J/ApJ/630/784 UBVR observations of nearby galaxies (Taylor+, 2005)
UBVR and Hubble Space Telescope mid-ultraviolet and near-infrared surface
photometry and radial color gradients of late-type, irregular, and peculiar
galaxies.
Taylor V.A., Jansen R.A., Windhorst R.A., Odewahn S.C., Hibbard J.E.
<Astrophys. J., 630, 784-803 (2005)>
=2005ApJ...630..784T 2005ApJ...630..784T
ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, nearby ; Photometry, UBVRI
Keywords: galaxies: fundamental parameters - galaxies: interactions -
galaxies: irregular - galaxies: peculiar - galaxies: photometry -
galaxies: spiral
Abstract:
We introduce a data set of 142 mostly late-type spiral, irregular, and
peculiar (interacting or merging) nearby galaxies observed in UBVR at
the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), and we present an
analysis of their radial color gradients.
Description:
We obtained our ground-based observations at the VATT (Vatican
Advanced Technology Telescope) at Mount Graham International
Observatory (MGIO; Arizona) with the 2kx2k Direct Imager because of
its high sensitivity in the near-UV, which is critical for our
ultimate science goals. Observations were spread over nine runs
between 1999 April and 2002 April.
File Summary:
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table1.dat 114 568 Observed VATT galaxy list
table4.dat 204 138 VATT measured galaxy parameters
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See also:
J/AJ/100/1091 : UBR photometry of 39 elliptical galaxies (Peletier+ 1990)
J/AJ/107/135 : Colors in bulges of galaxies (Balcells+ 1994)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 3 I3 --- Seq Internal identification number
5- 14 A10 --- Name Galaxy name
16- 17 I2 h RAh Hour of Right Ascension (J2000)
19- 20 I2 min RAm Minute of Right Ascension (J2000)
22- 26 F5.2 s RAs Second of Right Ascension (J2000)
28 A1 --- DE- Sign of the Declination (J2000)
29- 30 I2 deg DEd Degree of Declination (J2000)
32- 33 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of Declination (J2000)
35- 38 F4.1 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of Declination (J2000)
40- 43 F4.1 --- TRC3 RC3 morphological classification
(Cat. VII/155)
45- 48 F4.1 --- TType Visual morphological classification
50 A1 --- Filt [UBVR] Filter used in the observation
52- 54 F3.1 --- NExp Number of images used in the stack
56- 61 F6.1 s TExp Average image exposure time
63- 67 F5.3 --- sec(z) Average air mass
69- 76 F8.3 --- Sky Median sky background level in ADU
78- 83 F6.3 --- e_Sky Single sky pixel uncertainty
85- 89 F5.2 mag/arcsec2 muSky Sky surface brightnesses
91- 95 F5.3 arcsec Seeing Average seeing estimate
97-101 F5.3 arcsec e_Seeing The 1σ error in Seeing
103-112 A10 "YYYY/MM/DD" ObsDate Date of the first deep stack image
114 A1 --- Phot? [yn] Photometric deep images? (1)
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Note (1): Photometric deep images flag, defined as follows:
y = Individual deep image was photometric;
n = deep image was calibrated with shorter photometric exposures.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 3 I3 --- Seq Internal identification number
5- 10 F6.2 arcsec D24 Isophotal diameter at R=24mag/arcsec2
12- 16 F5.2 arcsec ReA Angular effective half light R band
radius
18- 22 F5.2 kpc ReP ? Physical effective half light R band
radius (1)
24- 28 F5.3 --- b/a Axis ratio
30- 34 I5 km/s VGSR ? RC3 (Cat. VII/155) galactic
standard of rest velocity
36- 41 F6.3 mag Bmag Total B band apparent magnitude (2)
43- 47 F5.3 mag e_Bmag Error in Bmag (3)
49- 55 F7.3 mag BMAG ? Total B band absolute magnitude
57- 61 F5.3 mag e_BMAG ? Error in BMAG (4)
63- 68 F6.3 mag U-B Average total (U-B) color index
70- 74 F5.3 mag e_U-B Error in U-B (5)
76- 81 F6.3 mag B-V Average total (B-V) color index
83- 87 F5.3 mag e_B-V Error in B-V (5)
89- 94 F6.3 mag V-R Average total (V-R) color index
96-100 F5.3 mag e_V-R Error in V-R (5)
102-107 F6.3 mag/arcsec2 Bmu B band surface brightness within ReA
109-113 F5.3 mag/arcsec2 e_Bmu Error in Bmu
115-120 F6.3 mag/arcsec2 (U-B)mu Average (U-B) surface brightness
within ReA
122-126 F5.3 mag/arcsec2 e_(U-B)mu Error in (U-B)mu (5)
128-133 F6.3 mag/arcsec2 (B-V)mu Average (B-V) surface brightness
within ReA
135-139 F5.3 mag/arcsec2 e_(B-V)mu Error in (B-V)mu (5)
141-146 F6.3 mag/arcsec2 (V-R)mu Average (V-R) surface brightness
within ReA
148-152 F5.3 mag/arcsec2 e_(V-R)mu Error in (V-R)mu (5)
154-159 F6.3 mag/arcsec (U-R)grad ? The (U-R) color gradient (6)
161-165 F5.3 mag/arcsec e_(U-R)grad ? Error in (U-R)grad (7)
167-172 F6.3 mag/arcsec (U-B)grad ? The (U-B) color gradient (6)
174-178 F5.3 mag/arcsec e_(U-B)grad ? Error in (U-B)grad (7)
180-185 F6.3 mag/arcsec (B-V)grad ? The (B-V) color gradient (6)
187-191 F5.3 mag/arcsec e_(B-V)grad ? Error in (B-V)grad (7)
193-198 F6.3 mag/arcsec (V-R)grad ? The (V-R) color gradient (6)
200-204 F5.3 mag/arcsec e_(V-R)grad ? Error in (V-R)grad (7)
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Note (1): Using H0 = 71km/s/Mpc.
Note (2): Derived from extrapolating the surface brightness profile to infinity.
Note (3): Derived from the total signal-to-noise in the largest aperture
measured.
Note (4): Includes the uncertainty on H0 from WMAP measurements.
Note (5): Errors on the total and effective colors, (X-Y), are the quadratic
sum of the respective total X and Y magnitude errors.
Note (6): Outside of ReA and measured by finding the slope of the linear fit
to the color profile for all good points outside of ReA in units of
Δmag per ReA. A negative slope indicates the galaxy becomes
bluer with increasing radius, and a positive slope indicates that it
is gets redder outward.
Note (7): Error is the accidental error derived from Equation 1. The errors on
the color gradients were determined from the scatter of the fits.
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
(End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Marianne Brouty [CDS] 18-May-2006