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VII/88       CEDAG Catalogue of Clusters of Galaxies    (Fernandez+ 1984)
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CEDAG Catalogue of Clusters of Galaxies
    Fernandez A., Mathez G., Nottale L.
    <Comptes Rendus sur les Journees de Strasbourg, 6eme Reunion, 33,
     Strasbourg: Observatoire de Strasbourg (1984)>
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ADC_Keywords: Clusters, galaxy ; Galaxy catalogs

Description:
    This catalog contains for 10411 objects, the Abell, Zwicky, and
    Kalinkov numbers of groups of galaxies. In addition, it contains:
    Abell or Zwicky coordinates, the Abell or Zwicky numbers of the
    supercluster which contains each group, the diameter (Zwicky), the
    magnitude (Abell), the compactness (Zwicky), the distance of the group
    (both Abell and Zwicky), the richness (Abell) and the population
    (Zwicky).

File Summary:
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 FileName       Lrecl        Records    Explanations
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ReadMe             80              .    This file
cedag.dat         103          10411    The data for each group
notes.dat          80             85   *Notes on individual groups
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Note on notes.dat: the notes primarily contain errors by Karachentsev
    in the cross-identification of Abell and Zwicky numbers.
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See also:
   VII/4 : Abell and Zwicky Clusters of Galaxies (Abell+ 1974)
   VII/49 : Galaxies in CGCG (Zwicky, 1968)


Byte-by-byte Description of file: cedag.dat
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   Bytes    Format      Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  2     I2         h       RAh      *Right ascension hours (1950)
   3-  4     I2         min     RAm       Right ascension minutes (1950)
       5     A1         ---     DE-       Sign of the declination (1950)
   6-  7     I2         deg     DEd       Declination degrees (1950)
   8-  9     I2         arcmin  DEm       Declination minutes (1950)
  11- 14     I4         ---     Abell     ? Abell number
  16- 17     I2         h       RAhA      ? Right ascension hours (Abell)
  18- 19     I2         min     RAmA      ? Right ascension minutes (Abell)
  20- 21     I2         s       RAsA      ? Right ascension seconds (Abell)
      22     A1         ---     DE-A      Sign of Abell declination
  23- 24     I2         deg     DEdA      ? Declination degrees (Abell)
  25- 26     I2         arcmin  DEmA      ? Declination minutes (Abell)
  27- 28     I2         arcsec  DEsA      ? Declination seconds (Abell)
  30- 35     I6         ---     Zwicky    ? Zwicky number
  37- 38     I2         h       RAhZ      ? Right ascension hours (Zwicky)
  39- 40     I2         min     RAmZ      ? Right ascension minutes (Zwicky)
  41- 42     I2         s       RAsZ      ? Right ascension seconds (Zwicky)
      43     A1         ---     DE-Z      Sign of Zwicky declination
  44- 45     I2         deg     DEdZ      ? Declination degrees (Zwicky)
  46- 47     I2         arcmin  DEmZ      ? Declination minutes (Zwicky)
  48- 49     I2         arcsec  DEsZ      ? Declination seconds (Zwicky)
  51- 54     I4         ---     Kalinkov  ? Kalinkov number
  56- 67     A12        ---     sup_ID   *Abell or Zwicky number of supercluster
  69- 80     A12        ---     clus_ID  *Abell or Zwicky number of cluster
  82- 83     I2         deg     diam_d    ? Zwicky diameter (degrees)
  84- 85     I2         arcmin  diam_m    ? Zwicky diameter (arcminutes)
  87- 90     F4.1       mag     mag       ? Magnitude (Abell)
      92     I1         ---     comp      ? Compactness (Zwicky)
      94     I1         ---     distA     ? Distance group (Abell)
      96     I1         ---     distZ     ? Distance group (Zwicky)
      98     I1         ---     rich      ? Richness (Abell)
 100-103     I4         ---     pop       ? Population (Zwicky)
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Note on RAh:
   The positions in bytes 1 to 9 are from Abell if those are available;
   otherwise they are from Zwicky. In both cases they are rounded to the
   minute of time or arc. The more specific positions are in bytes 16 to
   49.
Note on sup_ID and clus_ID:
   For galaxies in superclusters, these columns give the number of the
   corresponding supercluster and of the cluster within that supercluster
   to which the galaxy belongs.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: notes.dat
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   Bytes      Format    Units     Label     Explanations
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       1       A1        ---      cat      *[AK] Source: A=Abell; K=Kalinkov
   2-  5       I4        ---      ID       *? The number in that source
   7- 80       A74       ---      Text      Text of the note
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Note on cat and ID:
   If bytes 1-5 are blank, the note is a continuation of the previous line.
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Data sources:
   The following list of catalogs of clusters of galaxies is included in
   Fernandez et. al. (1984). For each reference, the parentheses contain
   the type of sources and the data included. These are followed by a
   number indicating the number of entries.

