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J/MNRAS/368/651      A3653 galaxies redshift catalogue         (Pimbblet+, 2006)
The large peculiar velocity of the cD galaxy in Abell 3653.
    Pimbblet K.A., Roseboom I.G., Doyle M.T.
   <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 368, 651-658 (2006)>
   =2006MNRAS.368..651P    (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Clusters, galaxy ; Redshifts

Keywords: catalogues - surveys - galaxies: clusters: individual: Abell 3653 -
          galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD -
          galaxies: kinematics and dynamics

Abstract:
    We present a catalogue of galaxies in Abell 3653 from observations
    made with the 2-degree field (2dF) spectrograph at the
    Anglo-Australian Telescope. Of the 391 objects observed, we find 111
    are bona fide members of Abell 3653.

Description:
    Our observations for this work come from 2dF spectroscopy. These
    observations are entirely performed in service mode on the
    Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT),meaning that we have a mixture of
    gratings (300B and 270R), and physical conditions.

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
catalog.dat       57      391   The final redshift catalogue for all objects
                                 observed in the direction of Abell 3653 with a
                                 quality flag of 3 or 4.


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

   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations

   1-  3  A3    ---     ---       [PRD]
   4-  6  I3    ---     PRD       PRD number
   9- 10  I2    h       RAh       Right ascension (J2000)
  12- 13  I2    min     RAm       Right ascension (J2000)
  15- 19  F5.2  s       RAs       Right ascension (J2000)
      21  A1    ---     DE-       Declination sign (J2000)
  22- 23  I2    deg     DEd       Declination (J2000)
  25- 26  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination (J2000)
  28- 31  F4.1  arcsec  DEs       Declination (J2000)
  33- 37  F5.2  mag     Rmag      APM R magnitude
  39- 45  F7.4  ---     z         Heliocentric redshift
  47- 51  F5.2  ---     TDV       Tonry & Davis (1979AJ.....84.1511T) value (1)
      53  I1    ---     q_z       [3/4] Quality flag on z (2)
  55- 57  A3    ---     Memb      [yes] Abell 3653 member ?

Note (1): Usually, the best template spectra that provides the best redshift is
           the one with the highest TDV.
Note (2): Quality flag as follows:
           4 = certain redshift (all spectral features, both emission and
                absorption are in the correct place, the spectra has a good
                signal to noise ratio and/or TDV with an obvious single
                cross-correlation peak).
           3 = spectra that is very probably correct [it has many or all of the
                spectral features in the right locations and a reasonable
                signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio]


Acknowledgements: Kevin Pimbblet, pimbblet(at)physics.uq.edu.au

(End)                                      Patricia Vannier [CDS]    08-Jun-2006