NGC4150 at a distance of D ~ 15 Mpc is moving towards us with an average peculiar velocity of -800 km/s
(Karachentsev et al. 2011). To our regret, we have to state that the local field of peculiar velocities of galaxies is
poorly studied by now, and the proposed radial velocity correction schemes for coherent non-Hubble motions such as the model of pure
Virgo-centric flow (Kraan-Korteweg 1986, Masters 2005) turn out to be too simplified. Therefore, a low radial velocity of the assumed
nearby galaxy is not yet a reliable indicator of its proximity.
VLG < 600 km/s, (1) or the galaxies with distance estimates D < 11.0 Mpc. (2)
A simultaneous fulfillment of both conditions (1) and (2) is not required. Here, we took into account the fact that some
galaxies at distances ~(7-10) Mpc may have orbital/virial velocities that place them in the region of VLG > 600 km/s
on the Hubble diagram, while other galaxies, projected onto the Virgo cluster, are expected to have an additional positive
velocity component due to their infall toward the cluster.
The catalog yields also calculated global galaxy parameters: linear Holmberg
diameter, absolute B-magnitude, surface brightness, HI-mass, stellar mass
estimated via K-band luminosity, HI rotational velocity corrected for
galaxy inclination, indicative mass within the Holmberg radius, and three
kinds of "tidal index", which quantify the local density environment.
Introduction
As previously noted by Peebles (1993), Peebles & Nusser (2001), Peebles et al. (2010), the study of a representative sample of the
nearest galaxies is a source of important data on formation and evolution of large-scale structure of the
Universe. Numerous N-body simulations widely applied today in various cosmological models suggest observational verification of their
results via comparing the properties of galaxies in a reference volume of fixed size.
However, almost all existing catalogs of galaxies constitute the samples, limited by a flux (apparent magnitude), but not a
distance of galaxies. Because galaxies differ by a large range of luminosities and surface brightnesses, the creation of a
sample, limited by a fixed volume, proves to be extremely difficult. As an example, note that the famous Revised
Shapley-Ames Catalog (Sandage&Tammann 1981) contains 1246 brightest galaxies (BT < 13.2m)
across the sky, but only about 100 of them, i.e. 8% make it into the sample of most nearby galaxies with distances within 10 Mpc from us.
Some galaxies in the distance range 2-8 Mpc without individual distance
estimates are drawn to trace the slope H0 = 73 km s-1 Mpc-1 (open circles).
Until the late 1990s development of observational cosmology in the Local universe was hampered by the scarcity of data on
distances of even the most nearby galaxies, located just outside the Local Group boundaries. Deployment of unique
capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), combined with a new method for determining distances to galaxies by the luminosity
of the tip of their red giant branch (TRGB) (Lee et al. 1993) made it possible to carry out mass distance measurements to more than
250 nearby galaxies with an accuracy of 5%–10%. The summary of data on distances, radial velocities and other
parameters of galaxies in the LV (D ≤ 10 Mpc) was presented in the Catalog of Neighboring Galaxies (CNG; Karachentsev et al. 2004).
This volume contains dwarf galaxies with luminosities 104 times lower than that of the Milky Way,
and it includes more than a dozen groups, similar to our Local Group in size and population. A detailed pattern of motions of galaxies
in these groups and around them has for the first time revealed some unexpected features in the Hubble flow at 1–3 Mpc
scales. New evidence appeared that the Hubble velocity–distance diagrams around the Local Group and other neighboring groups are
characterized by a small dispersion of peculiar velocities ~30 km/s (Karachentsev et al. 2009).
The Local Group overdensity decelerates surrounding galaxies that leads to curving the local Hubble flow.
This effect can be observed because of small chaotic motions as well as minor distance measurement errors of nearby galaxies.
The achieved distance accuracy allows to determine the total mass of nearby groups with a relative error of ~30% by the value of
radius of the "zero-velocity sphere" R0, which separates the group volume from remaining expanding neighborhood
(Karachentsev et al. 2009, Karachentsev 2005).
It should be emphasized that the "R0" method gives an estimate of the group mass, independent of the virial theorem,
and this total mass estimate refers to a scale 3.5–4.0 times larger than the virial radius of the group. It is noteworthy that the
agreement of mass estimates of nearby groups based on external and internal (virial) motions of galaxies is achieved only in the
presence of the cosmological parameter Ωλ ≈ 0.7. This means that the observed properties of the Local
Hubble flow give a direct and independent evidence of the presence in the Universe of a specific medium, the dark
energy, discovered from observations of distant Supernovae.
As shown by Dalcanton et al. (2009), Weisz et al. (2011) and other authors, the deep color–magnitude diagrams obtained at the
Hubble Space Telescope for stellar population of nearby galaxies provides an opportunity to reconstruct the
history of star formation in them with a resolution of ~(0.1-1) Gyr. This approach is an important observational
tool for modeling the evolution of galaxies in different environments.
Creation of a representative sample of galaxies in the LV originates from a list of 179 galaxies by Kraan-Korteweg&Tammann (1979), which contains the galaxies with radial velocities VLG < 500 km/s relative to the Local Group centroid, except for members of the nearby Virgo cluster. Later,
Karachentsev (1994) and Karachentsev et al. (1999) have increased the number of galaxies in the LV to 226 and 303 objects,
respectively. In 1998–2001 Karachentseva and her colleagues undertook a systematic search for new nearby dwarf galaxies using
the POSS-II/ESO/SERC photographic sky survey. These efforts (Karachentseva&Karachentsev 1998, Karachentseva et al., 1999,
Karachentseva&Karachentsev 2000, Karachentsev et al. 2000) along with the subsequent survey of new objects in the HI line of
neutral hydrogen (Huchtmeier et al. 2000, 2001, 2003) have considerably enriched the sample of galaxies in the LV. A
significant number of new irregular dwarf galaxies with radial velocities VLG < 500 km/s were observed within the
"blind" HI survey of the southern sky performed at the Parks radio telescope (Staveley-Smith et al. 1998, Kilborn et al. 2002,
Zwaan et al. 2003, Koribalski et al. 2004, Meyer et al. 2004). The summary of these data, increasing the number of galaxies in the
LV up to N = 450 is reflected in the CNG catalog (Karachentsev et al. 2004).
