CG ivo://nasa.heasarc/cgmw NASA/GSFC HEASARC Saito et al.; Roman et al. 2026-07-24 NASA/GSFC HEASARC help desk heasarc-vo at athena.gsfc.nasa.gov Galaxy This catalog gathers the searches for galaxies of apparent size greater than 0.1 mm on film (6.7" in angular size) lieing behind the Milky Way from photographic surveys in the near-infrared. The four volumes (CGMW1, CGMW2, CGMW3, and CGMW4) cover the galactic longitude ranges from -7 to +43 degrees, and from 210 to 250 degrees. The two volumes, CGMW1 and CGMW2, giving about 7000 galaxies behind the Milky Way between l = 210 degrees and 250 degrees, represent a systematic search for galaxies by means of 32 film copies of the UK Schmidt Southern Infrared Atlas on the Milky Way covering about 900 square degrees. In the search galaxies with apparent sizes greater than 0.1mm on film (6.7 arcsec in size) were detected by visual inspection. The material and procedure of search are described as well as the detectability of galaxies in paper I and paper II appended before Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 of the catalog, respectively, which have been published in Publ. Astron. Soc Japan, Vol. 42 (1990) and Vol. 43 (1991). The parameters of catalogued galaxies are also explained in paper I. Cross-identifications with other catalogs are also given. The third volume CGMW3 lists about 5300 galaxy candidates having sizes larger than 0.1 arcminutes that were found in a search of Schmidt atlases covering a Milky Way region of about 800 square degrees around l = 8 to 43 degrees, and b = -17 to +17 degrees. This surveyed region is located between the northern Local void and the Ophiuchus void. The fourth volume CGMW4 lists about 7150 galaxies and galaxy candidates having sizes larger than 0.1 arcminutes that were found in a search of Schmidt atlases covering a Milky Way region of about 260 square degrees around l = -7 to +16 degrees, and b = -19 to -1 degrees, i.e., a field in Sagittarius in the Galactic Center region. This database was created by the HEASARC in October 1999 based on a machine-readable version that was obtained from the CDS Data Center. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC . 1990PASJ...42..603S https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/cgmw.html Catalog Research served-by HEASARC TAP https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=cgmw& GET text/xml 180 99999 true 92.8519 2.3444 0.0833333333333333 https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/tap https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/getvotable.pl?name=cgmw GET text/xml https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_cgmw&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1 GALAXY CATALOG 0.0833333333333333 Optical public cgmw Candidate Galaxies Behind the Milky Way name Complete Designation meta.id;meta.main char nullable ra Right Ascension degree pos.eq.ra;meta.main double nullable dec Declination degree pos.eq.dec;meta.main double nullable morph_type Morphological Type Class src.morph.type char nullable major_diam Apparent Major Diameter (mm) mm phys.size.smajAxis float nullable minor_diam Apparent Minor Diameter (mm) mm phys.size.sminAxis float nullable "__x_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__y_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__z_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__row" System index column char nullable class Browse Object Classification src.class short nullable over1_field Field Number of Overlapping Plate meta.id;obs.field short nullable plate Schmidt Atlas and Field Number meta.id;obs.field char nullable feature Features of the Object meta.code char nullable field_number Southern Sky Survey Field Number meta.id;obs.field short nullable xpos X Coordinate on the Film (mm) mm pos.cartesian.x double nullable ypos Y Coordinate on the Film (mm) mm pos.cartesian.y double nullable bii Galactic Latitude degree pos.galactic.lat double nullable cgmw Running Number in Volume meta.id short nullable volume Volume Number short nullable over2_field Field Number of Overlapping Plate meta.id;obs.field short nullable ref_survey Name of the Reference Survey char nullable lii Galactic Longitude degree pos.galactic.lon double nullable cross_id Cross-Identification in Other Catalogs meta.id.cross char nullable