J/AJ/144/127ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/144/127doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51440127CDSAmores E.B.Sodre L.Minniti D.Alonso M.V.Padilla N.Gurovich S.,Arsenijevic V.Tollerud E.J.Rodriguez-Ardila A.Diaz Tello J.,Lucas P.W.2013-11-16T07:41:56Z2013-10-31T13:19:49ZCDS support team

CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

cds-question@unistra.frgalaxiescatalogsinfrared-photometryVISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) is an ESO variability survey that is performing observations in near-infrared bands (ZY JHK_s_) toward the Galactic bulge and part of the disk with the completeness limits at least 3mag deeper than Two Micron All Sky Survey. In the present work, we searched in the VVV survey data for background galaxies near the Galactic plane using ZY JHK_s_ photometry that covers 1.636deg^2^. We identified 204 new galaxy candidates by analyzing colors, sizes, and visual inspection of multi-band (ZY JHK_s_) images. The galaxy candidate colors were also compared with the predicted ones by star count models considering a more realistic extinction model at the same completeness limits observed by VVV. A comparison of the galaxy candidates with the expected one by Millennium simulations is also presented. Our results increase the number density of known galaxies behind the Milky Way by more than one order of magnitude. A catalog with galaxy properties including ellipticity, Petrosian radii, and ZY JHK_s_magnitudes is provided, as well as comparisons of the results with other surveys of galaxies toward the Galactic plane.2012AJ....144..127Ahttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/144/127CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toVII/233 : The 2MASS Extended sources (IPAC/UMass, 2003-2006)VII/242 : LEDA galaxies with DENIS measurements catalog (Paturel+, 2005)J/A+A/554/A123 : NIR catalog of Galactic novae in VVV survey areaJ/A+A/552/A74 : NIR photometry of Galactic PNe with VVV SurveyJ/A+A/532/A131 : New Galactic star clusters in VVV survey (Borissova+, 2011)J/A+A/505/1049 : Parkes HI observations behind Milky Way (Schroeder+, 2009)J/A+A/505/29 : HI observations of 2MASS galaxies in ZoA (van Driel+, 2009)J/A+A/466/481 : Near-infrared survey around PKS 1343-601 (Schroeder+, 2007)J/ApJ/662/224 : Second CIZA subsample (Kocevski+, 2007)J/AJ/134/2398 : Stellar SEDs in SDSS and 2MASS filters (Covey+, 2007)J/MNRAS/369/1131 : Structures in the GA region (Radburn-Smith+, 2006)J/A+A/415/9 : Redshifts behind the Southern Milky Way (Woudt+, 2004)J/AJ/128/16 : HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalog (Koribalski+, 2004)J/MNRAS/354/980 : Near-infrared survey around PKS 1343-601 (Nagayama+, 2004)J/AJ/124/1954 : 1000 brightest HIPASS galaxies catalog (Ryan-Weber+, 2002)J/A+A/391/887 : Redshifts in the Hydra/Antlia ExtensionJ/A+A/380/441 : Galaxies behind Southern Milky Way. II. (Woudt+, 2001)J/A+AS/141/123 : Galaxies behind Southern Milky Way. I. (Kraan-Korteweg 2000)J/A+A/352/39 : Great Attractor region redshifts (Woudt+, 1999)J/A+AS/127/463 : Crux region redshifts (Fairall+ 1998)J/A+A/297/617 : Hydra/Antlia extension redshifts (Kraan-Korteweg+, 1995)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/144/127https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/144/127http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/144/127https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/144/127https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/144/127http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/144/127GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/AJ/144/127/table2 (Galaxy candidates properties)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/144/127/table2?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/144/127/table2?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/144/127/table2?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true184.04452561-63.822367820.0055555555555555566/43009 43010 43011 43016 43017 430188.643406281242892e-20 2.393642124494231e-19https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/AJ/144/127?format=asciiInfrareddefaultJ/AJ/144/127/table2Galaxy candidates propertiese_Ymag? Uncertainty in Ymagmagstat.error;phot.mag;em.opt.BfloatnullablerecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintSeqRunning sequence numbermeta.id;meta.mainintGLONGalactic longitudedegpos.galactic.lonGLATGalactic latitudedegpos.galactic.latZmag? VISTA Z band magnitudemagphot.mag;em.opt.Ifloatnullablee_Zmag? Uncertainty in Zmagmagstat.error;phot.mag;em.opt.IfloatnullableYmag? VISTA Y band magnitudemagphot.mag;em.IR.JfloatnullableJmag? VISTA J band magnitudemagphot.mag;em.IR.Jfloatnullablee_Jmag? Uncertainty in Jmagmagstat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.JfloatnullableHmag? VISTA H band magnitudemagphot.mag;em.IR.Hfloatnullablee_Hmag? Uncertainty in Hmagmagstat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.HfloatnullableKmag? VISTA Ks band magnitudesmagphot.mag;em.IR.Kfloatnullablee_Kmag? Uncertainty in Kmagmagstat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.KfloatnullableRadSource Petrosian radiuspixphys.angSize;srcfloate[0/1]? Source ellipticitysrc.ellipticityfloatnullablePA[0/180]? Ellipse position angledegpos.posAng;pos.errorEllipsefloatnullableC[1/2] Object classification from this work (1)meta.code.classint_RA.icrsRight ascension (ICRS) (computed by VizieR, not part of the original data)degpos.eq.ranullableindexed_DE.icrsDeclination (ICRS) (computed by VizieR, not part of the original data)degpos.eq.decnullableindexed