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J/A+AS/145/111      HDF-South catalogue of galaxies          (Volonteri+, 2000)
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A catalogue of galaxies in the HDF-South: photometry and structural parameters
    Volonteri M., Saracco P., Chincarini G.
   <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 145, 111 (2000)>
   =2000A&AS..145..111V
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ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ;  Photometry, UBVRI
Mission_Name: HST
Keywords: cosmology: observations - galaxies: photometry, catalogs general

Description:
    We present a catalogue of galaxies in the HDF-S, created using the
    public version 1 images of the WFPC2 data. We created a catalogue with
    4 pass-band (I(814), V(606), B(450), U(300). In V(606),
    B(450), U(300) and I(814), for each galaxy the catalogue gives
    photometric parameters. For the I(814), we estimated also the colours
    and for I(814)<26, the petrosian radius, the mean surface brightness
    within the petrosian radius, light concentration indexes, that is
    C_eta_ and C_abr_, and the asymmetry index as computed by Abraham
    software.

File Summary:
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 FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe            80        .   This file
ubvimag.dat      339     4553   UBVI photometry catalogue
colour.dat        59     1398   UBVI colours catalogue
struct.dat        45      318   Structural parameters
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See also:
   J/AJ/112/359   : Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (van den Bergh+ 1996)
   J/AJ/112/1335  : Hubble Deep Field observations (Williams+ 1996)
   J/A+AS/129/583 : Hubble Deep Field surface photometry (Fasano+ 1998)
   J/ApJ/507/585  : Hubble Deep Field galaxy morphology (Marleau+, 1998)
   J/ApJ/513/34   : HDF photometric redshifts catalog (Fernandez-Soto+, 1999)
   J/AJ/119/486   : The Hubble Deep Field South: STIS imaging (Gardner+, 2000)


Byte-by-byte Description of file: ubvimag.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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       1  A1    ---     Band      [UBVI] HST band (300 - 450 - 606 - 814nm)
   3- 13  E11.5 ct      FISO      Isophotal flux (SExtractor)
  15- 25  E11.5 ct    e_FISO      RMS error for isophotal flux
  27- 32  F6.3  mag     ISOmag    Isophotal magnitude
  34- 39  F6.3  mag   e_ISOmag    RMS error for isophotal magnitude
  41- 51  E11.5 ct      FISOc     Corrected isophotal flux (SExtractor)
  53- 63  E11.5 ct    e_FISOc     RMS error for corrected isophotal flux
  65- 70  F6.3  mag     ISOmagc   Corrected isophotal magnitude
  72- 77  F6.3  mag   e_ISOmagc   RMS error for corrected isophotal magnitude
  79- 89  E11.5 ct      Faper     Fixed circular aperture (0.6" radius) flux
  91-101  E11.5 ct    e_Faper     RMS error for fixed circular aperture flux
 103-108  F6.3  mag     apermag   ?=99. Fixed circular aperture magnitude
 110-115  F6.3  mag   e_apermag   ?=99. RMS error for apermag
 117-127  E11.5 ct      Fauto     Flux within a Kron-like elliptical aperture
 129-139  E11.5 ct    e_Fauto     Kron's technique RMS flux error
 141-146  F6.3  mag     automag   Kron's technique magnitude
 148-153  F6.3  mag   e_automag   Kron's technique magnitude RMS error
 155-165  E11.5 ct      Fbest     SExtractor best choice for photometry
                                   (Fauto or FISOc)
 167-177  E11.5 ct    e_Fbest     RMS error for BEST flux
 179-184  F6.3  mag     bestmag   Best of automag and ISOmagc
 186-191  F6.3  mag   e_bestmag   RMS error for BEST magnitude
 193-198  F6.3  mag     mtot      Pseudo-total magnitude
 200-205  F6.3  mag   e_mtot      Pseudo-total magnitude error
 207-213  F7.2  pix+2   ISOimage  Isophotal (1 sigma) area
 215-220  F6.1  pix     Ximage    Barycentre position along x (version 1 frames)
 222-227  F6.1  pix     Yimage    Barycentre position along y (version 1 frames)
 229-237  F9.5  deg     RAdeg     Right Ascension of barycentre (J2000)
 239-247  F9.5  deg     DEdeg     Declination of barycentre (J2000)
 249-255  F7.2  pix+2   X2image   Variance along x
 257-263  F7.2  pix+2 e_X2image   Variance of position along x
 265-271  F7.2  pix+2   Y2image   Variance along y
 273-279  F7.2  pix+2 e_Y2image   Variance of position along y
 281-287  F7.2  pix+2   XYimage   Covariance between x and y
 289-295  F7.2  pix+2   eXYimage  Covariance of position between x and y
 297-301  F5.1  pix     Aimage    Profile RMS along semi-major axis
 303-307  F5.1  pix   e_Aimage    RMS position error along semi-major axis
 309-313  F5.1  pix     Bimage    Profile RMS along semi-minor axis
 315-319  F5.1  pix   e_Bimage    RMS position error along semi-minor axis
 321-325  F5.1  pix    FWHMimage  FWHM assuming a gaussian core
     327  I1    --      FLAGS     Extraction flags
 329-333  F5.3  --      Class     Star-galaxy classification
 335-339  F5.1  --      S/N       Signal-to-noise ratio
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: colour.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  9  F9.5  deg     RAdeg     Right Ascension of barycentre (J2000)
  11- 19  F9.5  deg     DEdeg     Declination of barycentre (J2000)
  21- 26  F6.3  mag     B-V       ?=99.999 B(450nm)-V(606nm) colour
  28- 29  I2    ---   n_B-V       ?=9 Note on B-V (1)
  31- 36  F6.3  mag     V-I       ?=99.999 V(606nm)-I(814nm) colour
  38- 39  I2    ---   n_V-I       ?=9 Note on V-I (1)
  41- 46  F6.3  mag     B-I       ?=99.999 B(450nm)-I(814nm) colour
  48- 49  I2    ---   n_B-I       ?=9 Note on B-I (1)
  51- 56  F6.3  mag     U-B       ?=99.999 U(300nm)-B(450nm) colour
  58- 59  I2    ---   n_U-B       ?=9 Note on U-B (1)
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Note (1): Note on colours:
      0 for uncensored data
      1 for lower limits
     -1 for upper limits
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: struct.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  5  F5.3  ---     Cabr      [0,1] Light concentration index (1)
   7- 12  F6.3  ---     A         Asymmetry index (1)
  14- 18  F5.2  arcsec  Theta     ?=-1. Petrosian radius
  20- 24  F5.2 mag/arcsec+2 SuBr  ?=-1. Mean surface brightness within Theta
  26- 31  F6.3  ---     Ceta      [0,1]?=-1. Light concentration index
  33- 38  F6.1  pix     Ximage    Barycentre position along x (2)
  40- 45  F6.1  pix     Yimage    Barycentre position along y (2)
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Note (1): Abraham's technique,
          Abraham et al., 1994ApJ...432...75A and 1996MNRAS.279L..47A
Note (2): version 1 frames
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Acknowledgements: Paolo Saracco <saracco@merate.mi.astro.it>

History:
  * 05-Dec-2000: The data files, originally received without any formatting,
    were reformatted by rounding the numbers to some "reasonable" number
    of decimals.
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(End)                                          Patricia Bauer [CDS]  10-May-2000

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