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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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(End) Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]; C.-H. Joseph Lyu [Hughes STX/NASA]  27-Jan-1997

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