Spectrophotometric Atlas of Galaxies Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Kennicutt Jr. R.C.
  2. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

This catalog contains 56 spectra: 55 galaxy spectra, and one night sky spectrum, which is included for users wishing to check for low-level spurious features in the galaxy spectra. The file "spectra.dat" contains a summary of the spectra. The user should consult the paper for details of the observations and a discussion of the limitations of the spectrophotometry. The spectra are integrated measurements made with apertures comparable to the diameters of the galaxies. The original spectra have been combined, rebinned to a common wavelength scale, and normalized in flux to unity at a reference wavelength of 555nm. An atmospheric extinction correction has been applied to the data, but otherwise they are not corrected for reddening, redshift, etc. The spectral range covered is 365-710 nm and the resolution is 5-8{AA}. Each spectrum consists in 1726 normalized flux values spaced each 2{AA}, stored as a file in the subdirectory "sp". Tests show that the spectrophotometry is accurate to the few percent level over small wavelength regions, and at the 10% level over the entire wavelength range. Although the data are useful for a variety of applications, the user should be forewarned that they may not be suitable for applications requiring precision colors over a long wavelength baseline (e.g., computation of K-corrections, some spectral synthesis applications).

Keywords
  1. Galaxies
  2. Spectroscopy
  3. Spectrophotometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
1992ApJS...79..255K
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/VII/141
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/141

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=VII/141
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=VII/141
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=VII/141
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/VII/141/spectra?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/VII/141/spectra?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/VII/141/spectra?

History

2004-08-02T14:11:23Z
Resource record created
2004-08-02T14:11:23Z
Created
2017-06-30T05:48:58Z
Updated

Contact

Name
CDS support team
Postal Address
CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
E-Mail
cds-question@unistra.fr