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7004A: Abell and Zwicky Clusters of Galaxies (Abell+ 1974)

File: abell.dat (Abell Clusters (Abell, 1958; Corwin, 1974))

Instructions:
  1. Select desired fields to view.
  2. If desired, modify ranges of selected fields (ranges of unselected fields are ignored).
    Fields containing some blank values are indicated by a checkbox in the Blanks column. Click off the checkbox if you wish to exclude blank values from a selected field.
  3. Click Create Table to submit.
Abell --- Abell cluster number
n_Abell --- [1/2] '2' if in Abell's statistical sample, '1' if not
RA h min Right Ascension (Eq: 1950.0)
DE deg arcmin Declination (Eq: 1950.0)
Mag10 mag Magnitude of 10th brightest cluster member
DistGroup --- [0/7] Distance group (1)
RichGroup --- [0/5] Richness group (2)
GLON deg Galactic longitude
GLAT deg Galactic latitude
RLamb --- Lambert distance from pole (3)
XLamb --- Lambert X coordinate (3)
YLamb --- Lambert Y coordinate (3)
SGLON deg Supergalactic longitude (de Vaucouleur's system)
SGLAT deg Supergalactic latitude
ClusRad deg Corrected Abell cluster radius
ClusArea deg2 Cluster area computed from ClusRad
Pop ct/deg2 Mean apparent population (galaxies/sq.deg)
Dist Mpc Radial distance to cluster
DistX Mpc X component of Distance
DistY Mpc Y component of Distance
DistZ Mpc Z component of Distance

Authors: Jim Blackwell, Vincent Kargatis, Ed Shaya, Brian Thomas (Raytheon ITSS) [NASA insignia]