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VII/77 Isolated Pairs of Galaxies in Northern Hemisphere (Karachentsev 1972)
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Catalogue of Isolated Pairs of Galaxies in the Northern Hemisphere
Karachentsev I.D.
<Publ. of the Special Astrophy. Observatory of USSR AS, No. 7 (1972)>
=1972SoSAO...7....1K
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ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Morphology
Description:
The catalog is a compilation of observational data for 603 isolated
pairs of galaxies with component magnitudes brighter than 15.7 and
north of declination -3 degrees. The catalog includes pair numbers and
component letters, coordinates, apparent magnitudes, radial
velocities, major axes and eccentricities, Hubble classifications,
spectral types, and distances between components.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
data.dat 70 1206 Catalog Data
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: data.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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3- 5 I3 --- ID *[1/603]+= Current number of the pair
6 A1 --- m_ID *[AB] A or B for the components
9- 10 I2 h RAh Right Ascension 1950 (hours)
12- 15 F4.1 min RAm Right Ascension 1950 (minutes)
18 A1 --- DE- Declination 1950 (sign)
19- 20 I2 deg DEd Declination 1950 (degrees)
22- 23 I2 arcmin DEm Declination 1950 (minutes)
26- 29 F4.1 mag mag [,15.7]? Apparent magnitude
32- 36 I5 km/s RV *[0,20000]? Radial velocity
39- 41 I3 km/s e_RV []? Mean square error on RV
44 I1 --- r_RV *[1/6]? Source of RV
46- 49 F4.1 arcmin MajDiam Major axis
52- 55 F4.2 --- aRatio [0/1] Minor-to-major axis ratio
58- 59 A2 --- MType *Morphological type in Hubble's classification
62- 64 A3 --- Sp *Spectral type
66- 70 F5.2 arcmin Sep Distance between components (min. of arc)
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Note on ID:
Running number of the pairs in this catalog;
named K72 in SIMBAD data-base
Note on m_ID:
Indicates to which component of the pair the data refer. This is
always either A or B.
Note on RV:
Radial velocity corrected for the Sun's motion
Note on r_RV:
Sources of radial velocities are:
=1= Karachentsev I.D., 1980ApJS...44..137K
Karachentsev I.D., 1981, Sov. Astron. Letters 7, 76;
Karachentsev I.D., 1983, Sov. Astron. Letters 9, 67
=2= White S.D., Huchra J., Latham D., Davis M., 1983MNRAS.203..701W
=3= Tifft W.G., 1982ApJS...50..319T
=4= Karachentsev I.D., Sargent W.L.W., Zimmermann B., 1979Afz....15...25K
Karachentsev I.D., Pronik V.I., Chuvaev K.K., 1975A&A....41..375K
Karachentsev I.D., Pronik V.I., Chuvaev K.K., 1976A&A....51..185K
=5= Rood H.J., 1983, "A catalogue of Galaxy Redshifts";
de Vaucouleurs G., de Vaucouleur A, RC2 catalogue <VII/112>
=6= Huchra J., Davis M., Latham D., Tonry J., 1983ApJS...52...89H
Gregory S.A., 1975ApJ...199....1G
Khachikjan E., 1973, Astrofiz. 9, 157 (1973Afz.....9..157K)
Note on MType:
Hubble types have been chosen as follows:
'E ' : all ellipticals
'S0' : just Hubble S0 type
'Sx' , x=a,b,c: includes SBx
'Sm' : includes Irr
Note on Sp:
The codes as described in Karachentsev et al. (1985) are
'ABS' : absorption-line system
'WEK' : weak emission
'MID' : medium strength emission
'STG' : strong emission
Remarks and Modifications:
The Catalogue of Isolated Pairs of Galaxies in the Northern Hemisphere
was received by the Astronomical Data Center (ADC), NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center, from the Centre de Donnes Astronomiques, Strasbourg
(CDS), in February 1986.
The original tape contained only the single text file. (Although
Karachentsev et al. (1985) refers to a second file of documentation,
this was apparently not included in the data received from the CDS.)
An editor was used to compress the data file from 70 to 59-byte
records by removing blank columns. The data required no further
editing. A FORTRAN program was run that checked the validity of each
field according to its data type and value.
Addendum (27-Apr-1987):
In a private communication dated 18 December 1986 and received by the
Astronomical Data Center 23 April 1987, V. Lebedev notes that the
Catalogue of Isolated Pairs of Galaxies in the Northern Hemisphere
lists several galaxy-star pairs. While these objects have the same
coordinates and radial velocities, there is no information for them
regarding the type of the galaxy or the type of its linear spectrum.
Acknowledgments:
The original ADC documentation by Anne C. Raugh (1986) was used to
generate this ReadMe file.
References:
Karachentsev, I., Lebedev, V., and Shcherbanovskij, A. 1985, Bull.
Inform. CDS, No. 29. 44, 137.
Karachentsev, I. D. 1981, Letters to the Soviet Astron. J., 7, 76.
Karachentsev, I. D. 1983, Letters to the Soviet Astron. J., 9, 67.
White, S. D., Huchra, J., Latham, D., and Davis, M. 1983, Mon. Not. Roy.
Astron. Soc., 203, 701. (1983MNRAS.203..701W)
Tifft, W. G. 1982, Astrophys. J. Suppl., 50, 319. (1982ApJS...50..319T)
Karachentsev, I. D., Sargent, W. L. W., Zimmermann, B. 1979,
Astrofizika, 15, 25. (1979Afz....15...25K)
Karachentsev, I. D., Pronik, V. I., and Chuvaev, K. K. 1975, Astron.
Astrophys., 41, 375. (1975A&A....41..375K)
Karachentsev, I. D., Pronik, V. I., and Chuvaev, K. K. 1976, Astron.
Astrophys., 51, 185. (1976A&A....51..185K)
Rood, H. J. 1983, A Catalogue of Galaxy Redshifts, in press.
(See Cat. <VII/36>)
de Vaucouleurs, G., de Vaucouleurs, A., and Corwin, H. 1976, Second
Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies (Austin: University of Texas).
(See Cat. <VII/112>)
Huchra, J., Davis, M., Latham, D., and Tonry, J. 1983, Astrophys. J.
Suppl., 52, 89. (1983ApJS...52...89H)
Gregory, S. A. 1975, Astrophys. J., 199, 1. (1975ApJ...199....1G)
Khachikjan, E. 1973, Astrofizika, 9, 157. (1973Afz.....9..157K)
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