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VII/170 Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations (Arp+, 1987)
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Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations.
Volume I. Positions and descriptions.
Arp H.C., Madore B.F.
<Cambridge University Press (1987)>
=1987AMCat.C......1A (SIMBAD/NED RefCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Clusters, galaxy
Description:
This "Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations" is a
complete and detailed catalogue of all the most interesting galaxies
and most striking apparent associations of galaxies in the Southern
sky.
The printed catalogue is made of two volumes: Volume I which lists the
Peculiar Galaxies, and Volume II which contains photographs of
galaxies which are representative of the various Categories used in
the Classification scheme presented in Volume I.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
catalog.dat 149 6445 Catalogue of Southern peculiar
galaxies and associations
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See also:
VII/74 : Atlas of (Northern) Peculiar Galaxies (Arp =1966ApJS...14....1A)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1 A1 --- FCflag [*] * indicates that the object is
illustrated in Volume II
2- 9 A8 --- AM AM identification (1)
10- 14 I5 --- n_AM []? More detailed AM identification (2)
16- 17 I2 h RAh Right ascension 1950
18- 19 I2 min RAm Right ascension 1950
20- 21 I2 s RAs Right ascension 1950
22 A1 --- DE- Declination sign
23- 24 I2 deg DEd Declination 1950
25- 28 F4.1 arcmin DEm Declination 1950
30- 35 F6.2 deg GLON Galactic longitude
36- 41 F6.2 deg GLAT Galactic latitude
43- 46 I4 0.1deg SGL Supergalactic longitude
47- 50 I4 0.1deg SGB Supergalacitc latitude
51 A1 --- n_Diam [SD] Note on Diam (3)
52- 55 I4 0.1arcmin Diam []? Diameter or Separation (3)
56- 57 I2 --- CD1 [1-25]? Category (4)
58- 59 I2 --- CD2 [1-25]? Category (4)
60- 61 I2 --- CD3 [1-25]? Category (4)
62- 63 I2 --- CD4 [1-25]? Category (4)
64- 65 I2 --- CD5 [1-25]? Category (4)
66- 68 I3 --- ESO/SERC []? ESO/SERC field number
70- 73 I4 --- SERC-J []? SERC J plate number
75- 77 I3 mm Xpos X position (5)
79- 81 I3 mm Ypos Y position (5)
83-152 A70 --- Desc Description (6)
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Note (1):
Note that the AM designation is based on the 1950 position with
"format" HHMM+DDM, where the last 'M' digit represents truncated tens
of arc minutes (the last digit is always between 0 and 5)
Note (2):
For objects that are part of a pair, a triple or a larger association
of objects which are also listed and described in the Catalogue as
separate entries, this number represents the abbreviated right
ascension and declination of the member immediately preceding the
current object in order of right ascension (only the last number of
right ascension and the four numbers of declination are given)
Note (3):
S or D, indicating that the following number is a measure of either
the separation (S) of major components, or a characteristic diameter
(D) of the system as a whole, respectively.
Note (4): the following Description Codes are used:
1 Galaxies with interacting companion(s)
2 Interacting doubles (galaxies of comparable size)
3 Interacting triples
4 Interacting quartets
5 Interacting quintets
6 Ring galaxies (or morphologically similar objects)
7 Galaxies with (linear) jets
8 Galaxies with apparent companion(s)
9 M51-types (companion at end of spiral arm)
10 Galaxies with peculiar spiral arms
11 Three-armed spirals and multiple-armed spirals
12 Peculiar disks (major asymmetry or deformation)
13 Compact (very high-surface-brightness) galaxies
14 Galaxies with prominent or unusual dust absorption
15 Galaxies with tails, loops of material or debris
16 Irregular or disturbed, (apparently isolated) galaxies
17 Chains (four or more galaxies aligned)
18 Groups (four or more galaxies not aligned)
19 Clusters (only very conspicuous, rich systems)
20 Dwarf galaxies (low surface brightness)
21 Stellar objects with associated nebulosity
22 Miscellaneous (rare or distinctive objects)
23 Close pairs (not visibly interacting)
24 Clode triples (not visibly interacting)
25 Planetary nebulae
Note (5):
The Cartesian coordinates of the object are measured from the lower
left-hand (south-east) corner of the original SERC plate.
Note (6): the following abbreviations are used:
ABS'N. absorption
APP. apparent
ASSOC. association
ASYMM. asymmetric
BR. bright
CIRC. circular
COMP'N. companion
COMP'NS. companions
CONDENS. condensation
CONN. connected/ing/ion
DBL. double
DIAM. diametric
E elliptical
ELONG. elongated
ENVEL. envelope
FILAM. filament
FNT. faint
G.D. grand design
GAL./GALS. galaxy/galaxies
GRP. group
HI.S.BR. high surface brightness
incl. including
I/A interacting
IRR. irregular
LO.S.BR. low surface brightness
MA.AX. major axis
MATR'L material
MDM.S.BR. medium surface brightness
MI.AX. minor axis
MULTI. multiple
PEC. peculiar
S.BR. surface brightness
SP. spiral
V. very
w. with
+ and or plus
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Historical Notes:
The machine file of the Arp & Madore Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1987)
was kindly provided by B. Madore to H. Andernach in April 1991. A few
formatting errors were detected by H. Andernach, corrected and
commented to B.Madore that time. H. Andernach provided a copy to CDS
in February 1993. Further formatting errors were detected and
corrected at CDS. Two more errors (diameter of AM 0640-505 and
Category of AM 1934-563) were detected by H. Andernach in June 1996
and corrected.
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(End) Patricia Bauer [CDS] (18-Jan-1995), rev. Heinz Andernach 11-Jun-1996