   Zwicky F., Karpowicz M, Kowal C. T., Herzog E , Wlld P., Catalog of
      galaxies and of clusters of galaxies (CGCG) Calif. Inst. of Techn.
      1961-1968. (Clusters; Coordinates, distance class, compactness,
      population, maps) 9700
   Abell G.0., 1958. Astrophys. J. Supp. 3. 211 (Clusters - magnitude of tenth
      brightest galaxy, distance class, richness class) 2712
   Klemola A.R., 1969, Astron. J. 74, 804 (Clusters and groups, [south] -
      coordinates, angular dimensions, population, magnitude, type) 44
   Snow T. P. Jr. 1970, Astron. J. 75, 237 (Clusters and groups [south] -
      Coordinates, angular dimensions, population, magnitude, type) 34
   Sersic J.L. 1974. Astrophys. Space Scl. 28, 365 (Clusters and groups
      [south] - Coordinates, dimension, description) 68
   Rose J. A. 1976, Astron Astrophys. Suppl. 23, 109 (Clusters [south] -
      Coordinates, population, dimensions, type) 124
   Duus A., Newell B., 1977 Astrophys. J. Suppl. 75, 209 (Clusters [south]
      - Coordinates, concentration class, distance class, population) 957
   Braid M.K., Mac Gilliwray H. T., 1978, M.N.R.A.S 182, 241 (Clusters
      [south] - Coordinates, distance class, richness class) 474
   Vidal V. N. 1980. Catalogue of very faint clusters of galaxies in the
      region of the South Galactic Pole (unpublished) (Clusters [south])
   Murray S.S., Forman W., Jones C., Giacconi R., 1978, Ap. J. Lett. 219,
      L89 (Superclusters) 21
   Rood H. J. 1976, Ap. J. 207, 16 (Superclusters) 44
   Thuan T.X., 1980, "Les Houches" Session XXXII, Cosmologie Physique, p.
      277 (Superclusters) 17
   Fullerton W., Hoover P., 1972, Ap. J. 172, 9 (Superclusters) 4
   Abell G.0., 1961, A.J. 66, 607 (Superclusters) 17
   Gusak A.I., 1970, Soviet Physics Astronomy 13, 964 (Superclusters) 9
   Rose J.A., 1977, Ap. J. 211, 311 (Compact groups - Coordinates, magnitude,
      dimensions) 38
   Karachentsev J. D., 1970, Prob. kosm. Fiz. 5, 201 (Groups) 63
   Hickson P., 1982, Ap. J. 255, 382 (Compact groups - coordinates, number,
      magnitude, velocity) 100
   Huchra J.P., Geller M.J., 1982, Ap. J. 257, 423; Geller M. J., Huchra
      J.P., 1983, Ap. J. Suppl. 52, 61 (Groups - Coordinates, number of
      galaxies, radial velocity, velocity dispersion, magnitude, radius,
      separation, list of individual galaxies) 92, 176
   Materne J., 1978, Astron. Astrophys. 63, 401 (Groups) 5
   Materne J., 1979, Astron. Astrophys. 74, 235 (Groups) 5
   Tully B., 1982, Ap. J. 257, 389 (Groups, clouds) 11
   Shakhbazian R. K., 1973, Astrophysics 9, 296 - List I; Shakhbazian R.K.,
      Petrosian M.B., 1974, Astrophysics 10, 6 - List II; Baier F.W.,
      Petrosian M.B., Tiersch H., Shakhbazian R.K., 1974, Astrophysics 10,
      202 - List III; Petrosian M.B., 1974, Astrophysics 10, 291 - List IV;
      Baier F.W., Tiersch H., 1975, Astrophysics 11, 146 - List V;
      Baier F.W., Tiersch H. 1976, Astrophysics 12, 1 - List VI; Baier F.W.,
      Tiersch H., 1976, Astrophysics 12, 263 - List VII;
      Baier F.W., Tiersch H., 1978, Astr physics 14, 157 - List VIII;
      Petrosian M.B., 1978, Astrophysics 14, 356 - List IX; Baier F.W.,
      Tiersch H., 1979, Astr physics 15, 24 - List X; (Compact groups of
      compact galaxies - Coordinates, [cross-identification], number of
      galaxies [more than four] [magnitude of the brightest), angular
      dimension, coefficient of relative compactness.) 377
   Einasto J., Joeveer M., Kaasik A., Kalamees P., Vennik J. 1977, Tartu
      Astron. Obs., Teat
   Einasto J., Joeveer M., Kaasik A., Kalamees P., Vennik J. 1977, Tartu
      Astron. Obs., Teated NŻ 49 (Hypergalaxies) 60
   Vorontsov-Velyaminov B.A., 1959, "Atlas and Catalog of Interacting
      Galaxies", vol. 1, Sternberg Institute, Moscow State University;
      1977, Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. 28, 1, vol. II (Interacting galaxies)
   de Vaucouleurs G., 1975, in Stars and Stellar Systems vol. IX p. 557,
      ed. Sandage (Groups - radial velocity, distance modulus, coordinates
      [galactic, supergalactic], diameters) 54
   Turner E.L., Gott J.R.Ill, 1976, Ap. J. Suppl. 32, 409 (Groups -
      Coordinates, population, angular diameter, total magnitude, radial
      velocity, velocity dispersion, faint members, contamination [amount])
      103
   Shane C.D., Wirtanen C.A., 1967 Pub. Lick Obs. 22, part I (Galaxy counts
      [Lick])
   Seldner N., Siebers B., Groth E.J. Peebles P.J.E., 1977, Astron. J. 82,
      249 (Galaxy counts; new reduction of Lick counts (magnitude range)
   Projects in process: Abell - continuation of Zwicky (Southern clusters)

References:
   Abell G. O., 1958.  Astrophysics. J. Supp. 3, 211 (see catalog <VII/110>)
   Fernandez, A., Nottale, L., 1984, Bull.  Inform. CDS, 26, 93
   Karachentsev, J. D., 1970, Prob. kosm. Fiz. 5, 201
   Zwicky, F., Karpowicz, M., Kowal, C. T., Herzog, E., Wild, P., Catalog of
      galaxies and of clusters of galaxies (CGCG) Calif. Inst. of Techn.
      1961-1968 (see catalogs <VII/49> and <VII/4>)
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(End)             Nancy Grace Roman   [ADC/SSDOO]                    05-Mar-1996

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