- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/cgmw
- Title:
- Candidate Galaxies Behind the Milky Way
- Short Name:
- CG
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This catalog gathers the searches for galaxies of apparent size greater than 0.1 mm on film (6.7" in angular size) lieing behind the Milky Way from photographic surveys in the near-infrared. The four volumes (CGMW1, CGMW2, CGMW3, and CGMW4) cover the galactic longitude ranges from -7 to +43 degrees, and from 210 to 250 degrees. The two volumes, CGMW1 and CGMW2, giving about 7000 galaxies behind the Milky Way between l = 210 degrees and 250 degrees, represent a systematic search for galaxies by means of 32 film copies of the UK Schmidt Southern Infrared Atlas on the Milky Way covering about 900 square degrees. In the search galaxies with apparent sizes greater than 0.1mm on film (6.7 arcsec in size) were detected by visual inspection. The material and procedure of search are described as well as the detectability of galaxies in paper I and paper II appended before Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 of the catalog, respectively, which have been published in Publ. Astron. Soc Japan, Vol. 42 (1990) and Vol. 43 (1991). The parameters of catalogued galaxies are also explained in paper I. Cross-identifications with other catalogs are also given. The third volume CGMW3 lists about 5300 galaxy candidates having sizes larger than 0.1 arcminutes that were found in a search of Schmidt atlases covering a Milky Way region of about 800 square degrees around l = 8 to 43 degrees, and b = -17 to +17 degrees. This surveyed region is located between the northern Local void and the Ophiuchus void. The fourth volume CGMW4 lists about 7150 galaxies and galaxy candidates having sizes larger than 0.1 arcminutes that were found in a search of Schmidt atlases covering a Milky Way region of about 260 square degrees around l = -7 to +16 degrees, and b = -19 to -1 degrees, i.e., a field in Sagittarius in the Galactic Center region. This database was created by the HEASARC in October 1999 based on a machine-readable version that was obtained from the CDS Data Center. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/zcat
- Title:
- CfA Redshift Catalog (June 1995 Version)
- Short Name:
- CFAZ
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The ZCAT database contains the CfA Redshift Catalog, which incorporates much of the latest velocity data from the Whipple Observatory and other sources, as well as velocities from earlier compilations such as the "Second Reference Catalog" of de Vaucouleurs, de Vaucouleurs, and Corwin; the "Index of Galaxy Spectra" of Gisler and Friel; and the "Catalog of Radial Velocities of Galaxies" of Palumbo, Tanzella-Nitti, and Vettolani. It includes BT magnitudes, some UGC numbers, and increased "accuracy" in the velocity source information. The data presented here have primarily been assembled for the purpose of studying the large scale structure of the universe, and, as such, are nearly complete in redshift information, but are not necessarily complete in such categories as diameter, magnitude, and cross-references to other catalogues. The original HEASARC version was constructed based on an earlier version of the catalog and was released on November 15, 1996. The HEASARC created the current version of ZCAT in February 2001 based on CDS/ADC Catalog VII/193, "The CfA Redshift Catalogue", Version June 1995, tables <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/193/zcat.dat">https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/193/zcat.dat</a> and zbig.dat. The former table contains the main body of the CFA Redshift Catalog (57536 objects) and entries from it are distinguishable in the current database by having either listed radial velocity values but not redshifts or neither, while the latter table contains 1202 high-redshift galaxies (distinguishable in the current database by their having listed redshift values but not radial velocities). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/cfa2s
- Title:
- CfA Redshift Survey: South Galactic Cap Data
- Short Name:
- CfARed.S.
