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J/AJ/122/714     VR photometry of Century Survey galaxies    (Brown+, 2001)
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V- and R-band galaxy luminosity functions and low surface brightness galaxies
 in the Century Survey.
    Brown W.R., Geller M.J., Fabricant D.G., Kurtz M.J.
   <Astron. J. 122, 714 (2001)>
   =2001AJ....122..714B
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ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, photometry ; Photometry, CCD
Keywords: cosmology: observations - galaxies: fundamental parameters -
          galaxies: luminosity function, mass function - galaxies: photometry -
          large-scale structure of universe

Abstract:
    We use 64{deg}^2^ of deep V and R CCD images to measure the local V-
    and R-band luminosity functions of galaxies. The V_0_<16.7 and
    R_0_<16.2 redshift samples contain 1255 and 1251 galaxies and are
    98.1% and 98.2% complete, respectively.

File Summary:
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 FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe            80        .   This file
table3.dat        76     1295   Century Survey CCD Photometry
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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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   1-  6  A6    ---     ID        Galaxy identification (1)
       8  A1    ---   f_ID        [c] Flag on ID (2)
  10- 11  I2    h       RAh       Right Ascension (J2000)
  13- 14  I2    min     RAm       Right Ascension (J2000)
  16- 20  F5.2  s       RAs       Right Ascension (J2000)
      22  A1    ---     DE-       Declination sign (J2000)
  23- 24  I2    deg     DEd       Declination (J2000)
  26- 27  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination (J2000)
  29- 32  F4.1  arcsec  DEs       Declination (J2000)
  35- 39  F5.2  mag     Rmag      The measured Kron Cousins R band magnitude
  41- 44  F4.2  mag   e_Rmag      Uncertainty in Rmag (3)
  47- 51  F5.2  mag     Vmag      The measured Johnson V band magnitude
  53- 56  F4.2  mag   e_Vmag      Uncertainty in Vmag (3)
  59- 63  F5.3  mag     E(B-V)    The E(B-V) extinction value from
                                   Schlegel et al. (1998ApJ...500..525S)
  65- 69  F5.2  mag     kR        The R band k correction (4)
  71- 75  F5.2  mag     kV        The V band k correction (4)
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Note (1): IDs under 3000 are galaxies listed in the original Century Survey
          (Geller et al., 1997AJ....114.2205G) photographic catalog.
Note (2): c: LSB galaxy with central surface brightness {mu}_V(0)_0_>21.2
           and/or {mu}_R(0)_0_>20.8mag/arcsec^2^.
Note (3): Errors are a sum in quadrature of the zero-point error and the
          measurement error.
Note (4): Values interpolated from Poggianti (1997, Cat. <J/A+AS/122/399>) for
           types E, Sa, and Sc and Frei & Gunn (1994AJ....108.1476F) for type
           Im for the Kron Cousins R and Johnson V filters.
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History:
    From electronic version of the journal
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(End)                    Greg Schwarz [AAS], Patricia Bauer [CDS]    12-Nov-2001

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