VII/39A Bibliography of Surface Photometry of galaxies (Davoust+ 1982)
Detailed bibliography of the surface photometry of galaxies
DAVOUST E., PENCE J.D.
<Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 49, 631 (1982)>
=1982A&AS...49..631D 1982A&AS...49..631D
ADC_Keywords: Bibliography ; Galaxies, optical ; Galaxy catalogs ;
Photometry, surface
Description:
(adapted from the "Documentation for the Machine-Readable Version
of the Detailed bibliography of the surface photometry of galaxies
by Lee E. Brotzman and Robert S. Hill (ADC), SASC-T-1-5810-5006-84,
July 1984)
The bibliography supplies coded information about the methods of
observation and reduction, types of photometric data, limiting surface
brightness, and the general purpose of each paper for about 650
galaxies and 300 references.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
main 98 1248 The bibliography of Surface Photometry
galbyref 80 563 Galaxies sorted by Reference
indexgal 20 702 Index by Galaxies
refs 80 450 References
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: main
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 9 A9 --- Name Galaxy name (1)
10- 11 I2 --- Hubble [-6/10]? Revised numerical Hubble type
as explained in Section 3.2 of RC2
12 A1 --- u_Hubble [*$P] "*"=uncertain, "$"=doubtful,
"P"=peculiar, or blank.
14- 18 F5.2 mag BT ? The total B magnitude, or the corrected
Harvard magnitude as described in
Section 3.2 of RC2
20- 22 I3 --- Ngal ? Number of galaxies in study. (2)
23- 25 I3 --- Nplates ? Total number of plate exposures (3)
27- 29 A3 --- Scale [HML* ] Plate scale of the observations (4)
31- 33 A3 --- Source Source of data (5)
34- 39 F6.1 arcsec Hresol ? Highest resolution or minimum scanning
aperture (6)
40- 45 F6.1 arcsec Lresol ? Lowest resolution, or maximum scanning
aperture (6)
47 A1 --- CalMethod [ABDESU*] Method of calibrating the
magnitude scale zero point. (7)
48- 65 A18 --- PassBands Photometric passbands (8)
67- 70 A4 --- Pub2 Two-dimensional information on galaxy (9)
72- 75 A4 --- Pub1 One-dimensional intensity profiles (10)
77- 80 A4 --- PhotPurp General purpose of photometric study (11)
82- 98 A17 --- Ref The reference (12)
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Note (1):
The name consists of the catalogue designation immediately followed
by the catalogue number (except in the case of a commonly used name).
The catalogue designations are, in order of appearance:
N New General Catalogue (NGC)
I Index Catalogue (IC)
MK Markarian; galaxies with ultraviolet continuum
DDO David Dunlop Observatory dwarf galaxies
VV Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov
LMC, SMC the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
FORNAXDW, SCULP.DW the Fornax and Sculptor dwarf galaxies
A anonymous galaxies not appearing in any of the
above catalogues. The number follows the rules
given in RC2
U Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC)
The last 15 records of the file list the main galaxy clusters
which have been studied (excluding Virgo).
Note (2):
The Number of galaxies may be larger than the number of galaxies with
documented surface photometry in the paper (e.g., Oemler 1976;
de Vaucouleurs and Aguero 1973)
Note (3):
Total number of plate exposures available for the galaxy (sometimes
several exposures may be made on one plate). This is not always the
number of reduced plates, as some may be trailed for orientation
(Ables 1971) or used for visual inspection only.
Note (4): Plate scale of the observations:
H = high (less than 20 arc seconds per mm);
M = medium (between 20 and 50);
L = low (over 50).
The plate scale is sometimes changed with a focal reducer in works
with digital detectors.
An asterisk in byte 27 indicates that the plate scale was not given
in the paper.
Note (5): Source of data:
A = analog two-dimensional measurement of photographic plate
(e.g., Joyce-Loebel, Sabatier effect);
1 = one-dimensional digital scans of plate or film;
2 = two-dimensional digital scanning of the plate or counts of
silver grains;
G = grid of photoelectric photometry measurements;
S = photoelectric drift scans;
D = digital two-dimensional detector (e.g., CCD, IPCS, Vidicon).
An asterisk in byte 31 indicates that the source of the data was
not given in the paper.
Note (6):
Highest and lowest resolution of the photometric maps and profiles, or
minimum and maximum scanning apertures in seconds of arc. The aperture
size is defined as the length of a side of a square aperture, the
geometric mean of the sides of a rectangular aperture, or the diameter
of a circular aperture. This resolution has nothing to do with the
atmospheric seeing.
