J/A+A/387/1 DENIS galaxies behind the Milky Way (Vauglin+, 2002)
Serendipitous detection of galaxies behind the Milky Way from the DENIS survey.
Vauglin I., Rousseau J., Paturel G., Borsenberger J., Epchtein N.,
Fouque P., Kimeswenger S., Le Bertre T., Mamon G.A.
<Astron. Astrophys. 387, 1 (2002)>
=2002A&A...387....1V 2002A&A...387....1V
ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Galaxies, IR ; Photometry, infrared
Keywords: galaxies: general - infrared: galaxies -
large-scale structure of Universe - catalogs - surveys -
dust, extinction
Abstract:
A search has been undertaken at Lyon Observatory to identify, by eye,
galaxy candidates at galactic latitudes lower than ±15 degrees on
the DENIS J and K-band images. This paper presents a list of 2028
objects that were serendipitously detected throughout the DENIS
survey. Cross-identification with galaxy entries in the LEDA Database
has been performed. Comparison with the second release of the 2MASS
survey led to a satisfactory agreement of J band magnitudes
(std. dev.=0.3mag). The distribution of galaxy candidates along the
Galactic Plane shows a concentration near the galactic longitude
l=305deg. As a by product of this inspection of J and K images some
interesting galactic objects were found (star clusters and nebulae).
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
catalog.dat 138 2027 Preliminary list of 2025 galaxies (and 2 PN's)
visually detected in the region |b|<15°
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See also:
http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr : LEDA database
B/denis : The DENIS database (Epchtein+, 1999)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 16 A16 --- Name Right Ascension and Declination for 2000
(JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS)
19- 22 F4.1 mag Jmag ? Provisional J magnitudes
23 A1 --- u_Jmag Uncertainty flag on Jmag
24- 26 F3.1 mag e_Jmag ? rms uncertainty on Jmag
28- 32 F5.2 mag J-K ? J-K color index
34- 37 F4.2 [arcsec] logD ? log of diameter
39- 42 F4.2 --- log(a/b) ? log of axis ratio (major axis/minor axis)
44- 48 F5.1 deg PA ? Position angle from N to E
50- 57 A8 --- MType Provisional estimate of the morphological
type (1)
63- 73 A11 --- PGC PGC number from LEDA
75- 89 A15 --- Name1 Alternate Names from LEDA (2)
91-106 A16 --- Name2 Alternate Names from LEDA (2)
107-121 A15 --- Name3 Alternate Names from LEDA (2)
123-138 A16 --- Name4 Alternate Names from LEDA (2)
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Note (1): Morphological type:
E: elliptical
S: spiral
M: multiple
B: barred
LSB: low surface brightness
SB: barred spiral
A: very obscured, star, star superimposed
?: uncertainty mark
??: very uncertain
PN: Planetary nebulae
When the object is made of two galaxies, it can appear as, e.g., E+S
Note (2): Alternate Names:
PGC: LEDA database, Paturel et al., 1989, Cat. VII/119
ESO: Lauberts & Valentijn, 1989, Cat. VII/115
IRAS: IRAS PSC, Cat. II/125
CGMW: Saito, 1990, Cat. VII/209)
RKK: Kraan-Korteweg, 1995, Cat. J/A+A/297/617,
2000, Cat. J/A+AS/141/123)
WKK: Woudt et al., 1999. Cat. J/A+A/352/39)
ZOAG: Saurer et al., 1997, Cat. J/A+AS/126/247
Seeberger et al. 1996, Cat. J/A+AS/117/1,
1998, Cat. J/A+AS/127/101
Weinberger et al., 1980A&AS...40..123W 1980A&AS...40..123W,
1999, Cat. J/A+AS/137/293)
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Acknowledgements: Georges Paturel
History:
* 16-Sep-2002: The complete ZOAG name of J072456.8-093937 was added
(End) Patricia Bauer [CDS] 11-May-2002