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Center for Astrophysics (CfA) Redshift Survey South Galactic Cap (CFA2S) Catalog contains redshifts for a sample of about 4300 galaxies with blue (Zwicky B(0) type) magnitude <= 15.5 covering the range from 20 h to 4h in right ascension and from -2.5 deg to 90 deg in declination. This sample is complete for all galaxies in the merge of the Zwicky et al. and Nilson catalogs in the south Galactic cap. Redshifts for 2964 of these were measured as part of the second CfA Redshift Survey. The data reveal large voids in the foreground and background of the Perseus-Pisces Supercluster. The largest of these voids lies at a mean velocity ~ 8000km/s, has diameter of ~ 5000km/s, and is enclosed by a complex of dense structures. The large structure known as the Perseus-Pisces Supercluster forms the near side of this complex. On the far side of this large void, at a mean velocity of ~ 12000km/s, there is another coherent dense wall. The structures in this survey support the view that galaxies generally lie on surfaces surrounding or nearly surrounding low-density regions or voids. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2005 based on CDS table J/ApJS/121/287/cfa2s.dat.gz This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/sixdfgs
- Title:
- 6dFGS Galaxy Survey Final Redshift Release Catalog
- Short Name:
- SIXDFGS
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The final redshift release of the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) is a combined redshift and peculiar velocity survey over the southern sky (|b| > 10 degrees). Its 136,304 spectra have yielded 110,256 new extragalactic redshifts and a new catalogue of 125,071 galaxies making near-complete samples with limits in (K, H, J, r<sub>F</sub>, b<sub>J</sub>) (12.65, 12.95, 13.75, 15.60, 16.75). The median redshift of the survey is 0.053. The catalog includes basic data for the galaxies in the 6dFGS with redshifts, using the best 6dFGS redshifts (radial velocity quality flag Q =3 or 4) plus available redshifts from SDSS, 2dFGRS and ZCAT (124,647 entries in all). It supersedes the previous DR2 version (CDS Cat. VII/249). The home page of of the 6dFGS database is <a href="http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/6dFGS">http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/6dFGS</a>. Any use of these data should explicitly state that they come from the Final Release of 6dFGS and cite both the 6dGS DR3 paper (Jones et al. 2009, MNRAS, 399, 683) as well as the original 6dFGS survey paper (Jones et al. 2004, MNRAS, 355, 747). This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2011 based on CDS Catalog VII/259 file 6dfgs.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/esouppsala
- Title:
- ESO-Uppsala ESO(B) Survey
- Short Name:
- ESO/Uppsala
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This database table was derived from information provided in "The ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO(B) Atlas" (ESO/U), which is a joint project undertaken by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Uppsala Observatory to provide a systematic and homogeneous search of the ESO(B) Atlas (also known as the Quick Blue Survey). The ESO(B) Atlas, taken with the ESO 1 m Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, covers 606 fields from -90 to -20 degrees of declination. The fields are similar in size and scale to those of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey. Unsensitized IIa-O plates and a 2 mm GG385 filter were used to give a passband similar to the Johnson B color. Additional information is available from the HEASARC. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/markarian
- Title:
- First Byurakan Survey (Markarian) Catalog of UV-Excess Galaxies
- Short Name:
- Markarian
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- A catalog of galaxies with UV-continuum (Markarian galaxies) detected during the First Byurakan Survey (FBS) is presented. The purpose of the FBS was to search for peculiar faint extragalactic objects with UV-excess radiation and to study them. The procedure of observations and processing, the FBS areas, the object selection and classification criteria and also several selection effects are described in the reference. The catalog contains the following initial data on all the objects: the precise coordinates, visual magnitudes, angular sizes, redshifts and classification types. The observational results of slit spectra, UBV-photometry, IR-photometry (IRAS data), morphology and some other data are also included in the catalog. While compiling the catalog, the authors introduced some necessary corrections in the data of the earlier published lists on galaxies with UV-continuum excesses. In addition, the authors included the objects with numbers 1501-1515. In most cases, they are well-known Seyfert galaxies omitted by the authors in the lists, but detected on the plates. 