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CO Observations of Galaxies 1985-1989
Verter F.
<Pub. Astron. Soc. Pacific, 102, 1281, (1990)>
=1990PASP..102.1281V
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ADC_Keywords: Bibliography; Galaxy catalogs; CO; References
Description:
In this catalog a complete list of new publications which include CO
observations of external galaxies has been edited so that new
observations are reported only once, preferably in refereed journals
(pub.dat). Therefore the catalog of publications also serves as an
inventory of distinct observational projects.
This catalog lists all publications that have appeared since the
submission of Verter (1985) and before the end of 1989. For each
publication, the number and nature of the observations are summarized.
Introduction:
This paper is a five year update to the Verter (1985) catalog of CO
observations of galaxies. The goal of the present catalog is to give an
overview of recent research on extragalactic molecular gas, as conducted
through observations of emission from CO isotopes. This overview is
intended to cover the number of galaxies observed, the nature of the
observations, the number of individuals involved, the telescopes used,
the degree of international, multi-observatory, and multi-wavelength
collaboration, etc. The heart of the catalog is a complete inventory
(Table 1) of research projects incorporating CO observations of galaxies
which were published in 1985 - 1989, and a summary of their contents
(Table 2).
The Verter (1985) catalog contained all observations of CO isotopes in
galaxies that were published, or available to the author in preprint
form, prior to summer 1984. It contained data from 84 papers. The data
were listed by individual galaxy; there were 94 galaxy detections and
approximately 200 upper limits known at that time.
The present catalog lists all published reports containing new
observations of CO isotopes in galaxies that have appeared since the
Verter (1985) catalog, through the end of 1989. This includes work which
was incorporated in Verter (1985) in preprint form and was subsequently
published. No preprints are included in the present catalog because it
is too difficult to compile a complete listing of submitted work. This
catalog contains 142 publications. The number of galaxies with CO
detections is now approximately = 650, too large to list individually.
Publication List:
pub.dat is an alphabetical listing of the 142 publications containing
observations of CO isotopes in galaxies. For each article, the reference
and the title are provided. A comment in parentheses indicates those
articles which were incorporated in Verter (1985) in preprint form.
pub.dat was compiled with three goals:
(1) to be as complete as possible in recording CO observations of
galaxies,
(2) to avoid repetition, and (3) to emphasize refereed publications.
The completeness of the catalog is fairly easy to insure. Initially,
pub.dat was developed over the past five years by perusing the
literature on a regular basis and maintaining a list of articles that
referred to molecular observations of galaxies. Finally, the completeness
of the list was checked by going through the yearly indices of the
refereed journals Ap. J., Astron. and Ap., A. J., M.N.R.A.S., and Pub.
Astron. Soc. Japan, as well as the subject index of Astronomy and
Astrophysics Abstracts.
Preventing repetition of data in the catalog is a more difficult matter.
The only insurance that the same data is not covered more than once is
to read all of the articles and become familiar with their contents. In
this manner it becomes obvious if the same observations were reported
under different permutations of the authors' names or in different
contexts. pub.dat only lists publications which present new
observations, and does not include analyses of previously reported data.
For example, pub.dat lists Verter (1987), which derives a luminosity
function from reported observations, but does not list Verter (1988),
which uses the same observations in a correlation study.
Because of the preference for refereed journal articles, the following
types of research reports appear in pub.dat only if they have not been
superseeded by a refereed journal article on the same project: Ph.D.
theses, conference proceedings, B.A.A.S. abstracts, articles in the ESO
Messenger, etc. When non-refereed sources are cited, only one,
preferably most recent, report will be listed for a given project.
There is one set of exceptions to the above rules, made on behalf of the
Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (FCRAO) Extragalactic CO
Survey. This survey is a multi-year effort to observe CO(1-0) emission
in a large and complete sample of galaxies. The selection criteria are:
all galaxies at declination above -20deg. with B(T) < 12 mag, or 100
microns IR flux density > 10 Jy, or 60 microns IR flux density > 5 Jy.
The FCRAO Survey is by far the largest source of new galaxy detections
in CO; by the beginning of 1990 about 270 galaxies had been observed,
and about 2/3 of them detected (Young, private communication). Strictly
speaking, these detections have been reported in one publication, Young
etal. (1989). However, pub.dat lists almost all refereed publications
which analyze subsets of this data, even though there is substantial
overlap between their samples.