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J/MNRAS/236/207     Galaxy redshift catalogue  (Metcalfe+, 1989)
An extended galaxy redshift survey - I. The catalogue
       Metcalfe N., Fong R., Shanks T., Kilkenny D.
      <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 236, 207 (1989)>
      =1989MNRAS.236..207M      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Redshifts


Description:
    We present redshifts and blue magnitudes for a sample of 264 'field'
    galaxies virtually complete to a limiting magnitude of bj~=16.80mag.
    The galaxies were selected by sampling one galaxy in every three in
    order of apparent magnitude on each of nine high-latitude UK Schmidt
    (UKST) fields. Photometric data were provided by COSMOS machine
    measures of UKST plates, zero-pointed with CCD photometry. The
    spectral data came from observations with the 1.9-m telescope at the
    South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), and the resulting
    radial velocities have a precision of ~±130km/s. This survey
    augments substantially the Durham/AAT redshift survey. In this paper
    we discuss the observational techniques and reduction procedures.

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
table5.dat        84     1134   Catalogue


See also:
    VII/142 : Southern Redshifts (Fairall+ 1991)
    VII/193 : The CfA Redshift Catalogue (Huchra+ 1995)


Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5.dat

   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations

       1  A1    ---     n_Name    [*?] Note on the galaxy (1)
   2-  8  A7    ---     Name      Galaxy name
  11- 12  I2    h       RAh       Right ascension 1950
  14- 15  I2    min     RAm       Right ascension 1950
  17- 20  F4.1  s       RAs       Right ascension 1950
      22  A1    ---     DE-       Declination sign
  23- 24  I2    deg     DEd       Declination 1950
  26- 27  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination 1950
  29- 30  I2    arcsec  DEs       Declination 1950
  33- 37  F5.2  mag     Bj        Bj magnitude
  40- 44  I5    km/s    cz        ? Heliocentric velocity (precision ±130km/s)
  46- 49  F4.1  ---     r         ? Largest r factor found from the
                                     cross-relation (where appropriate) (2)
      50  I1    ---     Nem       ? Number of emission lines used for 
                                     velocity (2)
  52- 56  A5    "MM/YY" Date      ? Observation date
      62  I1    ---     Code      [0-9] See note (3)
  65- 84  A20   ---     Com       Comments (4)

Note (1): the symbols have the following meaning:
        * Indicates galaxy with superimposed star.
        ? This object has a stellar spectrum but is clearly diffuse on the
             plate.
Note (2): only one of the two numbers, r or Nem, is provided.
          r is the ratio of the height of the true peak to the average peak
            in a(x). For more details, see Tonry & Davies (1979AJ.....84.1511T).
Note (3): the numbers mean the following:
       0: emission line velocity
       1, 2 and 3: cross-correlation quality ratings in section 4.2
       4: no redshift could be obtained from the spectrum
       5: the one object whose redshift we took from RC2 Cat. VII/112
       6: galaxies which have velocities, but are not in the one-third
          sampling criterion
       9: two-thirds whose redshifts we did not attempt to measure
Note (4): Any alternative designation for the objects (e.g. NGC number) is
           given here. Also, emission-line redshifts are given for those objects
           which showed emission but whose cross-correlation velocities were
           adopted for the survey.
  note E: Emission line velocities for objects whose cross-correlation
           velocities were deemed more reliable. The number of emission lines
           on which the measure is based is given in brackets.


Acknowledgements:
     It is a pleasure to thank Heinz Andernach who communicated the 
     results of his own cross-checking and suggested an enhanced 
     presentation of the data file.

History:
  * March 1996: Prepared via OCR at CDS.
  * November 1996: Cross-checked versus printed table and corrected,
(End)                       Marie-Jose Wagner, Patricia Bauer [CDS]  25-Oct-1996