6.1. Luminosity segregation
Zwicky  was the first to notice that bright and faint galaxies in Coma have different radial distribution, bright galaxies being more concentrated. His finding was at odd with the conclusion reached by Omer  few years before. In the 60's the evidence for luminosity segregation had less supporters (Reaves ) than opponents (Abell  and Omer ), until the new data-set of Rood allowed Rood & Turnrose  to conclude that dwarfs are indeed less concentrated than bright galaxies (see Fig. 11). Their results were confirmed by Noonan .
Figure 11. Bright and dwarf galaxy distributions in concentric rings centered on the Coma cluster centre. The ring no. increases with clustercentric distance - from Rood & Turnrose.
However, the luminosity segregation in Coma is not a very strong effect. Rood  and White ,  noted that a much stronger effect would result from two-body relaxation if all the cluster dark mass was in galaxy halos.
Using the new data-set of Godwin & Peach, Capelato et al.  showed that luminosity segregation is a more complicated issue than previously thought. While dynamical friction tends to produce a concentration of brighter galaxies in the Coma centre, merging of these same galaxies tends to reduce the number of intermediate brightness galaxies, and to create ultra-bright galaxies. Observationally, this effect is seen as an anti-segregation of galaxies with m25 14.5. Capelato et al.'s observational evidence was reproduced in Roos & Aarseth's numerical simulations only two years later (see also Athanassoula, these proceedings).
Thompson & Gregory showed that, among the dwarf galaxies, dwarf ellipticals follow the same distribution of giant ellipticals, while dwarf spheroidals are lacking in the core. This was interpreted as evidence for tidal disruption of the spheroidal galaxies (see also Secker, these proceedings).
Recently, Biviano et al.  showed that faint galaxies describe a more regular cluster than do bright galaxies, for which the effect of subclustering is stronger, and interpreted this finding as evidence for ongoing accretion of groups onto the cluster (see also 7 and Lobo, these proceedings).