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J/other/PASA/16.113   New structure in Shapley supercluster  (Drinkwater+, 1999)
New structure in the Shapley supercluster
    Drinkwater M.J., Proust D., Parker Q.A., Quintana H., Slezak E.
   <Publications - Astron. Soc. Australia, 16, 113 (1999)>
   =1999PASA...16..113D
ADC_Keywords: Clusters, galaxy ; Radial velocities

Keywords: galaxies: clusters, distances and redshifts -
          large-scale structure of universe

Abstract:
    We present new radial velocities for 306 bright (R<16) galaxies in a
    77°2 region of the Shapley supercluster, measured with the
    FLAIR-II spectrograph on the UK Schmidt Telescope. The galaxies we
    measured were uniformly distributed over the survey area, in contrast
    to previous samples which were concentrated in several rich Abell
    clusters. Most of the galaxies (230) were members of the Shapley
    supercluster: they trace out two previously unknown sheets of galaxies
    linking the Abell clusters of the supercluster. In a 44°2 area
    of the supercluster excluding the Abell clusters, these sheets alone
    represent an overdensity of a factor of 2.0±0.2 compared to a
    uniform galaxy distribution. The supercluster is not flattened in the
    Declination direction as has been suggested in previous papers. Within
    our survey area the new galaxies contribute an additional 50% to the
    known contents of the Shapley supercluster, with a corresponding
    increase in its contribution to the motion of the Local Group.

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
table2.dat        90      306  *Galaxies observed
table3.dat        37       44  *Abell clusters in the Shapley region

Note on table2.dat and table3.dat: Objects are identified as
        [DPP99] HHMMSS.s+DDMMSS in Simbad.


See also:
   J/AJ/110/463    : Kinematics of the Shapley supercluster (Quintana+ 1995)
   J/A+AS/119/329  : VR photometry in the Shapley Supercluster (Slezak+, 1996)
   J/A+AS/120/357  : R magnitudes in four ESO fields (Infante+, 1996)
   J/A+AS/125/247  : Shapley Concentration galaxies velocities (Quintana+ 1997)
   J/MNRAS/296/599 : A3558 complex redshifts (Bardelli+, 1998)


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

   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations

   1-  2  I2    h       RAh       Right ascension (B1950) (corrected)
   4-  5  I2    min     RAm       Right ascension (B1950) (corrected)
   7- 10  F4.1  s       RAs       Right ascension (B1950) (corrected)
      12  A1    ---     DE-       Declination sign (B1950) (corrected)
  13- 14  I2    deg     DEd       Declination (B1950) (corrected)
  16- 17  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination (B1950) (corrected)
  19- 20  I2    arcsec  DEs       Declination (B1950) (corrected)
  22- 24  I3    ---     Field     Field number
  26- 30  F5.2  mag     Rmag      R magnitude
  32- 36  I5    km/s    RV        Radial velocity (corrected)
  38- 40  I3    km/s    e_RV      rms uncertainty on RV (corrected)
      42  A1    ---     n_Note    [*] corrections in 2004PASA...21...89D
  44- 90  A47   ---     Note      Corrections from 2004PASA...21...89D (1)

Note (1): Some corrections, for positions or velocity, were published in
          Drinkwater et al., 2004PASA...21...89D.

  Corrections (table2 of 2004PASA...21...89D)
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  B1950 from D99       New J2000            Old RV       New RV    Type of
                                                                  correction
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  13 04 08.4 -37 06 37 13 06 56.1 -37 22 09                       position
  13 12 05.7 -33 29 36 13 14 52.8 -32 45 27                       position
  13 14 37.9 -33 39 08 13 17 26.2 -33 55 36                       position
  13 15 21.3 -31 45 59 13 18 08.7 -32 01 06                       position
  13 18 06.6 -27 47 20 13 20 52.8 -28 13 06                       position
  13 19 39.1 -33 06 29 13 22 28.0 -33 29 03                       position
  13 24 21.4 -37 00 34 13 27 13.1 -36 25 34                       position
  13 24 28.2 -36 49 27 13 27 10.4 -37 05 00                       position
  13 29 40.1 -33 54 18 13 32 31.3 -33 09 42                       position
  13 31 39.7 -36 33 12 13 34 33.1 -36 48 32  15274 150   2398 17  velocity
  13 33 21.5 -36 38 27 13 36 15.3 -36 53 45  15135  51   3897 79  velocity
  13 35 47.0 -34 17 07                                            removed  *
  13 37 15.1 -34 05 41 13 30 06.0 -34 21 10                       position
  13 40 52.6 -34 49 27 13 43 46.5 -35 04 30  16227 183  14681 71  velocity
  13 42 33.6 -36 31 58 13 45 29.1 -36 46 59  11531  64   7633 80  velocity
  13 43 08.2 -33 29 39 13 46 01.4 -33 44 39  11662  44  24838 61  velocity
  13 43 32.6 -35 50 50                                            removed  *
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Note: *: Original position was wrong, but the correct
            identification could not be determined


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

   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations

   1-  2  I2    h       RAh       Right ascension (B1950)
   4-  5  I2    min     RAm       Right ascension (B1950)
   7-  8  I2    s       RAs       Right ascension (B1950)
      10  A1    ---     DE-       Declination sign (B1950)
  11- 12  I2    deg     DEd       Declination (B1950)
  14- 15  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination (B1950)
  17- 18  I2    arcsec  DEs       Declination (B1950)
  20- 24  I5    km/s    cz        ? Heliocentric radial velocity
  26- 32  A7    ---     Name      Name
      34  I1    ---     Dist      ? Distance in Abell radius
  36- 37  A2    ---     Ref       Reference (1)

Note (1): References are as follows:
      I = Quintana et al. (1995, Cat. J/AJ/110/463, Paper I)
     II = Quintana et al. (1997, Cat. J/A+AS/125/247, Paper II)
      N = NASA/IPAC, Extragalactic Database (NED)
      B = Bardelli et al. (1998, Cat. J/MNRAS/296/599)


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(End)                         James Marcout, Patricia Bauer [CDS]    31-Mar-2000