J/ApJS/181/233ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/181/233doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.21810233CDSHwang C.-Y.Chang M.-Y.2009-12-10T21:33:36Z2009-12-10T22:25:58ZCDS support team

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

cds-question@unistra.frgalaxy-classification-systemsgalaxiesvisible-astronomycatalogsWe present a new catalog and images of interacting and merging galaxies obtained with morphological identification from Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope observations. We first used a morphological pattern recognition searching routine to select possible candidates, and then visually inspected the images of these candidates to identify true merging/interacting sources. We discover 15147 new pairs of merging galaxies within 422deg^2^ of Red Sequence Cluster Survey 2. Furthermore, we also find nine new candidates of galaxy clusters by searching for regions with significant density enhancements of merging galaxies. This catalog has the largest number of morphologically identified interacting and merging galaxies based on consistent searching criteria. These sources provide a uniform sample of merging galaxies for further photometric and spectroscopic studies of galaxy evolution.2009ApJS..181..233Hhttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/181/233CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toVII/236 : Interacting galaxies catalogue (Vorontsov-Velyaminov+, 2001)B/cfht : Log of CFHT Exposures (CADC, 1979-)J/AJ/127/1883 : Merging galaxies in SDSS EDR (Allam+, 2004)J/ApJ/663/734 : Interacting Galaxies in GEMS and GOODS (Elmegreen+, 2007)J/MNRAS/388/1537 : Galaxy pairs from SDSS-DR2 (McIntosh+, 2008)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/181/233https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/181/233http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/181/233https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/181/233https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/181/233http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/181/233GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/ApJS/181/233/table1 (Catalog of merging galaxies)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/181/233/table1?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/181/233/table1?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/181/233/table1?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true7.53125-2.3334440.0055555555555555564/516 518 1080 1174 1193 1196 1418 2291 5/1516 1530 1861 1862 2055 2060 2061 2063 2070 2076 2359 2365 2401 2402 2403 2408 2409 2410 2537 2538 2539 2880 4302 4324 4328 4329 4413 4414 4415 4456 4458 4459 4491 4493 4494 4501 4507 4510 4516 4528 4530 4533 4534 4536 4537 4544 4677 4679 4685 4687 4690 4691 4700 4743 4747 4749 4751 4760 4762 4763 4769 4771 4781 4783 4788 4792 5667 5676 5678 5761 6533 6534 6577 6730 6731 9069 9070 9071 9153 9155 9156 9157 9158 9161 9170 9171 9176 6/6037 6038 6039 6042 6043 6044 6045 6046 6053 6055 6061 6063 6068 6070 6072 6074 6079 6080 6082 6115 7429 7440 7443 7452 7488 8215 8249 8272 8274 8284 8286 8308 8341 8384 8385 8386 9431 9435 9457 9459 9468 9469 9471 9515 9518 9601 9602 9603 9618 9644 9984 10123 10124 10126 10127 10147 10162 10168 10170 11524 11525 11526 11529 11536 17111 17117 17118 17119 17140 17141 17143 17191 17197 17198 17199 17202 17214 17300 17301 17302 17304 17305 17306 17320 17321 17323 17324 17325 17326 17328 17330 17341 17342 17343 17386 17631 17651 17800 17802 17803 17828 17830 17831 17848 17850 17950 17951 17969 17970 17971 17980 17982 17994 17995 18001 18016 18017 18019 18025 18026 18027 18034 18046 18053 18055 18068 18069 18071 18077 18079 18101 18103 18116 18117 18118 18126 18127 18131 18140 18156 18160 18180 18181 18182 18184 18185 18188 18192 18705 18706 18707 18712 18713 18715 18737 18738 18739 18744 18745 18747 18753 18754 18755 18756 18758 18759 18776 18778 18779 18804 18808 18836 18837 18839 18880 18881 18884 18959 18963 18966 18967 18969 18970 18971 18981 18983 18987 18992 18994 19000 19001 19003 19016 19018 19019 19044 19046 19047 19064 19066 19067 19073 19109 19120 19121 19123 19160 19176 19177 19178 22666 22667 22682 22710 22716 22717 22718 23040 23041 23053 23056 23057 23058 23060 25790 25791 25832 25834 25835 26125 26127 26131 26140 26176 26223 26234 26316 26317 26320 26751 26914 26915 26918 26938 27008 27009 27012 27013 27014 31467 31470 31471 36251 36271 36273 36275 36328 36330 36331 36341 36342 36343 36348 36349 36351 36611 36637 36638 36639 36641 36673 36675 36676 36678 36679 36696 36698 36708 36709 36710 36712 36713 36714 36753 36756 36757https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/ApJS/181/233?format=asciiOpticaldefaultJ/ApJS/181/233/table1Catalog of merging galaxiesrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordint[HC2009]Running identification numbermeta.id;meta.mainintRAJ2000Hour of Right Ascension (J2000)pos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000Degree of Declination (J2000)pos.eq.dec;meta.mainFieldField nameobs.fieldcharTypeMerging type: M=mergers, CP=close pairs, CM=close muptiplessrc.classcharFileNameName of the file containing the image in subdirectory imagesmeta.id;meta.filechar