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VII/74A             Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies    (Arp 1966)
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Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
     Arp H.C.
    <Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 14, 1 (Table 2) (1966)>
    =1966ApJS...14....1A
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ADC_Keywords: Atlases ; Galaxy catalogs

Description:
    This electronic version of Arp's 1966 "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies"
    contains only its Table 2 published in the Astrophysical Journal
    Supplement.


File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
table2.dat      90        338    Redshifts for galaxies ordered by RA
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  2  I2     h       RAh       Right Ascension 1970 (hours)
   4-  7  F4.1   min     RAm       Right Ascension 1970 (minutes)
       8  A1     ---     pPos      [)] A closing parenthesis when the original
                                       position is parenthesized (APG 238)
      12  A1     ---     DE-       Declination 1970 (sign)
  13- 14  I2     deg     DEd       Declination 1970 (degrees)
  16- 17  I2     arcmin  DEm       Declination 1970 (minutes)
  21- 23  I3     ---     APG       [1/338] Arp's number
  28- 43  A16    ---     Name      Designation
  46- 90  A45    ---     Redshifts Values of the redshift with references
                                      detailed below
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References:
   1: Humason M.L., Mayall N.U., Sandage A.R., =1956AJ.....61...97H
   4: de Vaucouleurs G., de Vaucouleurs A., 1964, Ref. Cat. of Bright
         Galaxies (Univ. Texas Press, Austin) (RC1)
      Vorontsov-Velyaminov B.A., Arkhipova V.P., 1964
         "Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies", Moscow
         <CDS Catalogue: VII/62A>
  13: Burbidge E.M., Burbidge G.R., =1959ApJ...130...15B
  22: Burbidge E.M., Burbidge G.R., =1964ApJ...140.1307B
  23: Burbidge E.M., Burbidge G.R., =1964ApJ...140.1617B

See also:
  VII/170 : "Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations",
          by Arp H.C. and Madore B.F., 1987, Cambridge Univ. Press

  VII/192 :  Arp's Peculiar Galaxies (Webb 1996) 

Historical Notes:
 * March 1986: Catalogue prepared at CDS
 * 14-Sep-1995 (version A): documentation added at CDS, a few errors in
   Arp number corrected.  In particular, Table 2 indicates a wrong number 
   for galaxy at 02h37.4 +18 15 which is No.258 (instead of No.254)
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(End)                                     Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]  14-Sep-1995

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