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J/A+A/467/1025  JHK photometry of Fornax red giant branch   (Gullieuszik+, 2007)
Near-infrared observations of the Fornax dwarf galaxy. I. The red giant branch.
    Gullieuszik M., Held E.V., Rizzi L., Saviane I., Momany Y., Ortolani S.
   <Astron. Astrophys. 467, 1025 (2007)>
   =2007A&A...467.1025G
ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, nearby ; Photometry, CCD ; Photometry, infrared ;
              Stars, giant
Keywords: galaxies: dwarf - galaxies: individual: Fornax - Local Group -
          galaxies: stellar content

Abstract:
    We present a study of the evolved stellar populations in the dwarf
    spheroidal galaxy Fornax based on wide-area near-infrared
    observations, aimed at obtaining new independent estimates of its
    distance and metallicity distribution. Assessing the reliability of
    near-infrared methods is most important in view of future space- and
    ground-based deep near-infrared imaging of resolved stellar systems.

Description:
    The catalogues of the upper red giant branch stars in Fornax dwarf
    Spheroidal galaxy are obtained from ground-based SOFI@NTT
    observations. The shallow catalogue is obtained from a mosaic of 16
    SOFI fields and covers an area of 18.5x18.5arcmin. The deep catalogue
    covers an area of 4.5x4.5arcmin.

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
table2.dat        52    11377   JHK shallow photometry
table3.dat        52     1894   JHK deep photometry


See also:
   J/A+A/459/423    : VI and [Fe/H] of Fornax dSph RGB stars (Battaglia+, 2006)
   J/MNRAS/344/188  : BVI photometry in Fornax cluster galaxies (Karick+, 2003)
   J/PASP/110/533   : BR photometry of Fornax bright stars (Stetson+ 1998)


Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat table3.dat

   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations

   2-  6  I5    ---    [GHR2007]  Identification number (1)
   9- 10  I2    h       RAh       Hour of right ascension (J2000)
  12- 13  I2    min     RAm       Minute of right ascension (J2000)
  15- 19  F5.2  s       RAs       Second of right ascension (J2000)
      21  A1    ---     DE-       Sign of the declination (J2000)
  22- 23  I2    deg     DEd       Degree of declination (J2000)
  25- 26  I2    arcmin  DEm       Arcminute of declination (J2000)
  28- 31  F4.1  arcsec  DEs       Arcsecond of declination (J2000)
  33- 38  F6.3  mag     Jmag      ?=99.999 Johnson J band magnitude
  40- 45  F6.3  mag     Hmag      ?=99.999 Johnson H band magnitude
  47- 52  F6.3  mag     Kmag      ?=99.999 Johnson K band magnitude

Note (1): Simbad nomenclature:
     [GHR2007] Shallow NNNNN in table2
     [GHR2007] Deep NNNN in table3


Acknowledgements:
    Marco Gullieuszik, marco.gullieuszik(at)oapd.inaf.it

History:
  * 23-Apr-2007: Original version
  * 03-Aug-2007: Corrected coordinates given by the author (Marco Gullieuszik).
       The original version can be retrieved in the "v00" subdirectory.
(End)                                        Patricia Vannier [CDS]  23-Apr-2007