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Superseded Catalog of Galaxies Behind the Milky Way (Saito+ 1990,91)
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Catalog of Galaxies Behind the Milky Way, l-210 to 230 degrees (Vol. 1)
Saito M., Ohtani H., Asonuma A., Kashikawa N., Maki T., Nishida S.,
Watanabe T.
<Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan, Vol. 42, 603 (1990)>
=1990PASJ...42..603S
Catalog of Galaxies Behind the Milky Way, l-230 to 250 degrees (Vol. 2)
Saito M., Ohtani H., Baba A., Hotta N., Kameno S., Kurosu S., Nakada K.,
Takata T.
<Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan, Vol. 43, 449 (1991)>
=1991PASJ...43..449S
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ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs
Description:
This catalog, giving about 7000 galaxies behind the Milky Way between
l = 210 degrees and 250 degrees, represents a systematic search for
galaxies by means of 32 film copies of the UK Schmidt Southern Infrared
Atlas on the Milky Way covering about 900 square degrees. In the search
galaxies with apparent sizes greater than 0.1 mm on film ( 6.7 arcsec in
size ) were detected by visual inspection. The material and procedure
of search are described as well as the detectability of galaxies in paper
I and paper II appended before Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 of the catalog,
respectively, which have been published in Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan, Vol.
42 (1990) and Vol. 43 (1991). The parameters of cataloged galaxies are also
explained in paper I. Cross-identifications with other catalogs are shown
in the last column.
The search was performed by undergraduate students of a galactic
astronomy program in Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University, in 1988
and 1989. Since the main researchers changed from the search in 1988
( Vol. 1 ) to that in 1989 ( Vol. 2 ), a surface brightness level deter-
mining the extents of galaxy images somewhat differs between Vol. 1 and
Vol. 2, yielding a difference of mean number densities of the detected
galaxies between Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. The difference is examined in paper
II. The detectability of galaxies, especially of smallest galaxies,
increased in the overlap zones of adjacent fields of the Atlas; the
effects are discussed in a paper ( Yamada and Saito 1991, to appear in
Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan, Vol. 43 ). In spite of such inhomogeneities
in search for galaxies, the catalog is useful as a finding list of bright
galaxies, peculiar galaxies, and nearby clusters of galaxies in the
region behind the Milky Way.
The machine-readable version of the catalog has been made through
efforts of Mr. Shogo Nishida, Mr. Tadafumi Takata, and Professor Shiro
Nishimura. This will be distributed upon request from Astronomical Data
Analysis Center of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and
other astronomical data centers.
This work was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific
Research (01420002) of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, and
Culture.
June 1991 Mamoru Saito
See also:
Superseded by catalog 7209:
7209 Galaxies Behind the Milky Way (Saito+ 1990-91; Roman+ 1996-98)
at URL ftp://adc.astro.umd.edu/pub/adc/archives/catalogs/7/7209
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