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We present HST/ACS images and color-magnitude diagrams for 25 nearby galaxies with radial velocities VLG < 500 km/s. Distances are determined based on the luminosities of stars at the tip of the red giant branch that range from 2 Mpc to 12 Mpc. Two of the galaxies, NGC 4163 and IC 4662, are found to be the nearest known representatives of blue compact dwarf (BCD) objects. Using high-quality data on distances and radial velocities of 110 nearby field galaxies, we derive their mean Hubble ratio to be 68 km/ (s Mpc) with standard deviation of 15 km/ (s Mpc). Peculiar velocities of most of the galaxies, Vₚec = VLG - 68 D, follow a Gaussian distribution with sigmaᵥ = 63 km/s, but with a tail towards high negative values. Our data displays the known correlation between peculiar velocity and galaxy elevation above the Local Supercluster plane. The small observed fraction of galaxies with high peculiar velocities, Vₚec < -500 km/s, may be understood as objects associated with nearby groups (Coma I, Eridanus) outside the Local volume.
Караченцев et al. (Wed,) studied this question.