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VII/72        Catalog of Stellar Velocity Dispersions         (Whitmore+ 1985)
A Catalog of Stellar Velocity Dispersions. I. Compilation and Standard Galaxies
    Whitmore B.C., McElroy D.B., Tonry J.
   <Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser.  59, 1 (1985)>
   =1985ApJS...59....1W
ADC_Keywords: Spectroscopy ; Velocity dispersion ; Galaxies, rotation


Description:
    A catalog of central stellar velocity dispersion measurements is
    presented, current through 1984. The catalog includes 1096
    measurements of 725 galaxies. A set of 51 standard galaxies is
    defined which consists of galaxies with at least three reliable,
    concordant measurements.

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
adopted.dat       23      724   The catalogue of adopted velocity dispersions
sources.dat      115     1096   Source data
refs.dat          58       74   References


See also:
    VII/26 : Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC) (Nilson 1973)
   VII/112 : RC2 Catalogue (de Vaucouleurs+ 1976)


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

   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations

   1- 12  A12    ---     Galaxy   Galaxy name
  13- 17  A5     ---     MType    Morphological type
      18  A1     ---     r_MType *[*] Reference of MType
  21- 23  I3     km/s    VelDisp  Adopted velocity dispersion

Note on r_MType:
       * = from UGC (Nilson 1973, Uppsala Ann. 6, Cat. VII/26)
   blank = from RC2 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1976, Cat. VII/112)


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

   Bytes Format  Units   Label      Explanations

   1- 12  A12    ---     Galaxy     Galaxy name
  13- 17  A5     ---     MType      Morphological type
      18  A1     ---     r_MType   *[*] Reference of MType as above
      20  A1     ---     l_VelDisp  Limit Flag on VelDisp
  21- 23  I3     km/s    VelDisp    ? Original velocity dispersion
  25- 27  I3     km/s    e_VelDisp  ? Quoted mean error on VelDisp
      33  I1     ---     ExtProf   *[0/2] Indicator measured extd vel dispersion
      34  A1     ---     n_FWHM    *[-] unit flag FWHM
  35- 39  F5.1   ---     FWHM       ? of the narrowest comparison line
                                      (in km/s or A/mm depending on n_FWHM)
  42- 45  F4.1   arcsec  dim1       ]0/16]? Slit width
  48- 51  F4.1   arcsec  dim2       ]0/36]? Slit length
  53- 54  I2     ---     TelSite    [1/28]? Code related to the instrument
                                      (place and telescope)
  56- 57  I2     ---     Det        [1/16]? Code related to the detector and
                                      technique
  59- 62  I4     pix     Pixels     [180/2048]? Number of pixels in spectra
  64- 67  I4     0.1nm   lambda1    [3300/8450]? Lower wavelength range
  69- 72  I4     0.1nm   lambda2    [4200/8750]? Upper wavelength range
  74- 78  A5     ---     r_Galaxy   Source of the data
  84- 85  I2     ---     Ttype      [-7/6]? Numerical galaxy class
                                      (de Vaucouleurs index)
  91- 95  I5     km/s    Vel        ? Radial velocity of the Galaxy
 101-105  F5.2   mag     Mag        ? Magnitude of the galaxy
     106  A1     ---     r_Mag     *[*] Reference of the magnitude, as
                                      for r_MType
 109-115  A7     ---     Other      Other designation of the galaxy

Note on r_MType, r_Mag:
       * = from UGC (Nilson 1973, Uppsala Ann. 6, Cat. VII/26)
   blank = from RC2 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1976, Cat. VII/112)
Note on ExtProf:
   Indicator
   1 - the authors measured extented velocity dispersion profiles
   0 - the authors did not measure extended velocity disp profiles
   2 - only a few measurements in the outer regions are available
Note on n_FWHM:
   Indicator of unit in which FWHM is expressed:
    -     = for 0.1nm/mm
    blank = for km/s


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

   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations

   1-  5  A5    ---     Ref       Reference code
   8-  9  A2    ---     in        [in ] indicates a reference quoted
  11- 29  A19   ---     BibCode   19-digit bibcode
  31- 58  A28   ---     Note      Authors when necessary


History:
  * 10-Jun-1994: First documentation prepared at CDS
  * 13-May-1997: Documentation standardized
  * 03-Aug-2004: List of references added at CDS
(End)   Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 10-Jun-1994 ; Paul Kuin [ADC]      13-May-1997