Note (7): Method is defined as follows:
A = photoelectric aperture photometry;
B = brightness of the night sky (measured photoelectrically or
on another plate);
D = photoelectric drift scans or previously published profiles
of the galaxy;
E = extrafocal images of standard stars;
S = standard stars or other objects;
* = unspecified;
U = uncalibrated.
Note (8): Photometric passbands and corresponding limiting surface
brightness (to the nearest magnitude per square arc second). The bands
are U, B, V, R, I with an additional column (E) for any narrow
emission line band (H ALF, OIII, etc.). Photometric observations in
other systems were forced into the closest band (e.g., J plates are
listed under the B band). For the few papers which will not fit into
this classification scheme we simply list the total number of colours
that were observed (e.g. Swaans 1980, Pronik and collaborators).
The U, B, V, R, I, and E, bands are given in that order, each one
occupying 3 bytes.
Note (9): the two-dimensional information includes:
P = photograph;
D = isodensity tracing;
I = calibrated isodensity tracing or iso-intensity map;
N = numerical intensity or colour index map.
Note (10): the one-dimensional intensity profiles include:
A = major axis;
B = minor axis;
E = equivalent luminosity profile (i.e. surface brightness versus
equivalent radius r* = sqrt(ab);
O = other profile: other position angle, azimuthal luminosity profile,
colour profiles, profile along spiral arm, colour-colour diagrams
of pixels, position angle of isophotes at different intensity levels,
etc.
Note (11): This is not intended to be a complete description of the paper,
but only an indication of some of the main subjects covered.
1. spatial luminosity distribution;
2. dust lanes, absorption, scattering laws;
3. bulge, disk, arms, etc. decomposition;
4. star formation, stellar populations, metallicity;
5. individual objects: HII regions, globular clusters;
6. nucleus, compact objects;
7. ellipticity of isophotes or isophote twists;
8. outer halos, filaments, intergalactic connections;
9. dynamics, rotation, mass/luminosity, mass models;
A. origin, evolution of galaxies;
B. tidal interaction;
C. spectral energy distribution;
D. extragalactic distance scale.
Note (12): The reference is given as the first author, followed by a "+"
if there are any coauthors, and the year of publication. If the galaxy
name in bytes 1-9 is one which appears in another catalogue, a cross
reference to the primary name is listed in this field
(e.g. MK190 = N3928)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: galbyref
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 17 A17 --- Ref Reference, or blank for continuation
21- 80 A60 --- Names *Galaxies from the given reference
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Note on Names: If a galaxy has more than one name, both are included
separated by an "=" sign (e.g., I1613=DDO008). Up to three galaxies
may be given in a record, each in a 20-byte field starting at
byte 21, 41, and 61.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: indexgal
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 9 A9 --- Name Galaxy name
10 A1 --- Alias [A] Alias flag, set to "A" if the galaxy
has another name
12- 15 I4 --- RecNo1 Corresponding first record number in "main"
17- 20 I4 --- RecNo2 Corresponding last record number in "main"
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References (see also file "refs"):
Brosche, P., Einasto, J., Rummel, U. 1974, Veroeff. Astron.
Rechen-Inst., Heidelberg, No. 26.
(RC1) de Vaucouleurs, G., de Vaucouleurs, A. 1964, Reference Catalogue
of Bright Galaxies, Univ. Texas Press, austin, Texas.
(RC2) de Vaucouleurs, G., de Vaucouleurs, A., Corwin Jr., H. 1976,
Second Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies, Univ. Texas Press,
Austin, Texas.
Historical Notes:
* July 1984 (from ADC)
The original tape of the SPG catalogue was supplied to the
Astronomical Data Center (ADC), Goddard Space Flight Center, by the
Centre Donnees Stellaires (CDS), Strasbourg, France in late 1983. This
tape contained the main data file and the reference file, which were
modified at the ADC by deleting blank records, deleting heading
records that did not conform to the formats detailed above, and
stripping off the CDS number placed in the first eight bytes of each
record. The two additional index files, galaxies sorted by reference
and the index by galaxy, detailed above, were added by the authors of
this document at the ADC, and were generated by extracting and sorting
certain fields from the original two files.
* 13-Jun-1995 (at CDS)
The bytes used to express the resolution values Hresol and Lresol
have been expanded from F4.0 to F6.1 to accommodate the large numbers.
(End) Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 13-Jun-1995