J/A+AS/117/369      Galaxies in the "zone of avoidance". III. (Lercher+, 1996)

Penetrating the 'zone of avoidance': III. A survey for obscured galaxies in the region 120<l<130,-10<b<+10 Lercher G., Kerber F., Weinberger R. <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 117, 369 (1996)> =1996A&AS..117..369L 1996A&AS..117..369L (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Cross identifications Keywords: catalogs - (ISM): dust, extinction - Galaxy: structure - galaxies: general - galaxies: clusters of Description: As the third part in a series of papers on galaxies in the "zone of avoidance" (ZOA) of the Milky Way we present a compilation of 1161 galaxies discovered during a systematic search on Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) red-sensitive prints. The region searched comprises 200 square degrees, at 120deg≤l≤130deg, -10deg≤b≤+10deg. In addition to galactic, equatorial and rectangular coordinates, we list maximum and minimum optical diameters derived from both the red- and blue-sensitive prints, could assign a morphological type to some of the objects and made cross-checks with the IRAS PSC and several radio catalogues. A test for completeness suggests, that our catalogue should be complete down to a limiting galaxy-diameter of 0.35'. An asymmetric distribution of the galaxies with respect to the galactic equator was found and is discussed by comparing it with the locations of optically visible dust clouds and/or the distribution of IR-emitting dust material. A comparison between the distribution of the galaxies and the 100µ IRAS intensity maps led to the identification of four possible clusterings. As a byproduct of our galaxy search, two new planetary nebulae, nebulous stars at the position of a strong cold IRAS point source, and a nearby dwarf irregular galaxy could be detected. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table2 219 1161 optically detected galaxies in the region 120<l<130, -10<b<+10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: J/A+AS/110/269 : Part I., |b|=5 J/A+AS/117/1 : Part II, 180<l<240 J/A+AS/126/247 : Part IV, 130<l<180, |b|<5 J/A+AS/127/101 : Part V, 90<l<110, |b|<10 Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 14 A14 --- Name Object designation based on galactic position 16 I1 h RAh Right ascension (1950.0) 18- 19 I2 min RAm Right ascension (1950.0) 21- 24 F4.1 s RAs Right ascension (1950.0) 27- 28 I2 deg DEd Declination (1950.0) 30- 31 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (1950.0) 33- 34 I2 arcsec DEs Declination (1950.0) 38 I1 h RAh2000 Right ascension (2000.0) 40- 41 I2 min RAm2000 Right ascension (2000.0) 43- 46 F4.1 s RAs2000 Right ascension (2000.0) 49- 50 I2 deg DEd2000 Declination (2000.0) 52- 53 I2 arcmin DEm2000 Declination (2000.0) 55- 56 I2 arcsec DEs2000 Declination (2000.0) 60- 63 A4 --- POSS POSS-I print label 67- 71 F5.1 mm Xpos Cartesian x-coordinate on POSS 73- 77 F5.1 mm Ypos Cartesian y-coordinate on POSS 81- 84 F4.2 arcmin DmajE Maximum diameter on POSS-E 86- 89 F4.2 arcmin DminE Minimum diameter on POSS-E 91- 94 F4.2 arcmin DmajEc []? Maximum diameter of core on POSS-E 96- 99 F4.2 arcmin DminEc []? Minimum diameter of core on POSS-E 102-105 F4.2 arcmin DmajO []? Maximum diameter on POSS-O 107-110 F4.2 arcmin DminO []? Minimum diameter on POSS-O 112-115 F4.2 arcmin DmajOc []? Maximum diameter of core on POSS-O 117-120 F4.2 arcmin DminOc []? Minimum diameter of core on POSS-O 124-125 A2 --- MType Morphological type 127-174 A48 --- Ident Cross identifications -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Courtesy: G. Lercher
(End) Patricia Bauer [CDS] 1996-Feb-01
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