J/A+A/467/1025 JHK photometry of Fornax red giant branch (Gullieuszik+, 2007)
Near-infrared observations of the Fornax dwarf galaxy. I. The red giant branch.
Gullieuszik M., Held E.V., Rizzi L., Saviane I., Momany Y., Ortolani S.
<Astron. Astrophys. 467, 1025 (2007)>
=2007A&A...467.1025G 2007A&A...467.1025G
ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, nearby ; Photometry, CCD ; Photometry, infrared ;
Stars, giant
Keywords: galaxies: dwarf - galaxies: individual: Fornax - Local Group -
galaxies: stellar content
Abstract:
We present a study of the evolved stellar populations in the dwarf
spheroidal galaxy Fornax based on wide-area near-infrared
observations, aimed at obtaining new independent estimates of its
distance and metallicity distribution. Assessing the reliability of
near-infrared methods is most important in view of future space- and
ground-based deep near-infrared imaging of resolved stellar systems.
Description:
The catalogues of the upper red giant branch stars in Fornax dwarf
Spheroidal galaxy are obtained from ground-based SOFI@NTT
observations. The shallow catalogue is obtained from a mosaic of 16
SOFI fields and covers an area of 18.5x18.5arcmin. The deep catalogue
covers an area of 4.5x4.5arcmin.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table2.dat 52 11377 JHK shallow photometry
table3.dat 52 1894 JHK deep photometry
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See also:
J/A+A/459/423 : VI and [Fe/H] of Fornax dSph RGB stars (Battaglia+, 2006)
J/MNRAS/344/188 : BVI photometry in Fornax cluster galaxies (Karick+, 2003)
J/PASP/110/533 : BR photometry of Fornax bright stars (Stetson+ 1998)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat table3.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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2- 6 I5 --- [GHR2007] Identification number (1)
9- 10 I2 h RAh Hour of right ascension (J2000)
12- 13 I2 min RAm Minute of right ascension (J2000)
15- 19 F5.2 s RAs Second of right ascension (J2000)
21 A1 --- DE- Sign of the declination (J2000)
22- 23 I2 deg DEd Degree of declination (J2000)
25- 26 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of declination (J2000)
28- 31 F4.1 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of declination (J2000)
33- 38 F6.3 mag Jmag ?=99.999 Johnson J band magnitude
40- 45 F6.3 mag Hmag ?=99.999 Johnson H band magnitude
47- 52 F6.3 mag Kmag ?=99.999 Johnson K band magnitude
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Note (1): Simbad nomenclature:
[GHR2007] Shallow NNNNN in table2
[GHR2007] Deep NNNN in table3
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Acknowledgements:
Marco Gullieuszik, marco.gullieuszik(at)oapd.inaf.it
History:
* 23-Apr-2007: Original version
* 03-Aug-2007: Corrected coordinates given by the author (Marco Gullieuszik).
The original version can be retrieved in the "v00" subdirectory.
(End) Patricia Vannier [CDS] 23-Apr-2007