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VII/83              Isolated Triplets of galaxies  (Karachentseva+ 1988)
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Isolated triple galaxies. The complete sample for radial velocities
and reduced data.
     Karachentseva V.E., Karachentsev I.D., Lebedev V.S.
    <Astrofiz. Issled. 26, 42 (1988)>
    =1988AISAO..26...42K      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs

Description:
    The complete data for radial velocities of components of triple
    galaxies are presented. The main part of observations was accomplished
    with the 6-meter telescope.

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
catalog.dat     80        252    Data for the triplets of galaxies
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   3-  4  I2     ---     Seq      [1/84] Running number
       5  A1     ---     m_Seq    [ABC] Component in triplet
   8- 10  A3     ---     Isol     [+-] Isolation criteria of Karachentsev
  13- 14  I2     h       RAh      Right Ascension 1950 (hours)
  16- 19  F4.1   min     RAm      Right Ascension 1950 (minutes)
      22  A1     ---     DE-      Declination 1950 (sign)
  23- 24  I2     deg     DEd      Declination 1950 (degrees)
  26- 27  I2     arcmin  DEm      Declination 1950 (minutes)
  30- 33  F4.1   mag     Mag      apparent magnitude
      34  A1     ---     n_Mag    [*] (unexplained flag)
  36- 40  F5.1   arcmin  MajAxis  Major axis reduced to 25mag/arcsec2 isophote
  43- 46  F4.2   ---     Min/Maj  ]0/1] Ratio MinAxis/MajAxis
  49- 51  A3     ---     MType    Morphological classification
  53- 57  F5.1   arcmin  Sep      Separation between the components (1)
      60  A1     ---     Geom     [TDL] Geometrical configuration (2)
      63  I1     ---     Nopt     ? Number of optical components
  66- 70  I5     km/s    RadVel   ? Radial velocity
  74- 76  I3     km/s    e_RadVel ? Mean error on  RadVel
  79- 80  I2     ---     r_RadVel [1/12]? Reference code (3)
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Note (1): separations refer to components:
    m_Seq = 'A' : A-B
    m_Seq = 'B' : B-C
    m_Seq = 'C' : C-A
Note (2): Geometry is indicated as:
     T = Triangle       D = Double+isolated     L = line
Note (3): References:
     1 = Karachentseva V.E., Karachentsev I.D., Shcherbanovsky A.L, 1979
         Astrofiz. Issled. 11, 3
     2 = Zwicky F., Herzog E., KArpowicz C.T., Kowal C.T., "Catalogue
         of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies", vols I-VI,
         California Inst. of Technology 1961-68
     3 = Karachentsev I.D., Karachentseva V.E., 1981, Astrofyz. 17, 5
     4 = Karachentseva V.E., Karachentsev I.D., 1983, Astrofiz. 19, 613
     5 = Karachentsev I.D., Karachentseva V.E., Shcherbanovsky A.L, 1978,
         Pis'ma Astron. Zh. 4, 483
     6 = Karachentsev I.D.,, Karachentseva V.E., Shcherbanovsky A.L, 1985,
         Astrofiz. Issled. 19, 3
     7 = Geller M.J., Huchra J.P., 1983, ApJS 52, 61
     8 = Tifft W., 1982, ApJS 50, 319
     9 = Baiesi-Pillastrini G.C., Palumbo G.G.C., Vettolani G., 1984,
         A&AS 56, 363
    10 = Rood H.J, 1980, "A catalogue of galaxy redshifts", preprint
    11 = Huchtmeier W.K., Richter O.G., et al., 1983, ESO Preprint 250
    12 = Karachentseva V.E., 1973, Astrofyz. 8, 3
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Historical Notes:
    The catalogue on magnetic tape was received at CDS from Moscow Data Center 
    before the actual publication;
    the ReadMe file was added in July 1995.
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(End)                                     Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]  23-Jul-1995

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