48 objects from their lists are not included in the catalog, since they are either stars of our Galaxy or star projections on the galaxies. This catalog presents the largest homogeneous sample of AGN of different types on the northern sky for bright objects (apparent magnitude < 16.0). Up to the middle of 1987 redshifts were measured for 1459 out of 1469 objects in the catalog. This table was created by the HEASARC in November 2009 based on the electronic version of the First Byurakan Survey (Markarian galaxies catalog) which was obtained from the CDS (their catalog VII/172 file table7.dat). It replaced an earlier version of the 'Markarian Catalog' which was based on the original galaxy lists of Markarian et al. (<a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/61A">CDS catalog VII/61A</a>). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/denisigal
- Title:
- First DENIS I-band Extragalactic Catalog
- Short Name:
- DENIS/I
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This database contains the release of the provisional extragalactic catalog constructed from the "Deep Near Infrared Southern Sky Survey" (DENIS) and is sometimes referred to as REDCAT (Rapid Extraction from DENIS Catalog). It was created using an automatic galaxy recognition program based on a discriminating analysis, the efficiency of which is estimated to be better than 99%. The nominal accuracy for galaxy coordinates calculated with the Guide Star Catalog is about 6 arcseconds. The cross-identification with galaxies available in the Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic DAtabase (LEDA) allows a calibration of the I-band photometry with the sample of Mathewson et al. (1992, ApJS, 81, 413) and Mathewson and Ford (1996, ApJS, 107, 97). Thus, the catalog contains total I-band magnitude, isophotal diameter, axis ratio, position angle and a rough estimate of the morphological type code for 20620 galaxies. The internal completeness of this catalog reaches a limiting I-band magnitude of 14.5, with a photometric accuracy of 0.18 mag. 25% of the Southern sky has been processed in this study. This database was created by the HEASARC in July 1999 based on a machine-readable version that was obtained form the CDS Data Center. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/exgalemobj
- Title:
- Hewitt&Burbidge(1991)CatalogofExtragalacticEmission-LineObjects
- Short Name:
- H&B91
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This is the Hewitt & Burbidge (1991) Optical Catalog of Extragalactic Emission-Line Objects Similar to Quasi-Stellar Objects. It contains a total of 935 galaxies which have optical properties similar to QSOs. Most of the objects appear to be nonstellar. The majority, more than 700, have redshifts z that are <= 0.2, and most have been classified as Seyfert galaxies, N systems, or radio galaxies. The redshift distribution peaks at z ~ 0.025, but there are about 200 powerful radio galaxies in the extended tail of the distribution which have z > 0.2. There is a separate and distinct peak in the redshift distribution at z = 0.06. Notice that this catalog does not include star-like objects with emission-line redshifts >= 0.1 (these can be found in the HEASARC QSO database which contains the Revised and Updated Catalog of Quasi-Stellar Objects" of Hewitt, A. and Burbidge, G. 1993, ApJS, Vol. 87, pp. 451-947). Neither does it contain LINERs (sometimes called Seyfert 3 galaxies) or starburst galaxies. This database was created by the HEASARC in February 2001 based on CDS/ADC Catalog VII/178 (table1.dat). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/hcggalaxy
- Title:
- Hickson Compact Groups of Galaxies (HCG) Individual Galaxies Data
- Short Name:
- Hickson(Gal)
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The HCGGALAXY database table is based on the Hickson Catalog of Compact Groups, and contains data on 463 galaxies in 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^2 and satisfies an isolation criterion. Astrometry, photometry, and morphological types, derived from CCD images, are presented for the 463 galaxies. Radial velocities are given for 457 of the 463 galaxies: more than 84% of the galaxies measured have radial velocities that are within 1000 km/s of the group median velocity. Morphological information derived from either an isophotal analysis or from a visual inspection of images is given for 210 of the 463 galaxies. This database table essentially contains the information given in Table 2 of Hickson, P. et al. (1989, ApJS, 70, 687), Table 2 of Hickson, P. et al. (1992, ApJ, 399, 353), and Table 2 of Mendes de Oliveira, C. and Hickson, P. (1994, ApJ, 427, 684). Consequently, the information on the properties of the Hickson Compact Groups as units that is also given in some of these references, e.g., in Table 3 of Hickson, P. et al. (1992, ApJ, 399, 353), is not in the HCGGALXY database table; however, the latter data can be found in the related HEASARC database table HCG. This database table was created by the HEASARC in August, 1999, based on machine-readable tables obtained from the ADC/CDS data centers (CDS catalog VII/213, files galaxies.dat and morpho.dat). The HEASARC added Galactic coordinates and updated the table's metadata in August, 2005. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/markarian2
