J/AJ/90/1681 The Virgo Cluster Catalog (VCC) (Binggeli+, 1985)
Studies of the Virgo cluster. II. A catalog of 2096 galaxies in the Virgo
cluster area.
Binggeli B., Sandage A., Tammann G.A.
<Astron. J. 90, 1681 (1985)>
=1985AJ.....90.1681B 1985AJ.....90.1681B
ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Clusters, galaxy ; Radial velocities
Description:
The present catalog of 2096 galaxies within an area of about
140°2 approximately centered on the Virgo cluster should be an
essentially complete listing of all certain and possible cluster
members, independent of morphological type. Cluster membership is
essentially decided by galaxy morphology; for giants and the rare
class of high surface brightness dwarfs, membership rests on velocity
data. While 1277 of the catalog entries are considered members of the
Virgo cluster, 574 are possible members and 245 appear to be
background Zwicky galaxies.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
vcc.dat 69 2096 Catalog of 2096 galaxies in the Virgo cluster area
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See also:
VII/48 : Middle UV phot. in Virgo cluster galaxies (Cornett+, 1981-82)
J/A+AS/41/421 : 1.4GHz survey in the Virgo region (Kotanyi 1980)
J/A+AS/106/199 : B-band photometry in Fornax and Virgo (Caon+ 1994)
J/A+AS/118/441 : Virgo + Fornax clusters galaxies UBVRI data (Schroeder+ 1996)
J/A+AS/121/507 : Near-IR surface photometry of Virgo galaxies (Boselli+ 1997)
J/A+AS/127/367 : Virgo Photometry Catalogue (VPC) (Young+ 1998)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: vcc.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 2 I2 h RAh Right ascension (B1950)
4- 5 I2 min RAm Right ascension (B1950)
7- 10 F4.1 s RAs Right ascension (B1950)
12 A1 --- DE- Declination sign(B1950)
13- 14 I2 deg DEd Declination(B1950)
16- 17 I2 arcmin DEm Declination(B1950)
19- 20 I2 arcsec DEs Declination(B1950)
22- 25 I4 --- VCC VCC number
27 A1 --- Memb [MB-] Membership flag (1)
29- 48 A20 --- MType Morphological type in the extended Hubble
system
50- 54 F5.2 mag BT Total apparent blue magnitude
56- 60 I5 km/s HRV ?=0 Heliocentric velocity
62- 69 A8 --- ID Other name (2)
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Note (1): Virgo cluster membership status of the galaxy:
M: cluster member
B: Background
-: possible cluster member
Note (2): Other name:
(R) NNN = GRDG +NN N, i.e. (R) 148 = GRDG +14 8,
(Reaves, 1956AJ.....61...69R 1956AJ.....61...69R, 1962PASP...74..392R 1962PASP...74..392R and
1983ApJS...53..375R 1983ApJS...53..375R)
(Z) NNN = ZW N NN, i.e. (Z) 265 = ZW II 65)
BB 18 = A3 18 (Barbieri & Benvenuti, 1974A&AS...13..269B 1974A&AS...13..269B)
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History: Copied at http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~fp6m-kud/extras.htm#vcc
(End) Patricia Bauer [CDS] 20-Jun-2002