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/external/nonstell/E7005/

The ADC has expanded its resources in order to better serve our users, we have developed a new category called "external" to complement our catalogs and journal table directories. You can access the data set described here through the URL:
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~frei/catalog.htm.
or the European mirror site
http://alcyone.elte.hu/~frei/galaxy_catalog.html.

The following is an abbreviated "ReadMe" document that describes this external data set.
E/VII/5   A Catalog of Digital Images of 113 Nearby Galaxies        (Frei+ 1996)
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A Catalog of Digital Images of 113 Nearby Galaxies
   Frei Z., Guhathakurta P., Gunn J.E., Tyson J.A.
   <Astron. J. 111, 174 (1996)>
   =1996AJ....111..174F
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ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, nearby; Galaxies, photometry; External catalog 

Location: http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~frei/catalog.htm
          http://alcyone.elte.hu/~frei/galaxy_catalog.html -European mirror site
   
Description:   
   We present a digital catalog of images of 113 galaxies. These galaxies are 
   all nearby, bright, large, and well resolved. All images were recorded with 
   charge coupled devices (CCDs) at the Palomar Observatory with the 1.5 m 
   telescope and at the Lowell Observatory with the 1.1 m telescope. At Palomar
   we used the Thuan-Gunn g, r, and i photometric bands [Thuan & Gunn, PASP, 
   88, 543 (1976)] to take 3 images each of 31 spiral galaxies; at Lowell we 
   used the J and R bands (2 images per galaxy) of the photometric system by 
   Gullixson et al. [ApJS, 99, 281(1995)] to observe 82 spirals and ellipticals.
   The galaxies were selected to span the Hubble classification classes. All 
   data are photometrically calibrated with foreground stars removed. Important 
   data on these galaxies published in the Third Reference Catalog of Bright 
   Galaxies (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991) are recorded in the FITS file headers.
   All files are available at http://astro.princeton.edu/~frei/catalog.htm,
   and Princeton University Press will soon publish the data on CD-ROM.

References:
   de Vaucouleurs, G., de Vaucouleurs, A., Corwin Jr., H. G., Buta, R. J.,
     Paturel, G., and Fouque, P. 1991, Third Reference Catalogue of Bright
     Galaxies (RC3), Springer-Verlag: New York =1991trcb.book.....D
   Gullixson, C. A., Boeshaar, P. C., Tyson, J. A., and Seitzer, P. 1995,
     Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 99, 281 =1995ApJS...99..281G
   Thuan, T. X., and Gunn, J. E. 1976, Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 88, 543
     =1976PASP...88..543T
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(End)                       Nils Odegard [SSDOO/ADC]                24-Aug-1999
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