Filament structures around the Virgo Cluster

We present a large scale structure consisting of eight galaxy filaments around the Virgo cluster in the window of -20 Mpc < SGX, SGZ < 20 Mpc, and 4 Mpc < SGY < 32 Mpc using the HyperLEDA database. While six of the filaments were reported in previous studies, two filaments are newly found in this study. We exploited a large number of faint ($M_B$ < -10) galaxies in comparison with previous studies, which facilitates defining filaments more clearly. The previously known filaments are all in SGY < 16 Mpc and appear to distribute in association with the Virgo cluster in galaxy distribution. Moreover, peculiar velocities of galaxies in these filaments show a distinct offset from the Hubble flow indicating their infall motion toward the Virgo cluster. All of these results confirm that these filamentary structures are under the gravitational influence of the Virgo cluster. Both of the newly discovered filaments are located beyond the 'zero-velocity surface' of the Virgo cluster. One of them is associated in the NGC5353/4 group and the other one appears to penetrates the W and M group of the Virgo cluster. The filamentary structure around the Virgo cluster consisting mainly of the dwarf galaxies allows us to achieve a better understanding of large scale structure and its influence on the build-up of the galaxy cluster at z~0.