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J/A+AS/126/3        CO and HI in interacting galaxies (Horellou+ 1997)
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CO and HI in a southern sample of interacting galaxies. I. The data
       Horellou C., Booth R.
      <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 126, 3 (1997)>
      =1997A&AS..126....3H      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Radio lines ; Galaxies, spectra ; H I data ; CO
Keywords: galaxies: interaction - galaxies: ISM - galaxies: evolution -
          radio lines: galaxies

Abstract:
    Using SEST, the Parkes antenna and the Australia Telescope Compact
    Array, we have made a survey of the ^12^CO(1-0) and HI emission of an
    optically-selected sample of =~60 southern interacting and merging
    galaxies. In this paper we present the data and determine global
    masses of neutral gas (in molecular and atomic form) for the observed
    galaxies. We have detected HI in 26 systems and found that
    these galaxies have less than 15% of their gas in molecular form.

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
table1.dat      83         75    Galaxy Characteristics
table3.dat      85         66    HI and CO observational results
fig3p1.ps       81       5609    Optical images, HI and CO spectra
fig3p2.ps       81      10946    Figure 3 continued
fig3p3.ps       81       5779    Figure 3 continued
fig3p4.ps       81      28946    Figure 3 continued
fig3p5.ps       81       5255    Figure 3 continued
fig3p6.ps       81      14320    Figure 3 continued
fig3p7.ps       81       7357    Figure 3 continued
fig3p8.ps       81       5632    Figure 3 continued
fig3p9.ps       81       4176    Figure 3 continued
fig3p10.ps      81       8982    Figure 3 continued
fig3p11.ps      81       5876    Figure 3 continued
fig3p12.ps      81       7130    Figure 3 continued
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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   Bytes Format Units      Label   Explanations
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   1-  6  A6    ---        Name    Source name
       7  A1    ---        Note    [a-g] Note about individual galaxies (1)
   9- 18  A10   ---      FileName  Name of postscript figure file containing
                                        this galaxy (in this directory)
  20- 31  A12   ---        Galaxy  Galaxy name (from ESO survey)
  33- 34  I2    h          RAh     Right Ascension 1950 (hours)
  36- 37  I2    min        RAm     Right Ascension 1950 (minutes)
  39- 42  F4.1  s          RAs     Right Ascension 1950 (seconds)
      44  A1    ---        DE-     Declination 1950 (sign)
  45- 46  I2    deg        DEd     Declination 1950 (degrees)
  48- 49  I2    arcmin     DEm     Declination 1950 (minutes)
  51- 52  I2    arcsec     DEs     Declination 1950 (seconds)
  55- 59  I5    km/s       Vhel    ? Heliocentric velocity
  61- 67  A7    ---        MType   Morphological Type
  70- 73  F4.2 [0.1arcmin] logD25  ? Diameter at 25mag/arcsec2 (log scale)
  75- 83  A9    ---      OtherName Other designation of the Galaxy
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Note (1):
  a : JB01   has an uncertainty in position of 30x30arcsec.
             NED gives also a radio velocity of 10079km/s
  b : JB06_2 has an uncertainty in position of 30x30arcsec
  c : JB14_2 other authors give Vhel=6321km/s
  d : JB29_1 has an uncertainty in position of 30x30arcsec
  e : JB33   has an uncertainty in position of 9x9arcsec
  f : JB40   has an uncertainty in position of 5x5arcsec
  g : JB56   HI line at Vhel=2600km/s towards JB56
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   2-  5  A4    ---      HIname    Source name
       8  A1    ---      Note      [abdn] Note on source (1)
       9  A1    ---      posFlag   [*] Flag for uncertain (30x30") position
  11- 15  I5    km/s     vHI       ? HI velocity
  18- 20  I3    km/s     DvHI      ? HI velocity width
      22  A1    ---      l_SHI     Limit flag on SHI
  23- 26  F4.1  Jy.km/s  SHI       ? Integrated HI flux
  28- 30  F3.1  Jy.km/s  e_SHI     ? Mean error on HI flux
      32  A1    ---      l_M(HI)   Limit flag on M(HI)
  33- 36  F4.1 10+9solMass M(HI)   ? Derived HI mass
  39- 44  A6    ---      Intrum    Instrument used (Parkes or Australian
                                        Telescope Compact Array)
  49- 54  A6    ---      Name      Source name, as in table1
      55  A1    ---      Note(CO)  [n] 'n' if not observed
  56- 60  I5    km/s     vCO       ? CO velocity, observed at SEST telescope
                                        at ESO-La Silla.
  63- 65  I3    km/s     DvCO      ? CO velocity width
      67  A1    ---      l_SCO     Limit flag on SCO
  68- 71  F4.2  K.km/s   SCO       ? Integrated antenna temperature
  73- 76  F4.2  K.km/s   e_SCO     ? Mean error on SCO
      80  A1    ---      l_M(H2)   [*<] Limit flag on M(H2) ('*' stands
                                        for tentative value)
  81- 85  F5.1 10+8solMass M(H2)   ? Mass of H2 derived from CO data.
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Note (1): the notes are
      a = pointing made toward a position between galaxies JB11_1 and JB11_2
      b = sources JB57 and JB58 observed together in HI
      d = sources not separated in HI, but are separated in CO
      n = not observed in HI
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Description of Figures (*.ps files):
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Column 1: contour and grey-scale pictures of the galaxies (ESO Digitized
           Sky Survey). North is to the top, west to the right.
           The scales on the axes are in arcsec.
Column 2: HI spectra. The spectral resolution is 6.6km/s. The units are km/s
           on the X axis (radial velocities in the radio convention) and
           Jy on the Y axis.
Column 3: CO spectra. The spectral resolution is 14.6km/s. The units are km/s
           on the X axis (radial velocities in the radio convention) and
           K on the Y axis (T_A_^*^).
When the two galaxies of a pair were observed, the two spectra are shown and
the name of the observed galaxy is given close to the corresponding spectrum.
The lower spectrum refers to the most southern galaxy on the
optical image, the upper one to the other.
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(End)                                         Patricia Bauer [CDS]   02-May-1997

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