- Title:
- Markarian Galaxies Optical Database
- Short Name:
- MARKARIAN2
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- A database for the entire Markarian (First Byurakan Spectral Sky Survey or FBS) Catalog is presented that combines extensive new measurements of their optical parameters with a literature and database search. The measurements were made using images extracted from the STScI Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) of F_pg (red) and J_pg (blue) band photographic sky survey plates obtained by the Palomar and UK Schmidt telescopes. The authors provide accurate coordinates, morphological type, spectral and activity classes, red and blue apparent magnitudes, apparent diameters, axial ratios, and position angles, as well as number counts of neighboring objects in a circle of radius 50 kpc. Special attention was paid to the individual descriptions of the galaxies in the original Markarian lists, which clarified many cases of misidentifications of the objects, particularly among interacting systems, larger galaxies with knots of star formation, possible stars, and cases of stars projected on galaxies. The total number of individual Markarian objects in the database is now 1544. The authors also have included redshifts which are now available for 1524 of the objectswith UV-excess radiation, as well as Galactic color excess E(B-V) values and their 2MASS or DENIS infrared magnitudes. The table also includes extensive notes that summarize information about the membership of Markarian galaxies in different systems of galaxies and about new and revised activity classes and redshifts. The new optical information on Markarian galaxies was obtained from images extracted from the STScI Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) of F_pg (red) and J_pg (blue) band photographic sky survey plates obtained by the Palomar and UK Schmidt telescopes. This table was created by the HEASARC in November 2009 based on the electronic version of the optical database of Markarian galaxies which was obtained from the CDS (their catalog J/ApJS/170/33 file table1.dat). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/mcg
- Title:
- Morphological Galaxy Catalog
- Short Name:
- MCG
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The MCG database contains the "Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies," a compilation of information for approximately 34,000 galaxies found and examined on the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS). Individual identifiers are assigned for about 29,000 galaxies and information on the remaining 5,000 is present in the extensive notes of the published catalogs (Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al. 1962-1968). The catalog is structured according to the POSS zones and is numbered from +15 (corresponding to +90 deg) to +01 (+06 deg zone) and +00 (equatorial zone) to -05 (-30 deg zone); the fields are numbered with increasing right ascension. The original goal of the compilation was to be complete for galaxies brighter than magnitude 15.1, but the final catalog lists many objects considerably fainter. Information given in the original printed volumes includes: cross- identifications to the NGC (Dreyer 1888) and IC (Dreyer 1895, 1908) catalogs, equatorial coordinates for 1950.0, magnitude, estimated sizes and intensities of the bright inner region and the entire object, estimated inclination, and coded description (by symbols) of the appearance of the galaxy. Each field is then followed by notes on individual objects. All of the above data except the coded description are included in the machine version, except that special coding (e.g. for uncertainty or source designation) is not present (other than for the NGC/IC cross identifications [added at the Astronomical Data Center for this machine version]). Although the notes are not computerized, the presence of a note in the original is flagged in the machine version Detailed descriptions of modifications, corrections and the record format are provided for the machine-readable version of the "Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies" (Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al. 1962-68); see the Additional Information section below. In addition to hundreds of individual corrections, a detailed comparison of the machine-readable with the published catalog resulted in the addition of 116 missing objects, the deletion of 10 duplicate records, and a format modification to increase storage efficiency. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/pgc2003
