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1. Candidate Galaxies Behind the Milky Way
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 .
2. CatalogofGalaxiesObservedbytheEinsteinObservatoryIPC&HRI
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/eingalcat
Title:
CatalogofGalaxiesObservedbytheEinsteinObservatoryIPC&HRI
Short Name:
Einstein/Gal
Date:
10 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
This is a catalog of galaxies observed in the X-ray band with the Einstein Observatory imaging instruments, the Imaging Proportional Counter (IPC) and the High Resolution Imager (HRI). The catalog comprises 716 observations of 493 galaxies, including those that were targets of pointed observations, and galaxies from the Revised Shapley-Ames (RSA) Catalog of Bright Galaxies and the Second Revised Catalog (RC2) Catalog of Bright Galaxies that were serendipitously included in Einstein fields, plus X-ray data on 4 other galaxies (LMC, SMC, M 31 = NGC 224, and M 32 = NGC 221) taken from the literature, for a total of 720 entries. A total of 450 of these galaxies were imaged well within the instrumental fields, resulting in 238 detections and 212 3-sigma upper limits. The other galaxies were either at the edge of the visible field of view or were confused with other X-ray sources. This database was created by the HEASARC in January 2002 based on CDS Catalog J/ApJS/80/531, tables gxatlas.dat and gxfluxes.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
3. CfA Redshift Catalog (June 1995 Version)
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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 .
4. CfA Redshift Survey: South Galactic Cap Data
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 .
5. Chandra ACIS Survey for X-Ray AGN in Nearby Galaxies
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/chansngcat
Title:
Chandra ACIS Survey for X-Ray AGN in Nearby Galaxies
Short Name:
CHANSNGCAT
Date:
10 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The authors searched the public archive of the Chandra X-ray Observatory as of 2016 March and assembled a sample of 719 galaxies within 50 Mpc with available Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer observations. By cross-correlation with the optical or near-infrared nuclei of these galaxies, 314 of them are identified to have an X-ray active galactic nucleus (AGN). The majority of them are low-luminosity AGNs and are unlikely X-ray binaries based upon their spatial distribution and luminosity functions. The AGN fraction is around 60% for elliptical galaxies and early-type spirals, but drops to roughly 20% for Sc and later types, consistent with previous findings in the optical. However, the X-ray survey is more powerful in finding weak AGNs, especially from regions with active star formation that may mask the optical AGN signature. For example, 31% of the H II nuclei are found to harbor an X-ray AGN. For most objects, a single power-law model subject to interstellar absorption is adequate to fit the spectrum, and the typical photon index is found to be around 1.8. For galaxies with a non-detection, their stacked Chandra image shows an X-ray excess with a luminosity of a few times 10<sup>37</sup> erg/s on average around the nuclear region, possibly composed of faint X-ray binaries. This paper reports on the technique and results of the survey; in-depth analysis and discussion of the results were to be reported in forthcoming papers, e.g., She et al. (2017, ApJ, 842, 131). The sample was assembled based on Chandra/ACIS observations that were publicly available as of 2016 March. The authors first generated a full list of ACIS observations, and then searched in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) for galaxies within 50 Mpc whose nuclear positions were less than 8 arcminutes from the aim point of any Chandra observation. The adopted distances were taken from NED, in the following order of priority: surface brightness fluctuations, Cepheid variables, tip of the red giant branch, Type Ia supernovae, the fundamental plane, Faber-Jackson relation, Tully-Fisher relation. If more than one reference is available for the distance by the same means, the latest one is selected, unless otherwise specified. Whenever possible, the authors obtain positions of the galaxy nuclei based on measurements from near-infrared images, which suffer from less obscuration by dust or confusion from young star-forming regions. Most of the data come from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) extended source catalog (Skrutskie et al. 2006, AJ, 131, 1163), or NED otherwise. In a few cases, the NED positions come from radio observations. The authors discarded galaxies whose nuclear positions in NED were obtained from X-ray observations. This table was created by the HEASARC in September 2017 based upon the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/835/223">CDS Catalog J/ApJ/835/223</a> files table1.dat, table2.dat and table4.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
6. 6dFGS Galaxy Survey Final Redshift Release Catalog
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 .