In subsequent years, the growth of the sample of the LV occurred via detecting new dwarf galaxies within the SDSS optical
sky survey (Abazajian et al. 2009), the HIPASS (Wong et al. 2006), ALFALFA (Giovanelli et al. 2005, Haynes et al. 2011), and
Westerbork (Kovaĉ et al. 2009) HI surveys of the northern sky, and as a result of systematic search for dwarf satellites of
extremely low luminosity, resolved into stars, around the Milky Way (Willman et al. 2005, Belokurov et al. 2006), M31 (Ibata et
al. 2007, Martin et al. 2009) and M81 (Chiboucas et al., 2009). By now the number of candidate members in the LV with
distances D ≤ 10 Mpc has reached 720. It is clear that massive optical sky surveys like the Pan-STARRS (Tonry et al.
2012) and deeper "blind" HI surveys of the northern and southern sky will increase this number up to 1000 and over.
The Local Volume sample criterion
Selection of galaxies in the local spherical volume of 10 Mpc radius by the condition VLG < 500 km/s, used by
Kraan-Korteweg&Tammann (1979), assumed the Hubble parameter value of H0=50 km s-1 Mpc-1. At the current value of
H0=73 km s-1 Mpc-1 (Spergel et al. 2007), the limit set for radial velocities should be raised to
VLG < 730 km/s. However, the radial velocity of galaxy is only an approximate indication of its distance. In addition to
the virial component of velocity inherent in the nearby group members, the local velocity field is also affected by the presence of a
nearby rich Virgo cluster at a distance of 16.5 Mpc with the velocity dispersion of σv ≅ 650 km/s,
and an extensive Local Void (Tully 1988), which occupies about a quarter of the celestial sphere. According to Tully et al.
(2008), the presence of these two main elements of the local large-scale structure generates two velocity components of the
Local Group and surrounding galaxies: ~180 km/s towards the Virgo cluster center (12h30m + 12°),
and ~260 km/s in the direction away from the Local Void center, located in the region ~(19h00m + 3°).
An almost complete absence of galaxies in the region of the Local Void and their relative excess in the opposite direction creates a specific selection
effect: most of the galaxies at a distance of D=10 Mpc generally have radial velocities much lower than the expected value of
~730 km/s.
and galactic (top) coordinates. The Local Group members are not shown.
Galaxy distance and luminosity are indicated by circles of different colors and sizes.
The zone of avoidance in the Milky Way is outlined by the gray stripe.
An ideal solution would be a direct measurement of distances to all nearby galaxy candidates using the Hubble Space Telescope. As it
was shown by Rizzi et al. (2007), the tip of the red giant branch method (TRGB) gives the distance accuracy of ~5%
regardless of the galaxy morphological type. During the exposure time with Advanced Camera for Survey at HST,
corresponding to 1–2 orbits, the TRGB method allows to measure accurate distances up to 7–10 Mpc,
i.e., to completely solve the problem of creating a fair sample of the LV. A cost of the issue is, however, one to two
thousand orbits of the HST.
Other methods of distance measurement may be either used for a small number of objects (the Supernova method, the Cepheid
method), or be applicable only to galaxies of fixed morphology (method of surface brightness fluctuations, Tully-Fisher
and Faber-Jackson methods), or have an accuracy not better than 25% (method of brightest stars).
Given all these circumstances, we have included in the LV sample the galaxies having radial velocities with respect to centroid of the Local Group
The velocity–distance diagram for galaxies of the LV is presented in Figure 1. Beyond the upper edge of the
figure, there are 16 galaxies with D = (7-11) Mpc and VLG > 1100 km/s, almost all of them are located near
the line of sight, directed to the Virgo cluster center. Beyond the right edge of the figure, 72 galaxies with
VLG < 600 km/s are located, but with the distance estimates over 11 Mpc. We did not exclude such objects from
the sample for two reasons: a) their distance estimates can not be quite reliable, b) the distribution of such galaxies on the
sky may outline coherent motions in nearby diffuse filaments. In addition, the list of objects in the LV
contains 108 galaxies with individual distance estimates of D < 10 Mpc, which still have their radial velocities unmeasured.
Therefore, our total list of galaxies in the LV consists of more than 850 objects. As can be seen from Figure 1, about one
third of galaxies located in its upper right corner could be considered to belong to the D < 10 Mpc volume only conditionally,
since their typical distance measurement error is ~2 Mpc. It also follows from these data that limiting the sample by
the condition (1) only would introduce a strong selective effect, distorting the kinematic pattern of the LV.
Distribution of the LV galaxies on the sky is shown in Figure 2 in the equatorial (bottom panel) and galactic
(top panel) coordinates. The galaxies with distances of D = (1-11) Mpc are shown by circles, whose size reflects the
luminosity of galaxy, and color — its distance. Here the members of the Local Group with D < 1 Mpc were excluded. The
shaggy gray lane in the panels corresponds to the region of strong extinction in our Galaxy. The distribution of galaxies shows their
concentration in the region of well-known nearby groups around M81, Centaurus A, M83, IC342, NGC253, M101, NGC6946, Leo I,
etc. The figure exhibits an extensive area in the Hercules-Aquila, almost completely devoid of galaxies, i.e. the Local Void (Tully
1988). This void extends far beyond the LV boundary.