VII/72 Catalog of Stellar Velocity Dispersions (Whitmore+ 1985)
A Catalog of Stellar Velocity Dispersions. I. Compilation and Standard Galaxies
Whitmore B.C., McElroy D.B., Tonry J.
<Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 59, 1 (1985)>
=1985ApJS...59....1W 1985ApJS...59....1W
ADC_Keywords: Spectroscopy ; Velocity dispersion ; Galaxies, rotation
Description:
A catalog of central stellar velocity dispersion measurements is
presented, current through 1984. The catalog includes 1096
measurements of 725 galaxies. A set of 51 standard galaxies is
defined which consists of galaxies with at least three reliable,
concordant measurements.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
adopted.dat 23 724 The catalogue of adopted velocity dispersions
sources.dat 115 1096 Source data
refs.dat 56 74 References
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See also:
VII/26 : Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC) (Nilson 1973)
VII/112 : RC2 Catalogue (de Vaucouleurs+ 1976)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: adopted.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 12 A12 --- Galaxy Galaxy name
13- 17 A5 --- MType Morphological type
18 A1 --- r_MType *[*] Reference of MType
21- 23 I3 km/s VelDisp Adopted velocity dispersion
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Note on r_MType:
* = from UGC (Nilson 1973, Uppsala Ann. 6, Cat. VII/26)
blank = from RC2 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1976, Cat. VII/112)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: sources.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 12 A12 --- Galaxy Galaxy name
13- 17 A5 --- MType Morphological type
18 A1 --- r_MType *[*] Reference of MType as above
20 A1 --- l_VelDisp Limit Flag on VelDisp
21- 23 I3 km/s VelDisp ? Original velocity dispersion
25- 27 I3 km/s e_VelDisp ? Quoted mean error on VelDisp
33 I1 --- ExtProf *[0/2] Indicator measured extd vel dispersion
34 A1 --- n_FWHM *[-] unit flag FWHM
35- 39 F5.1 --- FWHM ? of the narrowest comparison line
(in km/s or A/mm depending on n_FWHM)
42- 45 F4.1 arcsec dim1 ]0/16]? Slit width
48- 51 F4.1 arcsec dim2 ]0/36]? Slit length
53- 54 I2 --- TelSite [1/28]? Code related to the instrument
(place and telescope)
56- 57 I2 --- Det [1/16]? Code related to the detector and
technique
59- 62 I4 pix Pixels [180/2048]? Number of pixels in spectra
64- 67 I4 0.1nm lambda1 [3300/8450]? Lower wavelength range
69- 72 I4 0.1nm lambda2 [4200/8750]? Upper wavelength range
74- 78 A5 --- r_Galaxy Source of the data
84- 85 I2 --- Ttype [-7/6]? Numerical galaxy class
(de Vaucouleurs index)
91- 95 I5 km/s Vel ? Radial velocity of the Galaxy
101-105 F5.2 mag Mag ? Magnitude of the galaxy
106 A1 --- r_Mag *[*] Reference of the magnitude, as
for r_MType
109-115 A7 --- Other Other designation of the galaxy
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Note on r_MType, r_Mag:
* = from UGC (Nilson 1973, Uppsala Ann. 6, Cat. VII/26)
blank = from RC2 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1976, Cat. VII/112)
Note on ExtProf:
Indicator
1 - the authors measured extented velocity dispersion profiles
0 - the authors did not measure extended velocity disp profiles
2 - only a few measurements in the outer regions are available
Note on n_FWHM:
Indicator of unit in which FWHM is expressed:
- = for 0.1nm/mm
blank = for km/s
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: refs.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 5 A5 --- Ref Reference code
8- 9 A2 --- in [in ] indicates a reference quoted
11- 29 A19 --- BibCode 19-digit bibcode
31- 58 A28 --- Note Authors when necessary
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History:
* 10-Jun-1994: First documentation prepared at CDS
* 13-May-1997: Documentation standardized
* 03-Aug-2004: List of references added at CDS
(End) Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 10-Jun-1994 ; Paul Kuin [ADC] 13-May-1997