Revised Flat Galaxy Catalogue (RFGC) Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Karachentsev I.D.
  2. Karachentseva V.E.
  3. Kudrya Y.N.
  4. Sharina M.E.,Parnovsky S.L.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The Flat Galaxy Catalog (FGC) is the result of a systematic search for disk-like edge-on galaxies with a diameter larger than a=40arcsec and major-to-minor axis ratio a/b>7 from Palomar Observatory and ESO/SERC surveys; it contained 4455 objects covering about 56% of the whole sky (Karachentsev et al., 1993AN....314...97K, see Cat. <VII/162>). The main reasons for preparing a new, improved and supplemented catalogue version were the following: - a possibility of remeasuring the coordinates of flat galaxies with a higher accuracy using the Digital Sky Survey; - the inclusion the data about "red" galaxy diameters which were absent earlier; - a reduction the diameters measured on the J and R films of the ESO/SERC to the diameter system of the POSS-I (near to a_25_ system) that eliminated the difference in photometric depth between two parts of the catalogue (Kudrya et al. 1997PAZh...23...15K); - a calculation of total apparent magnitudes (with a standard error about 0.25mag) for all flat galaxies basing on angular diameters, surface brightnesses, and other parameter data (Kudrya et al. 1997PAZh...23..730K); - a possibility to determine the Galaxy absorption values in the region of each flat galaxy placing using new IR data (Schlegel et al. 1998ApJ...500..525S). - a necessity to remove the faults noted during the work with the FGC data. The structural differences between old and new catalogue versions are: - both the parts, FGC and FGCE, have been joined in the RFGC (Revised Flat Galaxy Catalogue) where the galaxies are ranged according to their Right Ascensions for the epoch J2000.0; - the Addendum have been omitted; - the Notes describing concrete object characteristics have been included in the main corpus of the catalogue, some details were omitted; - the lists of identification of the FGC and the FGCE galaxies have been omitted because these data are accessible now due to different galaxy databases (NED, LEDA etc).

Keywords
  1. Galaxies
  2. Catalogs
  3. Galaxy classification systems
  4. Apparent magnitude
Bibliographic source Bibcode
1999BSAO...47....5K
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/VII/219
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/219
Document Object Identifer DOI

Access

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http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=VII/219
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=VII/219
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=VII/219
IVOA Table Access TAP
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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/219/rfgc?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/VII/219/rfgc?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/VII/219/rfgc?

History

2003-01-01T12:08:37Z
Resource record created
2003-01-01T11:09:09Z
Updated
2003-01-01T12:08:37Z
Created

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