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J/ApJ/497/188      A103, A118 and A114 morphological studies (Couch+ 1998)
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Morphological studies of the galaxy populations in distant ``Butcher-Oemler''
clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope.
II. AC 103, AC 118, and AC 114 at z = 0.31.
       Couch W.J., Barger A.J., Smail I., Ellis R.S., Sharples R.M.
      <Astrophys. J. 497, 188 (1998)>
      =1998ApJ...497..188C      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Clusters, galaxy ; Photometry ; Equivalent widths ; Morphology
Mission_Name: HST
Keywords: galaxies: clusters: individual (AC 103, AC 114, AC 118) -
          galaxies: evolution - galaxies: interactions - galaxies: structure

Abstract:
    We present the results of a program to study the detailed morphologies
    of galaxies in intermediate-redshift clusters and hence understand the
    physical origin of the enhanced star formation seen in the
    environments at earlier epochs. Deep, high-resolution imagery has been
    obtained of three rich clusters, AC 103, AC 118 and AC 114 at z=0.31,
    through the R (F702W) filter of the Wide Field Planetary Camera
    (WFPC2) of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

File Summary:
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  FileName        Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
table3.dat        110      131   New spectroscopic results
table4.dat         97      738   Morphological classifications for AC 103,
                                  AC 118, and AC 114
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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-  6  A6    ---     Cluster  Cluster name
   9- 11  A3    ---     Tel      Telescope (1)
  13- 18  A6    ---     Inst     Instrument (2)
  20- 25  A6    ---     HST      HST number (3)
  28- 30  I3    ---     CN84     ? Couch & Newell (1984ApJS...56..143C) number
      31  A1    ---   m_CN84     Multiplicity index on CN84
  33- 35  I3    ---     BAE96    ? Barger et al. (1996MNRAS.279....1B) number
  37- 38  I2    h       RAh      Right ascension (1950)
  40- 41  I2    min     RAm      Right ascension (1950)
  43- 46  F4.1  s       RAs      Right ascension (1950)
      48  A1    ---     DE-      Declination sign
  49- 50  I2    deg     DEd      Declination (1950)
  52- 53  I2    arcmin  DEm      Declination (1950)
  55- 58  F4.1  arcsec  DEs      Declination (1950)
  60- 64  F5.2  mag     Rmag     ? R magnitude
  66- 70  F5.2  mag     K'mag    ? K' magnitude
  72- 75  F4.2  mag     B-R      B-R (or U-i if n_B-R=a) colour index
      76  A1    ---   n_B-R      [a] a: U-I colour index from BAE96
                                         in B-R column
  78- 83  F6.4  ---     z        Redshift
      84  A1    ---   u_z        Uncertainty flag on z (4)
  86- 89  F4.1  0.1nm   EW(3727) ? Equivalent width of [O II] {lambda}3727
                                    emission line
  91- 93  F3.1  0.1nm e_EW(3727) ? rms uncertainty on EW(3727)
  95- 97  F3.1  0.1nm   EW(Hd)   ? Equivalent width of H{delta} absorption line
  99-101  F3.1  0.1nm e_EW(Hd)   ? rms uncertainty on EW(Hd)
 103-110  A8    ---     SpType   Spectral type (5)
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Note (1): AAT: Anglo-Austalian Telescope
          NTT: New Technology Telescope
Note (2): LDSS-1: Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph on AAT
          EMMI: European Multi-Mode Imager/Spectrograph on NTT
Note (3): Identity number of each object in SExtractor catalog derived from our
           WFPC2 images.
          The absence of entry indicates that the object lies outside the
          WFPC2 field.
Note (4): The presence of a colon denotes that the measurement is based on just
           one line emission, assumed in all cases to be [O II] {lambda}3727.
Note (5): Psv(pec): galaxies whose spectra have all the same characteristics
           as the passive types but whose colors are marginally bluer.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label    Explanations
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   1-  6  A6    ---     Cluster  Cluster name
   8- 15  A8    ---     HST      HST number
  17- 19  I3    ---     CN84     ? Couch & Newell (1984ApJS...56..143C) number
      20  A1    ---   m_CN84     Multiplicity index on CN84
  22- 27  F6.1  pix     xpos     X coordinate from HST
  29- 34  F6.1  pix     ypos     Y coordinate from HST
  36- 41  F6.3  mag     R702     R (F702W filter) magnitude
  43- 50  A8    ---     Mtype    Hubble type
  52- 53  I2    ---     MDS      Classifications on the numerical scheme devised
                                  by Glazebrook et al. (1995MNRAS.275...19G) (1)
  55- 63  A9    ---     Status   Int/Merg/Sat (2)
  64- 97  A34   ---     Com      Comments
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Note (1): 0= E
          1= E/S0
          2= S0
          3= Sa-Sb
          4= S
          5= Sc-Sdm
          6= Irr
          7= unclassified object
          8= galaxy merger
         -1= same "compact" morphology as found here
Note (2): I or i: interactive
          M or m: merger
          T or t: tidal evidence
          Sat: galaxies with faint satellites
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History: From the ApJ electronic version

References:
    Couch et al., Paper I.    1994ApJ...430..121C
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(End)                           James Marcout, Patricia Bauer [CDS]  22-Jun-1998

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