J/MNRAS/277/125 Visual search for galaxies in the Galactic Plane (Hau+ 1995)
Visual search for galaxies near the northern crossing of the
Supergalactic Plane by the Milky Way.
Hau G.K.T., Ferguson H.C., Lahav O., Lynden-Bell D.
<Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 277, 125 (1995)>
=1995MNRAS.277..125H 1995MNRAS.277..125H (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs
Keywords: catalogues - dust, extinction - galaxies: individual: Dwingeloo 1 -
Local Group - large-scale structure of universe - infrared: galaxies
Description:
We have visually examined 12 Palomar red plates for galaxies at low
Galactic latitude b, where the Supergalactic Plane (SGP) is crossed by
the Galactic Plane (GP), at Galactic longitude l∼135deg. The catalogue
consists of 2575 galaxy candidates, of which 462 have major axis
diameter d≥0.8arcmin (uncorrected for extinction). Galaxy candidates
can be identified down to |b|∼0deg. One of our galaxy candidates
(J24=Dwingeloo 1) has recently been discovered independently at 21cm
by Kraan-Korteweg et al. as a nearby galaxy. Comparisons with
structures seen in the IRAs and UGC catalogues are made. We compare
the success rate of identifying galaxies using the IRAS Point Source
Catalogue under different colour selection criteria. The criteria that
require both the 60- and 100-µm fluxes to be of high quality have
the highest probability of selecting a galaxy (with d≥0.6arcmin), but
at the expense of selecting a smaller number of galaxies in total.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table6a 100 2575 List of all 2575 galaxies in the survey
table6b 92 559 Comments of table6a
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See also:
VII/164 : The CfA redshift catalogue (ZCAT)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table6a
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 13 A13 --- Name Galaxy name
15- 16 I2 h RAh Right ascension (B1950)
18- 19 I2 min RAm Right ascension (B1950)
21- 24 F4.1 s RAs Right ascension (B1950)
26 A1 --- DE- Declination sign
27- 28 I2 deg DEd Declination (B1950)
30- 31 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (B1950)
33- 34 I2 arcsec DEs Declination (B1950)
36- 41 A6 --- Ident Identification label (1)
43- 49 A7 --- MType Morphological type
50- 53 F4.1 arcmin MajDiam Major axis diameter
55- 59 F5.2 Jy S60um ? IRAS 60µm flux
61- 64 F4.1 arcmin Diam ? UGC blue diameter (Nilson 1973, VII/26)
67- 70 I4 --- UGC ? UGC number VII/26
72- 75 F4.1 mag Bmag ? B magnitude as listed by Huchra ZCAT VII/164
77- 81 I5 km/s HRV ? Heliocentric radial velocity (2)
83- 84 I2 km/s e_HRV ? rms uncertainty on HRV
87- 88 I2 --- n_HRV ? [-1,1] Velocity flag (3)
90-104 A15 --- ZCAT Name as listed in column 1 of ZCAT VII/164
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Note (1): The character denotes the plate label (as in table1) and
the number denotes the position in the list of galaxies spotted on
that plate. Hence an identification 'A25' refers to the 25th galaxy
spotted on POSS plate E1241. Galaxies that are identified more than
once in the plate overlaps will have composite labels, hence a label
A37L59 means that the galaxy is spotted on POSS plate E1241 and E973.
Note (2): Velocity listed in the Huchra's ZCAT that was available to us in 1991
Note (3): the flag takes the values
1: velocity is specified in ZCAT
-1: velocity is measured but not available to the public
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table6b
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 6 A6 --- Ident Private identification
17- 91 A75 --- Text Text of comment
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Table1: Scanning order of the plates, the plate
numbers, the coordinates of the plate centres
and the private label
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Scan order Plate RA (1950) DE Label
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1 1241 2 44 04 66 24 02 A
2 1230 2 24 50 72 25 40 B
3 597 2 18 59 60 26 02 C
4 1245 2 00 19 54 27 41 D
5 907 2 22 14 48 26 06 E
6 931 2 05 52 42 27 09 F
7 1226 3 16 30 78 21 46 G
8 1617 2 38 43 54 24 42 H
9 865 3 34 19 72 17 56 I
10 968 3 03 27 60 22 29 J
11 845 2 56 30 48 22 19 K
12 973 3 36 40 66 18 48 L
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History:
* 01-Jul-1996: Copied from ftp://ftp.ast.cam.ac.uk/pub/gkth/zoa/zoacat.tar.gz
References:
Huchra J.P., 1991, ZCAT =CDS Cat. VII/164
Kraan-Korteweg R.C. et al., 1994, in Balkowski C., Kraan-Korteweg R.C., eds,
ASP Conf. Ser., Unveiling Large-Scale Structures behind the Milky Way.
Astron. Soc. Pac., San Francisco, p. 89
Nilson P. 1993, UCG =CDS Cat. VII/26
(End) Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 01-Jul-1996