SMAC Project

SMAC (Streaming Motions of Abell Clusters) is a study of 56 Abell clusters, mostly within 120 Mpc/h.

News

• Nature
• Science
• and that esteemed newspaper, The Victoria Times-Colonist

Papers

• Hudson, Michael J., Lucey, John R., Smith, Russell J., Schlegel, David J., & Davies, Roger L. 2001, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 327, pp. 265-295. Streaming motions of galaxy clusters within 12 000 km s^-1 - III. A standardized catalogue of Fundamental Plane data
• Smith, Russell J., Lucey, J. R., Schlegel, D. J., Hudson, Michael J., Baggley, Glenn, & Davies, Roger L. 2001, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 327, pp. 249-264. Streaming motions of galaxy clusters within 12 000 km s^-1 - II. New photometric data for the Fundamental Plane
• Blakeslee, John P., Lucey, John R., Barris, Brian J., Hudson, Michael J., & Tonry, John L. 2001, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 327, pp. 1004-1020. A synthesis of data from fundamental plane and surface brightness fluctuation surveys
• Kuntschner, Harald, Lucey, John R., Smith, Russell J., Hudson, Michael J., & Davies, Roger L. 2001, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 323, pp. 615-629. On the dependence of spectroscopic indices of early-type galaxies on age, metallicity and velocity dispersion
• Smith R. J., Lucey J. R., Hudson M. J., Schlegel D. J. & Davies R. L. 2000, "Streaming motions of galaxy clusters within 12000 km/s - I. New spectroscopic data", Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc., 313, 469-490.
• Hudson M. J., Smith R. J., Lucey J. R., Schlegel D. J. & Davies R. L.1999, ``A Large Scale Bulk Flow of Clusters of Galaxies'', ApJL, 512, L79

Movies

MPG movie showing SMAC cluster peculiar velocities and errors. Click here to download (1.9Mb).

Data

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