Meanings
adjectivegroupcentric (not comparable)
- not comparableWith respect to the centre of a galactic group
The velocity dispersions of early- and late-type galaxies in compact groups change little with groupcentric radius; the radii sampled are less than 100~h#123;-1#125; kpc, smaller than the radii typically sampled by members of massive clusters of galaxies.
2016, Jubee Sohn, Ho Seong Hwang, Margaret J. Geller, Antonaldo Diaferio, Kenneth J. Rines, Myung Gyoon Lee, Gwang-Ho Lee, “Compact Groups of Galaxies with Complete Spectroscopic Redshifts in the Local Universe”, in JKAS, volume 2015
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