The search was performed by undergraduate students of a galactic astronomy program in Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University, in 1988 and 1989. Since the main researchers changed from the search in 1988 ( Vol. 1 ) to that in 1989 ( Vol. 2 ), a surface brightness level deter- mining the extents of galaxy images somewhat differs between Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, yielding a difference of mean number densities of the detected galaxies between Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. The difference is examined in paper II. The detectability of galaxies, especially of smallest galaxies, increased in the overlap zones of adjacent fields of the Atlas; the effects are discussed in a paper ( Yamada and Saito 1991, to appear in Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan, Vol. 43 ). In spite of such inhomogeneities in search for galaxies, the catalog is useful as a finding list of bright galaxies, peculiar galaxies, and nearby clusters of galaxies in the region behind the Milky Way.
The machine-readable version of the catalog has been made through efforts of Mr. Shogo Nishida, Mr. Tadafumi Takata, and Professor Shiro Nishimura. This will be distributed upon request from Astronomical Data Analysis Center of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and other astronomical data centers.
This work was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (01420002) of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture.
June 1991 Mamoru Saito
Reference :
Contribution from the Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University, No. 300
File Summary :
File Content Format Record Length Number of Records
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1 Description FB 80 111
2 Data (Vol. 1) FB 125 2411
3 Data (Vol. 2) FB 125 4633
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Byte-by-Byte Description of the Data Files ( the Second and Third Files ) :
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Bytes Format Notes
1 - 4 I4 CGMW number
5 - 7 I3 Field number of the ESO/SERC Southern Sky Survey
8 - 13 F6.1 X coordinate on the film in millimeter
14 - 19 F6.1 Y coordinate on the film in millimeter
20 - 21 I2 Hours of R.A. ( Epoch 1950.0 )
22 - 23 I2 Minutes of R.A.
24 - 25 I2 Seconds of R.A.
26 A1 Sign of declination
27 - 28 I2 Degrees of declination
29 - 32 F4.1 Minutes of declination
33 - 39 F7.3 Galactic longitude in degrees
40 - 46 F7.3 Galactic latitude in degrees
47 - 49 F3.1 Major diameter on the film in millimeter
50 - 52 F3.1 Minor diameter on the film in millimeter
53 - 55 A3 Morphological type class
( E : Elliptical, I : Irregular, S : Spiral,
SB : Barred Spiral )
56 - 65 A10 Feature
( Bright, Faint : for suface brightness,
Asymm, Ring : for morphology,
Pair, Triple : for close association ( If
accompanying galaxies are almost in the
same position, they are not listed in the
catalog. ),
PN+galaxy : a foreground planetary nebula
overlaps a galaxy )
66 - 125 A60 Cross identifications in other catalogs
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The generation of machine-readable files and the data validation are carried
out by the collaboration of authors and the Astronomical Data Analysis Center
of the National Astronomical Observatory, Japan.
ADS Astronomy Abstract Service
Title: A Search for Galaxies behind the Milky Way at Aquila
and Sagittarius
Authors: ROMAN, ADEL T.; NAKANISHI, KOUICHIRO; TOMITA, AKIHIKO;
SAITO, MAMORU
Affiliation: AA(Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Kyoto
University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-01})
Journal: Publ. of the Astronomical Society of Japan, v.48,
p.679-690.
Publication Date: 10/1996
Origin: PASJ
PASJ Keywords: GALAXIES: CLUSTERS OF, GALAXIES: GENERAL, GALAXIES:
LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE, GALAXIES: MILKY WAY, GALAXIES:
SEARCH
Abstract Copyright: (c) 1996: Astronomical Society of Japan
Bibliographic Code: 1996PASJ...48..679R