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J/ApJS/70/329    IRAS flux densities for early-type galaxies  (Knapp+ 1989)
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Interstellar matter in early-type galaxies. I. IRAS flux densities
     KNAPP G.R., GUHATHAKURTA P., KIM D.-W., JURA M.
    <Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 70, 329 (1989)>
    =1989ApJS...70..329K
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Keywords: galaxies: interstellar matter - infrared: sources

Description: (Abstract of the paper)
    The data from the IRAS satellite were co-added for about 1150
    early-type galaxies with apparent magnitudes brighter than 14mag.
    At 60 and 100micro meter, about 45% of the ellipticals and 68% of
    the S0 galaxies are detected, showing that a large fraction of
    these galaxies contain cool interstellar matter.

Notes:
  * The catalogue archived here is the Table 2 of the paper.
    Note that the flux data have been changed slightly from those in
    the paper.

  * Four typographic errors have been corrected, i.e. N5195, columns 48 and 57;
    N0560, column 74; and N0564, column 74.

  * Following description was originally attached to the software "calc.for":
   "The data for 1153 galaxies are in 'table2'.
    The columns are as in G.R.Knapp et al. 1989, ApJ Suppl 70, 329.
    The IR flux densities are in Jy, the 1 sigma noise in mJy.  These
    are *NOT* corrected for the scale differences.  The program 'calc.for'
    (see the source deck of 'calc.for') does this, rounds them off, and
    performs various manipulations to the optical magnitudes that the user
    may or may not care about.
       The redshifts are from
     RC2 (Sec.Ref.Cat., deVaucouleurs)
     RSA= Rev. Shapley-Ames, Sandage & Tammann 1981, Carnegie
     Davies et al. (see Burstein et al. 87, Ap.J.Suppl. 64,601
                       ('7 Samurai'))
     ZCAT = CfA redshift survey (J.P.Huchra, priv.comm.) "

  * The software "calc.for" needs two input files, i.e. "table2" and
    "types.dat". The latter is not archived here.

  * Performance of the software has not been well tested in CDS.

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
table2          79       1153    IRAS flux densities for early-type galaxies
calc.for        76        262    Software program for correcting for the
                                         scale differences, etc.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2
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 Bytes  Format    Unit     Label    Explanation
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  1-  8  A8       ---      NAME     []! galaxy name
                                      'N' for NGC, 'I' for IC, 'A' for anonymous
                                      others for ESO
  9- 13  A5       ---      TYPE     []! morphological type
 14- 15  I2       h        RAh      []+= right ascension (hours)   (B1950)
 16- 17  I2       min      RAm      right ascension (minutes)
 18- 19  I2       s        RAs      right ascension (seconds)
     21  A1       .        DE-      declination sign
 22- 23  I2       deg      DEd      declination (degrees)     (B1950)
 24- 25  I2       arcmin   DEm      declination (minutes)
 26- 27  I2       arcsec   DEs      declination (seconds)
 29- 32  F4.1     mag      BT       []? total blue magnitude
     33  A1       ---      NOTE     [zb9] notes for the magnitude
                                      'z'=magnitude taken from CGCG
                                      'b' is not used in the paper, but used in
                                          "calc.for".
                                      '9' appears at N1574, probably an error.
 34- 38  I5       km/s     VEL      []? heliocentric velocity
                                       See above description.
 40- 44  F5.2     Jy       S12      [0,] observed equivalent point source flux
                                       density at 12um
 45- 47  I3       mJy      e_S12    rms noise of above
 49- 53  F5.2     Jy       S25      [0,] observed equivalent point source flux
                                       density at 25um
 54- 56  I3       mJy      e_S25    rms noise of above
 58- 63  F6.2     Jy       S60      [0,] observed equivalent point source flux
                                       density at 60um
 64- 67  I4       mJy      e_S60    rms noise of above
 69- 74  F6.2     Jy       S100     [0,] observed equivalent point source flux
                                       density at 100um
 75- 78  I4       mJy      e_S100   rms noise of above
     79  A1       ---      u_S      [:] uncertain because of confusion with a
                                       neighbouring galaxy etc.
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Historical notes:
    The files were provided by courtesy of G.R. Knapp to H. Andernach;
    it was numbered A103 in H. Andernach's "List of Astronomical Catalogues
    and Documents kindly provided on request by various authors"
  20-Oct-1993: First archived.
  16-Apr-1994: Typographic errors in table2 were corrected.
  (The date of the latest archive, see the date of each file.)
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(End)                                        Koichi Nakajima [CDS]   13-Mar-1994

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