7. Einstein Survey of Optically Selected Galaxies
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/einopslgal
Title:
Einstein Survey of Optically Selected Galaxies
Short Name:
Einstein/OGal
Date:
10 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The Einstein Survey of Optically Selected Galaxies contains the results of a complete Einstein Imaging Proportional Counter (IPC) X-ray survey of optically-selected galaxies from the Shapley-Ames (S-A) Catalog (CDS Catalog <VII/112>), the Uppsala General Catalog (UGC, CDS Catalog <VII/26>) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Catalog (CDS Catalog <VII/115>). Well-defined optical criteria were used to select the galaxies, and X-ray fluxes were measured at the optically-defined positions. The result is a comprehensive list of X-ray detection and upper limit measurements for 1018 galaxies. Of these, 827 galaxies have either independent distance estimates or radial velocities. Associated optical, redshift, and distance data have been assembled for these galaxies, and their distances come from a combination of directly predicted distances and those predicted from the Faber-Burstein Great Attractor/Virgocentric infall model. The accuracy of the X-ray fluxes has been checked in three different ways; all are consistent with the derived X-ray fluxes being of <= 0.1 dex accuracy. In particular, there is agreement with previously published X-ray fluxes for galaxies in common with a 1991 study by Roberts et al. (1991ApJS...75..751R) and a 1992 study by Fabbiano et al. (1992ApJS...80..531F, also available at the HEASARC as a database table called EINGALCAT). This database was created at the HEASARC in May 2002 based on the ADC/CDS Catalog J/ApJS/111/163 and is derived from Tables 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, and 14 of the published paper. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
8. ESO-Uppsala ESO(B) Survey
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 .
9. First Byurakan Survey (Markarian) Catalog of UV-Excess Galaxies
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 .
10. FIRST Catalog of FR II Radio Galaxies
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/friicat
Title:
FIRST Catalog of FR II Radio Galaxies
Short Name:
FRIICAT
Date:
10 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
This table contains a catalog of 123 Fanaroff and Riley class II edge-brightened radio galaxies (FR IIs), called FRIICAT, that has been selected from a published sample obtained by combining observations from the NVSS, FIRST, and SDSS surveys. The catalog includes sources with redshift <=0.15, an edge-brightened radio morphology, and those with at least one of the emission peaks located at a radius r larger than 30 kpc from the center of the host. The radio luminosity at 1.4 GHz of the FRIICAT sources covers the range L<sub>1.4</sub> ~ 10<sup>39.5</sup> - 10<sup>42.5</sup> erg/s. The FRIICAT catalog has 90% of low- and 10% of high-excitation galaxies (LEGs and HEGs), respectively. The properties of these two classes are significantly different. The FRIICAT LEGs are mostly luminous (-20 >~ M<sub>r</sub> >~ -24), red early-type galaxies with black hole masses in the range 10<sup>8</sup> M<sub>sun</sub> <~ M<sub>BH</sub> <~ 10<sup>9</sup> M_sun_; they are essentially indistinguishable from the FR Is belonging to the FRICAT sample (Capetti et al. 2017, A&A, 598, A49: also available as a HEASARC table). The HEG FR IIs are associated with optically bluer and mid-IR redder hosts than the LEG FR IIs and to galaxies and black holes that are smaller, on average, by a factor of ~2. FR IIs have a factor of ~3 higher average radio luminosity than FR Is. Nonetheless, most (~90%) of the selected FR IIs have a radio power that is lower, by as much as a factor of ~100, than the transition value between FR Is and FR IIs found in the 3C sample. The correspondence between the morphological classification of FR I and FR II and the separation in radio power disappears when including sources selected at low radio flux thresholds, which is in line with previous results. In conclusion, a radio source produced by a low-power jet can be edge brightened or edge darkened, and the outcome is not related to differences in the optical properties of the host galaxy. The authors searched for FR II radio galaxies in the sample of 18,286 radio sources built by Best & Heckman (2012, MNRAS, 421, 1569) by limiting their search to the subsample of objects in which, according to these latter authors, the radio emission is produced by an active nucleus. They cross-matched the optical spectroscopic catalogs produced by the group from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and Johns Hopkins University (Brinchmann et al. 2004, MNRAS, 351, 1151; Tremonti et al. 2004, ApJ, 613, 898) based on data from the Data Release 7 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (DR7/SDSS; Abazajian et al. 2009, ApJS, 182, 543) with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory Very Large Array Sky Survey (NVSS; Condon et al. 1998, AJ, 115, 1693, <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VIII/65">CDS Cat. VIII/65</a>) and the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty centimeters survey (FIRST; Becker et al. 1995, ApJ, 450, 559; Helfand et al. 2015, ApJ, 801, 26, <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VIII/92">CDS Cat. VIII/92</a>) adopting a radio flux density limit of 5 mJy in the NVSS. The authors focused on those sources with redshift z < 0.15. The majority (108) of the selected FR IIs are classified as LEG, but there are also 14 HEG and just one source that cannot be classified spectroscopically because of the lack of emission lines, namely SDSS J144625.13+214209.8. Throughout this study, the authors adopted a cosmology with H<sub>0</sub> = 67.8 km s<sup>-1</sup> Mpc<sup>-1</sup>, Omega<sub>M</sub> = 0.308, and Omega<sub>Lambda</sub> = 0.692 (Planck Collaboration XIII 2016, A&A, 594, A13). This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2017 based upon the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/601/A81">CDS Catalog J/A+A/601/A81</a> file table1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .