List of Abell clusters
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The Abell catalogue is an almost complete catalogue of approximately 4000 galaxy clusters with at least 30 members to a redshift of z = 0.2. It was originally compiled by George Abell in 1958 using the plates of POSS, and extended to the southern hemisphere by Abell, Corwin and Olowin in 1987. The name 'Abell' also commonly is used as a designation for objects he compiled in a catalog of 86 planetary nebulae in 1966. The proper designation for the galaxy clusters is 'ACO' eg 'ACO 13'; while the planetary nebulae designation is the single letter 'A' eg 'A 39'.
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- Abell 13
- Abell 85
- Abell 133
- Abell 226
- Abell 262
- Abell 263
- Abell 370 - in Cetus, exhibits gravitational lensing
- Abell 400 - in Cetus
- Abell 401 - in Aries
- Abell 426 - the Perseus Cluster
- Abell 514
- Abell 520 - the “Train Wreck”, in Orion
- Abell 553
- Abell 569
- Abell 576 - in Lynx
- Abell 653 - in Hydra
- Abell 689 - in Cancer
- Abell 754 - in Hydra
- Abell 901
- Abell 955
- Abell 966
- Abell 1060 - the Hydra Cluster
- Abell 1146 - in Crater
- Abell 1367 - the Leo Cluster
- Abell 1631
- Abell 1656 - the Coma Cluster
- Abell 1689 - in Virgo, one of the biggest and most massive galaxy clusters known; acts as a gravitational lens
- Abell 1795 - in Boötes
- Abell 1835 - in Virgo, behind which lies a candidate for the furthest known galaxy, "Galaxy Abell 1835 IR1916", seen through gravitational lensing
- Abell 1914 - in Boötes
- Abell 2029 - in Virgo, near the border with Serpens Caput
- Abell 2052
- Abell 2061
- Abell 2065 - the Corona Borealis Cluster
- Abell 2142 - in Corona Borealis, a merger of two huge galaxy clusters
- Abell 2147 - in Serpens Caput and a member of the Hercules Supercluster.
- Abell 2151 - the Hercules Cluster, major component of the Hercules Supercluster
- Abell 2152 - the smaller part of the Hercules supercluster, Lx ≤ 3 x 1044 ergs/s.[1]
- Abell 2163
- Abell 2199 - in Hercules
- Abell 2200 - in Hercules
- Abell 2218 - in Draco, exhibits gravitational lensing
- Abell 2256 - in Ursa Minor
- Abell 2319 - in Cygnus, very close to, and possibly extending into, Lyra
- Abell 2384 - in Capricornus
- Abell 2440
- Abell 2589 - in Pegasus
- Abell 2666
- Abell 2667 - in Sculptor, a gravitational lens that produces one of the brightest gravitational arcs in the sky
- Abell 2744 - or Pandora’s Cluster, in Sculptor. It seems to have formed from four different clusters involved in a series of collisions over a period of some 350 million years.[2]
- Abell 3128 - the Shapley 20 cluster
- Abell 3158 - the Shapley 17 cluster
- Abell 3266 - in Reticulum, part of the Horologium-Reticulum supercluster
- Abell 3341
- Abell 3363
- Abell 3526 - the Centaurus Cluster
- Abell 3558 - the Shapley 8 cluster
- Abell 3562 - part of the Shapley Supercluster
- Abell 3565 - part of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster
- Abell 3574 - part of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster
- Abell 3581 - part of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster
- Abell 3627 - the Norma cluster
- Abell 3854
- Abell 4059
- Abell S636 - the Antlia Cluster, part of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster
- Abell S740 - 450 Mly away in the constellation Centaurus
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[edit] References
- ^ Reichert G, Mason KO, Charles PA, Bowyer S, Lea SM, Pravdo S (Aug 1981). "Low energy X-ray emission from five galaxy cluster sources". Ap J. 247: 803–12. Bibcode 1981ApJ...247..803R. doi:10.1086/159092.
- ^ ESO-A Galactic Crash Investigation
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