- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/abell
- Title:
- Abell Clusters
- Short Name:
- Abell
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The ABELL database contains information from a catalog of clusters of galaxies, each having at least 30 members within the magnitude range m3 to m3+2 (m3 is the magnitude of the third brightest cluster member) and each with a nominal redshift less than 0.2. The database contains the revised Northern Abell catalog, the Southern Abell catalog, and the Supplementary Southern Abell catalog; the catalogs are published as tables 3, 4 and 5 of Abell, Corwin & Orowin (1989). This database table was created by J. Osborne of Leicester from the STADAT SCAR file abelb.dat. The original SCAR version was created by Diana Parsons on 12 March 1990. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/abellzcat
- Title:
- Abell Clusters Measured Redshifts Catalog
- Short Name:
- ABELLZCAT
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The all-sky ACO (Abell, Corwin and Olowin 1989, ApJS, 70, 1) Catalog of 4073 rich clusters of galaxies and 1175 southern poor or distant S-clusters has been searched for published redshifts. Data for 1059 of them were found and classified into various quality classes, e.g. to reduce the problem of foreground contamination of redshifts. Taking the ACO selection criteria for redshifts, a total of 992 entries remain, 21 percent more than ACO. Redshifts for rich clusters are now virtually complete out to a redshift z of 0.05 in the north and of 0.04 in the south. In the north, the magnitude-redshift (m_10 - z) relation agrees with that of Kalinkov et al. (1985, Astr. Nachr., 306, 283). For the southern rich clusters, minor adjustments to the m_10 - z relation of ACO are suggested, while for the S-clusters the redshifts are about 30 percent lower than estimated. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2010 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/165A">CDS Catalog VII/165A</a> file catalog.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/baxgalclus
- Title:
- BAX X-Ray Galaxy Clusters and Groups Catalog
- Short Name:
- BAXGalClus
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the BAX X-Ray Galaxy Clusters and Groups Catalog. BAX (`Base de Donnees Amas de Galaxies X': see <a href="http://bax.ast.obs-mip.fr/">http://bax.ast.obs-mip.fr/</a> for more details) is a multi-wavelength database dedicated to X-ray clusters and groups of galaxies which allows detailed information retrieval. BAX is designed to support astronomical research by providing access to published measurements of the main physical quantities and to the related bibliographic references: basic data stored in the database are cluster/group identifiers, equatorial coordinates, redshift, flux, X-ray luminosity (in the ROSAT band) and temperature, and (in the online version at <a href="http://bax.ast.obs-mip.fr/">http://bax.ast.obs-mip.fr/</a>) links to additional linked parameters (in X-rays, such as spatial profile parameters, as well as SZ parameters of the hot gas, lensing measurements, and data at other wavelengths, such as the optical and radio bands). The clusters and groups in the online BAX database can be queried by the basic parameters as well as the linked parameters or combinations of these. The authors expect BAX to become an important tool for the astronomical community. BAX will optimize various aspects of the scientific analysis of X-ray clusters and groups of galaxies, from proposal planning to data collection, interpretation and publication, from both ground based facilities like MEGACAM (CFHT), VIRMOS (VLT) and from space missions like XMM-Newton, Chandra and Planck. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2004 based on CDS table B/bax/bax.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/hcg
- Title:
- Hickson Compact Groups of Galaxies (HCG) Catalog
- Short Name:
- Hickson Group
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The HCG database table is based on the Hickson Catalog, which is a list of 100 compact groups of galaxies that were identified by a systematic search of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey red prints. Each group contains four or more galaxies, has an estimated mean surface brightness brighter than 26.0 magnitude per arcsec<sup>2</sup> and satisfies an isolation criterion. Dynamical parameters which were derived for 92 of the 100 groups are also included in the database. (Note that the Hubble constant was assumed to be Ho = 100 km/s/Mpc.) This database table essentially contains the information given in Table 1 of Hickson, P. (1982, ApJ, 255, 382) and Table 3 of Hickson, P. et