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J/A+AS/145/263      Kinematical data on early-type galaxies. V. (Simien+, 2000)
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Kinematical data on early-type galaxies. V.
    Simien F., Prugniel P.
      <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 145, 263 (2000)>
      =2000A&AS..145..263S      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Radial velocities ; Galaxies, rotation ; Velocity dispersion
Keywords: galaxies: elliptical & lenticular, cD -
          galaxies: kinematics and dynamics - galaxies: fundamental parameters -
          galaxies: general
Abstract:
    We present kinematical data for a sample of 26 galaxies. Rotation
    curves and velocity-dispersion profiles are determined for all
    objects. This is our fifth paper in a series devoted to the
    presentation of data on elliptical and S0 galaxies, derived from
    long-slit absorption spectroscopy; the series now gathers 119 galaxies
    with homogeneous data.

File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records    Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .    This file
table1.dat         94       26    Catalog elements and kinematical results
table2.dat         35       29    Log of the observations
table3.dat         37      548    Profiles of velocity dispersion and rotation
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See also:
   J/A+AS/122/521 : Kinematical data on early-type galaxies. I. (Simien+ 1997)
   J/A+AS/126/15  : Kinematical data on early-type galaxies. II. (Simien+ 1997)
   J/A+AS/126/519 : Kinematical data on early-type galaxies. III. (Simien+ 1997)
   J/A+AS/131/287 : Kinematical data on early-type galaxies. IV. (Simien+ 1998)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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    1- 9  A9     ---     Name     ! Object identification
   11-12  I2     ---     Mtype    ! Morphological type
   14-15  I2     h       RAh      ! Right Ascension 1950 (hours)
   17-18  I2     min     RAm      ! Right Ascension 1950 (minutes)
   20-23  F4.1   s       RAs      ! Right Ascension 1950 (seconds)
      25  A1     -       DE-      ! Declination 1950 (sign)
   26-27  I2     deg     DEd      ! Declination 1950 (degrees)
   29-30  I2     arcmin  DEm      ! Declination 1950 (minutes)
   32-33  I2     arcsec  DEs      ! Declination 1950 (seconds)
   35-39  F5.2   mag     Bt       ! Integrated blue magnitude
   41-45  F5.2   mag     mMB     *! -M_B_, opposite of B-band absolute magnitude
   47-51  F5.1   arcsec  Radeff   ?=999.9 Effective radius
   53-56  F4.2   ---     Eps      ! Ellipticity
   58-60  I3     deg     PA      *?=999 Position angle of slit
      62  I1     ---   r_PA      *! Reference for PA
   64-68  I5     km/s    HRV      ?=99999 Heliocentric radial velocity
      69  A1     ---   u_HRV      Uncertainty flag on Vhel
   70-72  I3     km/s  e_HRV      ?=999 Mean error on Vhel
   74-76  I3     km/s    sig0     ?=999 Central velocity dispersion
      77  A1     ---   u_sig0    *Uncertainty flag on sig0
   78-80  I3     km/s  e_sig0     ?=999 Mean error on sig0
      82  A1     ---   l_Vmax     Upper- or lower-limit flag on Vmax
   83-85  I3     km/s    Vmax     ?=999 Maximum rotational velocity
      86  A1     ---   u_Vmax     Uncertainty flag on Vmax
   88-90  I3     km/s  e_Vmax     ?=999 Mean error on Vmax
   92-94  I3     arcsec  rmax     ?=999 radius: Vmax is measured in [-rmax,rmax]
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Note on PA:
    PA (North --> East) as given in the range [0, 180[ by the LEDA database
    (status: 17 January 2000).
Note on mMB:
    for H_0_=75 km/s/Mpc
Note on r_PA:
   1 = Djorgovski (1985, PhD thesis. Univ. of California, Berkeley)
   2 = LEDA, <http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/base/>
   3 = this work, from DSS images (acknowledgements in printed version of paper)
Note on u_sig0:
    Uncertainty due to bad seeing conditions.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units     Label      Explanations
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    1- 9  A9     ---       Name       ! Object identification
   11-18  A8   "DD/MM/YY"  Date       ! Date of observation
      20  I1     ---       Setup     *! Spectrograph setup
   22-24  I3     deg       PA        *! Position angle of slit
      26  I1     ---       Nexp       ! Number of exposures
   28-30  I3     min       Texp       ! Exposure time
   32-34  F3.1   arcsec    Seeing     ?=9.9 Seeing FWHM
      35  A1     ---     u_Seeing     Uncertainty flag on Seeing
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Note on Setup:
    Setup=1 corresponds to a dispersion of 66 Angtroems per mm
    Setup=2 corresponds to a dispersion of 33 Angtroems per mm
Note on PA:
    PA (North --> East) is in the range [0, 360[, and with the following
    convention on the subsequent radius r in the profiles (Table 3):
    - for 0<PA<180, r<0 corresponds to the eastern side of the galaxy,
    - for 180<PA<360, r<0 corresponds to the western side,
    - and for PA=0, r<0 is to the North.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label     Explanations
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    1- 9  A9     ---     Name      ! Object identification
   11-13  I3     deg     PA       *! Position angle of slit
   15-20  F6.1   arcsec  r        *! Radius (<0 and >0 on opposite semi-axes)
   22-25  I4     km/s    Vrot     *?=999 Proj. mean stellar rotation velocity
   27-29  I3     km/s  e_Vrot      ?=999 Mean error on V
   31-33  I3     km/s    sigma    *?=999 Projected velocity dispersion
   35-37  I3     km/s  e_sigma     ?=999 Mean error on sigma
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Note on Vrot and sigma:
    Rotation and dispersion velocities are projected along the line of sight;
    rotation values are with respect to the point r=0.
Note on PA and r:
    PA (North --> East) is in the range [0, 360[, and with the following
    convention:
    - for 0<PA<180, r<0 corresponds to the eastern side of the galaxy,
    - for 180<PA<360, r<0 corresponds to the western side,
    - and for PA=0, r<0 is to the North.
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Acknowledgements: Francois SIMIEN <fs@cumulus.univ-lyon1.fr>

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(End)                                         Patricia Bauer [CDS]   22-Jun-2000

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