- Title:
- Principal Galaxy Catalog (PGC) 2003
- Short Name:
- PGC
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Principal Galaxy Catalog, 2003 Version (PGC2003) is a new catalog of principal galaxies. It constitutes the framework of the HYPERLEDA database that supersedes the LEDA one, with more data and more capabilities. The catalog is still restricted to confirmed galaxies, i.e. about one million galaxies, brighter than a B-magnitude of ~18. In order to provide the best possible identification for each galaxy, the authors give accurate coordinates (typical accuracy of better than 2 arcseconds), diameters, axis ratios and position angles. Diameters and axis ratios have been homogenized to the RC2 system at the limiting surface brightness of 25 B-mag/arcsec<sup>2</sup>, using a new method (EPIDEMIC). In order to provide the best designation for each galaxy, the authors have collected names from 50 catalogs. The compatibility of the spelling has been tested against NED and SIMBAD, and, as far as possible a spelling is used that is compatible with both. For some cases, where no consensus exists between NED, SIMBAD and LEDA, the authors have proposed some changes that could make the spelling of names fully compatible. The full catalog is distributed through the CDS and can be extracted from HYPERLEDA, <a href="http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/">http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/</a>. This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2004 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/237">CDS catalog VII/237</a> file pgc.dat.gz. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/shkgalaxy
- Title:
- Shakhabazian (Shk) Compact Groups of Galaxies: Individual Galaxies Data
- Short Name:
- Shk.(Gal.)
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The largest survey of compact galaxy groups was published by Shakhbazian et al. (the CDS catalog VII/89, implemented by the HEASARC as the SHK database table). This present catalog provides accurate positions of the individual galaxies in the groups; photometric properties of the Southern sky (delta not greater than +2.5 degrees) are evaluated on the basis of the COSMOS/UKST catalog of the Southern sky. This catalog contains 373 groups; this number differs from the number in Shakhbazian's list (377 groups) by the following: (i) there are no data for groups 001 (already published by other authors), 206 and 241 (could not be re-identified), 252 (this is identical with 214), 301 and 353 (could not be re-identified); (ii) Group 328 was published twice (in North and South); and (iii) Group 340 was divided in two parts (340 and 340a), according to Bettoni and Fasano ([BF95]=1995AJ....109...32B). This HEASARC version of the catalog contains a total of 3435 individual galaxies identified as members of the compact groups, 2574 from the northern part of this survey (taken from the ADS Catalog VII/196 file north.dat), and 861 from the southern part of this survey (extracted from the 10746 entries in the ADS Catalog VII/196 file south.dat by including only entries corresponding to bona fide group members). This database table was created by the HEASARC in June, 2000, based on the CDS Catalog VII/196 (files north.dat and south.dat). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/rc3
- Title:
- Third Reference Catalog of Bright Galaxies
- Short Name:
- RC3
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the machine-readable version of the Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies (RC3) by G. de Vaucouleurs, A. de Vacouleurs, H.G. Corwin, R.J. Buta, P. Fouque, and G. Paturel, originally published by Springer-Verlag in 1991, and including some corrections and additions made by Corwin et al. (1994, AJ, 108, 2128). Only brief parameter descriptions are given in this help file. Detailed information about, for example, how certain quantities were derived, or exactly what a given code means, can be found in the printed version of RC3. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2007 based on CDS table VII/155/rc3, and replaced an earlier version which did not contain the corrections made by Corwin et al. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/uzc
- Title:
- Updated Zwicky Catalog
- Short Name:
- UZC