al. (1992, ApJ, 399, 353). Consequently, the information on individual galaxies in the Hickson groups that is also given in these references, e.g., in Table 2 of Hickson, P. et al. (1992, ApJ, 399, 353), is not in the HCG database table; however, the latter data can be found in the related HEASARC database table HCGGALAXY. This online catalog was created by the HEASARC in August, 1999, based on machine-readable tables obtained from the ADC/CDS data centers (<a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/213:">CDS catalog VII/213:</a> files groups.dat and dynamics.dat). The HEASARC refined the coordinates, corrected the dynamics_flag values, and updated the table's metadata in August, 2005. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/rasssdssgc
- Title:
- ROSAT All-Sky Survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 Galaxy Clusters
- Short Name:
- RASSSDSSGC
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The authors use ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) broad-band X-ray images and the optical clusters identified from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) to estimate the X-ray luminosities around ~65,000 candidate galaxy clusters with masses >~10<sup>13</sup> h<sup>-1</sup> M<sub>sun</sub> based on an optical to X-ray (OTX) code that they developed. They obtain a catalog with X-ray luminosities for all 64,646 clusters. A total of 34,522 (~53%) of these clusters have a signal-to-noise ratio S/N > 0 after subtracting the background signal. According to the reference paper (but see HEASARC Caveats section below), this catalog contains 817 clusters (473 at redshift z <= 0.12) with S/N > 3 for their X-ray detections (an additional 12,629 clusters have 3 >= S/N > 1 and 21,076 clusters have 1 >= S/N > 0). The authors find about 65% of these X-ray clusters have their most massive member located near the X-ray flux peak; for the remaining 35%, the most massive galaxy is separated from the X-ray peak, with the separation following a distribution expected from a Navarro-Frenk-White profile. In the reference paper, the authors investigate a number of correlations between the optical and X-ray properties of these X-ray clusters, and find that the cluster X-ray luminosity is correlated with the stellar mass (luminosity) of the clusters, as well as with the stellar mass (luminosity) of the central galaxy and the mass of the halo, although the scatter in these correlations is large. Comparing the properties of X-ray clusters of similar halo masses but having different X-ray luminosities, they find that massive haloes with masses >~10<sup>14</sup> h<sup>-1</sup> M<sub>sun</sub> contain a larger fraction of red satellite galaxies when they are brighter in X-ray. An opposite trend is found in central galaxies in relative low-mass haloes with masses <~10<sup>14</sup> h<sup>-1</sup> M<sub>sun</sub> where X-ray brighter clusters have smaller fraction of red central galaxies. Clusters with masses >~10<sup>14</sup> h<sup>-1</sup> M<sub>sun</sub> that are strong X-ray emitters contain many more low-mass satellite galaxies than weak X-ray emitters. These results are also confirmed by checking X-ray clusters of similar X-ray luminosities but having different characteristic stellar masses. The cluster catalog containing the optical properties of member galaxies and the X-ray luminosity is also available at <a href="http://gax.shao.ac.cn/data/Group.html">http://gax.shao.ac.cn/data/Group.html</a>. The optical data used in this analysis are taken from the SDSS galaxy group catalogs of Yang et al. (2007, ApJ, 671, 153), constructed using the adaptive halo-based group finder of Yang et al. (2005, MNRAS, 356, 1293), here updated to DR7. The parent galaxy catalog is the New York University Value-Added Galaxy Catalog (NYU-VAGC; Blanton et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 2562) based on the SDSS DR7 (Abazajian et al. 2009, ApJS, 182, 543), which contains an independent set of significantly improved reductions. In this study, the authors adopt a Lambda cold dark matter cosmology whose parameters are consistent with the 7-year data release of the WMAP mission: Omega<sub>m</sub> = 0.275, Omega<sub>Lambda</sub> = 0.725, h = H<sub>0</sub>/(100 km s<sup>-1</sup> Mpc<sup>-1</sup>) = 0.702, and sigma<sub>8</sub> = 0.816. This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2017 based upon the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/439/611">CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/439/611</a> file catalog.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/rosgalclus
- Title:
- ROSAT PSPC Catalog of Clusters of Galaxies
- Short Name:
- ROSAT/Clust.
