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VII/82A     Isolated Galaxies (Karachentseva+ 1973)
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Catalogue of Isolated Galaxies
    Karachentseva V.E., Lebedev V.S., Shcherbanovskij A.L.
    <CDS Bull. No. 30, p. 125 (1986)>
    =1986BICDS..30..125K
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ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs 

Description:
  The catalog is a compilation of information on 1051 isolated
  galaxies with apparent magnitudes brighter than 15.7 and north of
  declination -3 degrees. New data about the morphological types, the
  isolation class, and the radial velocities have been added to this
  version.  The catalog includes running numbers for the galaxies,
  equatorial coordinates, isolation classes, apparent magnitudes,
  morphological types, major axes, axial ratios, and radial
  velocities. 

File Summary:
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 FileName       Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
data.dat           52     1051   Catalog data for 1051 isolated galaxies
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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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   1-  4   I4      ---     Num       Running number of the galaxy in this catalog
   5-  7   I3      h       RAh       Right ascension (Equatorial coord. 1950.0) 
   8- 12   F5.1    min     RAm       RA in minutes
      14   A1      ---     DE-       Sign of Declination
  15- 16   I2      deg     DEd       Declination (1950) in degrees
  17- 19   I3      arcmin  DEm       DEC in arcminutes
  20- 21   I2      ---     IsoClass *Isolation class
  22- 26   F5.1    mag     Vmag      Apparent magnitude    
  28- 29   A2      ---     Mtype    *Morphological type
  30- 34   F5.1    arcmin  Maxis     Major axis           
  35- 39   F5.2    ---     AxiRatio *Axial ratio
  40- 45   I6      km/s    RadVel    ? Radial velocity     
  46- 49   I4      km/s    e_RadVel  ? Mean square error in the radial velocity
  50- 52   I3      ---     r_RadVel *? Rad. vel. source
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Note on IsoClass:
   Single-digit number in the range 0-2:
      0 = Isolated
      1 = Marginally isolated
      2 = Member of a group or cluster

Note on Mtype:
   Morphological type. Two-character code:
      E  = Elliptical
      S0 = Lenticular
      SA = Includes SBa
      SB = Includes SBb
      SC = Includes SBc
      SM = Includes Irr

Note on AxiRatio:
   Ratio of the minor axis to the major axis.

Note on r_RadVel:
   Two-digit code indicating the source of the radial velocity. The full
   forms of the references and their corresponding codes are listed in
   Appendix A.

Historical Remarks:
   The (CIG) was received by the Astronomical Data Center (ADC), NASA
   Goddard Space Flight Center, from the Centre de Donnees
   Astronomiques, Strasbourg (CDS), in December 1986. The original tape
   consisted of two text files, one containing the catalog data and another
   containing a short explanation of the catalog fields and the list of
   radial velocity source references. The only change made to the catalog
   file was to delete blank columns to reduce the record size from 65 to 52
   bytes. 

  Appendix A. -  Radial Velocity References
  1. Karachentseva, V. E., and Karachentsev, I. D. 1981, Pis'ma Astron. Zh., 
     7, 195. 
     Karachentseva, V. E., and Karachentsev, I. D. 1979, Astrofizika, 15, 589. 
     Karachentseva, V. E., and Karachentsev, I. D. 1985, Astrofizika, 22, 
     in press. 
  2. Rood, N. J. 1980, Catalog of Galaxy Redshifts.
  3. Huchra, J., Davis, M., Latham, D., and Tanory, J. 1983,
     Astrophys. J. Suppl., 52, 89.
     Bothum, G. D., Geller, M. J., Beers, T. C., and Huchra, J. P.,
     CfA Preprint, N 1714.
  4. Sandage, A. R. 1978, Astron. J., 83, 904.
  5. Haynes, M. P., and Giovanelli, R., 1984, Astron. J., 89, 195.
  6. Arakelian, M. A., Dibay, E. A., and Yessipov, V. F. 1972,
     Astrofizika, 8, 177, 329.
  7. Arakelian, M. A., Dibay, E. A., and Yessipov, V. F. 1975,
     Astrofizika, 11, 377.
  8. Arakelian, M. A., Dibay, E. A., and Yessipov, V. F. 1976,
     Astrofizika, 12, 195.
  9. Gueriguene, M. F. 1975, in La Dynamique de Galaxies Spirals. 
  10. de Vaucouleurs, G., de Vaucouleurs, A., and Corwin, H. 1976, Second 
      Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies (Austin: University of Texas). 
  11. Sargent, W. L. W. 1970, Astrophys. J., 160, 405.
  12. Thonnard, N., Rubin, V. C., Ford, W. K., and Roberts, M. 1978,
      Astron. J., 83, 1564.
  13. Barton, R. 1969, Mem. Soc. Astr. Ital., 40, 211.

Acknowledgements:
  The original ADC documentation by Anne C. Raugh (1987) was used to create 
  this ReadMe file.

References:
  Karachentseva, V. E., Lebedev, V. S., and Shcherbanovskij, A. L., 1973,
    Communications of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the USSR AS,
    No. 8. 
  Karachentseva, V. E., Lebedev, V. S., and Shcherbanovskij, A. L., 1986,
    unpublished documentation supplied with the catalog by the Centre de
    Donnees Astronomiques, Strasbourg. 
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(End) C.-H. Joseph Lyu [Hughes STX] 12-Dec-1995 ; Paul Kuin [ADC] 13-May-1997