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Zwicky Catalog of Galaxies, with a magnitude limit m<sub>Zw</sub> <= 15.5, has been the basis for the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) redshift surveys. To date, analyses of the Zwicky Catalog and redshift surveys based on it have relied on heterogeneous sets of galaxy coordinates and redshifts. In this Updated Zwicky Catalog (UZC), some of the inadequacies of previous catalogs are corrected by providing (1) coordinates with ~<2 arcsecond errors for all of the 19,369 catalog galaxies, (2) homogeneously estimated redshifts cz (radial velocities) for the majority (98%) of the data taken at the CfA (14,632 spectra), and (3) an estimate of the remaining "blunder" rate for both the CfA redshifts and for those compiled from the literature. For the reanalyzed CfA data a calibrated, uniformly determined error and an indication of the presence of emission lines in each spectrum are included. Redshifts (radial velocities) are provided for the 7257 galaxies in the CfA2 redshift survey that were not previously published; for another 5625 CfA redshifts (radial velocities), the remeasured or uniformly rereduced values are listed. Among the new measurements, 1807 are members of UZC "multiplets" associated with the original Zwicky catalog position in the coordinate range where the catalog is 98% complete. These multiplets provide new candidates for examination of tidal interaction among galaxies. All of the new redshifts (radial velocities) correspond to UZC galaxies with properties recorded in the CfA redshift compilation known as ZCAT. The redshift catalog included in the UZC is ~96% complete to m<sub>Zw</sub> <= 15.5 and ~98% complete (12,925 galaxies out of a total of 13,150) for the right ascension ranges 20 hr >= RA(1950) <= 4 hr and 8 hr <= RA(1950) <= 17 hr and the declination range -2.5 degrees <= Dec(1950) <= 50 degrees. This more complete region includes all of the CfA2 survey as analyzed to the date of the publication of the UZC (1999). This database was created by the HEASARC in October 2000 based on a machine-readable version obtained from the CDS (Catalog J/PASP/111/438). It was slightly revised in February 2001 (the 'redshift' parameters were renamed as 'radial velocity' parameters to conform with the usage in other similar HEASARC extragalactic catalogs). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ugc
- Title:
- Uppsala General Catalog of Galaxies
- Short Name:
- UGC
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC) is an essentially complete catalog of galaxies to a limiting diameter of 1.0 arcminute and/or to a limiting apparent magnitude of 14.5 on the blue prints of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS). Coverage is limited to the sky north of declination -02.5 degrees. Galaxies smaller than 1.0 arcminute in diameter but brighter than 14.5 mag may be included from the Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies (CGCG, Zwicky et al. 1961-1968); all such galaxies in the CGCG are included in the UGC. The galaxies are numbered in order of their 1950.0 right ascension values. The catalog contains descriptions of the galaxies and their surrounding areas, plus conventional system classifications and position angles for flattened galaxies. Galaxy diameters on both the blue and red POSS prints are included and the classifications and descriptions are given in such a way as to provide as accurate an account as possible of the appearance of the galaxies on the prints. Only the data portion of the published UGC is included in the machine-readable version, notice. For additional details regarding the classifications, measurement of apparent magnitudes, and data content, the source reference should be consulted. This database table was first ingested by the HEASARC in September 2000 based on a machine-readable version of the UGC obtained from the ADC (ADC Catalog VII/26D). This latter version was a corrected and modified version of the original magnetic tape version of the UGC. A list of the types of changes and modifications made by the ADC is available at <a href="https://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/VII/26D/ReadMe">https://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/VII/26D/ReadMe</a>, while the list of the affected entries is available at <a href="https://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/VII/26D/errors.dat.gz">https://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/VII/26D/errors.dat.gz</a>. <p> The HEASARC last updated this database table in November 2021 upon reflection that the original catalog's coordinates were B1950 (instead of J1950, as originally assumed by the HEASARC). Due to the precision of the coordinates in this catalog, the difference is negligible. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/wblgalaxy
- Title:
- WBL Individual Galaxies Data Catalog (White et al. 1999)
- Short Name:
- WBL
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- 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 individual galaxies in the poor clusters which ere given in Table 3 of the published catalog, and includes redshifts for the individual galaxies and cross-references to other galaxy catalogs. The WBL table (q.v.) contains the entries for the clusters themselves (given in Table 2 of the published catalog). The WBLGALAXY table was created by the HEASARC in July 2002 based on CDS Catalog J/AJ/118/2014 (the file table3.dat). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .