A catalogue of velocities in the cluster of galaxies Abell 85 ^*,**

¹ Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 98bis Bd. Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
² DAEC, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris VII, CNRS (UA 173), F-92195 Meudon Cedex, France
³ Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 823, 4150 Porto, Portugal
⁴ Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, BP. 229, F-06304 Nice Cedex 4, France

Send offprint request to: F. Durret, durret@iap.fr

Received: 29 April 1997
Accepted: 3 September 1997

Abstract

We present a catalogue of velocities for 551 galaxies (and give the coordinates of 39 stars misclassified as galaxies in our photometric plate catalogue) in a region covering about (0.94×0.94 Mpc for an average redshift of 0.0555, assuming H₀=50 km s^-1 Mpc^-1) in the direction of the rich cluster ABCG 85. This catalogue includes previously published redshifts by Beers et al. (1991) and Malumuth et al. (1992), together with our 367 new measurements. A total of 305 galaxies have velocities in the interval 13350-20000 km s^-1, and will be considered as members of the cluster.ABCG 85 therefore becomes one of the clusters with the highest number of measured redshifts; its optical properties are being investigated in a companion paper.