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This is a catalog of 203 clusters of galaxies serendipitously detected in 647 ROSAT PSPC high Galactic latitude pointings covering 158 square degrees. This is one of the largest X-ray-selected cluster samples, comparable in size only to the ROSAT All-Sky Survey sample of nearby clusters (Ebeling et al. 1997). Clusters in the inner 17.'5 of the ROSAT PSPC field of view are detected using the spatial extent of their X-ray emission. Fluxes of detected clusters range from 1.6 x 10<sup>-14</sup> to 8 x 10<sup>-12</sup> ergs s<sup>-1</sup> cm<sup>-2</sup> in the 0.5-2 keV energy band. X-ray luminosities range from 10<sup>42</sup> ergs s<sup>-1</sup>, corresponding to very poor groups, to ~5 x 10<sup>44</sup> ergs s<sup>-1</sup>, corresponding to rich clusters. The cluster redshifts range from z = 0.015 to z > 0.5. The catalog lists X-ray fluxes, core radii, and spectroscopic redshifts for 73 clusters and photometric redshifts for the remainder. Of 223 X-ray sources, 203 have been optically confirmed as clusters of galaxies. Of the remaining 20 sources, 19 are likely false detections arising from blends of unresolved point X-ray sources. Optical identifications of the remaining object are hampered by a nearby bright star. Above a flux of 2 x 10<sup>-13</sup> ergs s<sup>-1</sup> cm<sup>-2</sup>, 98% of extended X-ray sources are optically confirmed clusters. The number of false detections and their flux distribution are in perfect agreement with simulations. The log N-log S relation for clusters derived from this catalog shows excellent agreement with counts of bright clusters derived from the Einstein Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey and the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. At fainter fluxes, its log N-log S relation agrees with the smaller area WARPS survey. The cluster counts appear to be systematically higher than those from a 50 square degree survey by Rosati et al. This database was created by the HEASARC in December 2001 based on the CDS/ADC catalog J/ApJ/502/558/ (table3.dat). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/shk
- Title:
- Shakbazian Compact Groups of Galaxies
- Short Name:
- Shk.(Group)
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This catalog is a compilation of ten lists of compact groups of compact galaxies found on the Palomar Sky Survey red charts and published in the period 1973 to 1979 by Shakhbazian, Petrosian, and collaborators. The catalog contains 377 groups of compact galaxies and includes identifications, equatorial coordinates, numbers of constituent galaxies, magnitudes of the brightest member, sizes of the groups as a whole, and coefficients of relative compactness. The HEASARC has a related database table, SHKGALAXY, which contains data on the individual galaxies in the Shakhbazian Compact Groups. This database table was created by the HEASARC in December, 1999, based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/89B">CDS catalog VII/89B</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/wbl
- Title:
- WBL Poor Galaxy Clusters Catalog (White et al. 1999)
- Short Name:
- WBL
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Catalog of Nearby Poor Clusters of Galaxies of White et al. (1999), also known as the WBL Catalog, is a catalog of 732 optically selected, nearby poor clusters of galaxies covering the entire sky north of -3 degrees declination. The poor clusters, called WBL clusters, were identified as concentrations of three or more galaxies with photographic magnitudes brighter than 15.7, possessing a galaxy surface overdensity of 10^(4/3). These criteria are consistent with those used in the identification of the original Yerkes poor clusters, and this new catalog substantially increases the sample size of such objects. These poor clusters cover the entire range of galaxy associations up to and including Abell clusters, systematically including poor and rich galaxy systems spanning over 3 orders of magnitude in the cluster mass function. As a result, this new catalog contains a greater diversity of richness and structures than other group catalogs, such as the Hickson and Yerkes catalogs. This table contains the entries for the clusters (given in Table 2 of the published catalog) and includes redshift data (where available) and cross-references to other group and cluster catalogs. The WBLGALAXY table (q.v.) contains the entries for the individual galaxies in the clusters which ere given in Table 3 of the published catalog. The WBL table was created by the HEASARC in July 2002 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AJ/118/2014">CDS Catalog J/AJ/118/2014</a> (the file table2.dat). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/zwclusters
- Title:
- Zwicky Clusters
- Short Name:
- Zwicky
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The ZWCLUSTERS database is based upon the Catalogue of Zwicky Clusters of Galaxies. The Zwicky clusters were identified by F. Zwicky in 560 POSS fields. They are rich clusters, each having at least 50 members within 3 magnitudes of the brightest member. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
