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A Face-on Tully-Fisher Relation
We construct the first ``face-on'' Tully-Fisher (TF) relation for 24galaxies with inclinations between 16° and 41°. The enablingmeasurements are integral-field echelle spectroscopy from the WIYN 3.5 mtelescope, which yield accurate kinematic estimates of disk inclinationto ~15°. Kinematic inclinations are of sufficient accuracy that ourmeasured TF scatter of 0.42 mag is comparable to other surveys evenwithout internal absorption corrections. Three of four galaxies withsignificant kinematic and photometric asymmetries also have the largestdeviations from our TF relation, suggesting that asymmetries make animportant contribution to TF scatter. By measuring inclinations below40°, we establish a direct path to linking this scatter to theunprojected structure of disks and making nondegenerate dynamical massdecompositions of spiral galaxies.
| Arcsecond Positions of UGC Galaxies
We present accurate B1950 and J2000 positions for all confirmed galaxiesin the Uppsala General Catalog (UGC). The positions were measuredvisually from Digitized Sky Survey images with rms uncertaintiesσ<=[(1.2")2+(θ/100)2]1/2,where θ is the major-axis diameter. We compared each galaxymeasured with the original UGC description to ensure high reliability.The full position list is available in the electronic version only.
| An image database. II. Catalogue between δ=-30deg and δ=70deg.
A preliminary list of 68.040 galaxies was built from extraction of35.841 digitized images of the Palomar Sky Survey (Paper I). For eachgalaxy, the basic parameters are obtained: coordinates, diameter, axisratio, total magnitude, position angle. On this preliminary list, weapply severe selection rules to get a catalog of 28.000 galaxies, wellidentified and well documented. For each parameter, a comparison is madewith standard measurements. The accuracy of the raw photometricparameters is quite good despite of the simplicity of the method.Without any local correction, the standard error on the total magnitudeis about 0.5 magnitude up to a total magnitude of B_T_=17. Significantsecondary effects are detected concerning the magnitudes: distance toplate center effect and air-mass effect.
| Automatic selection of new Hα emission-line galaxies using MAMA.
A full set of algorithms for the automatic analysis of low-resolutionobjective-prism spectra has been developed with the aim of finding newemission-line galaxies (ELGs) candidates from the UniversidadComplutense de Madrid (UCM) survey prism plates. An objective-prismplate and a direct plate, used for pairing objects and to performstar-galaxy separation, have been scanned with the MAMA machine. Theplates were taken in the red region of the spectrum, using theHα+[NII] blend in emission as selection criterion. The procedure,applied to digitized spectra, is able to automatically select ELGscandidates. Density to intensity transformation has not been used in ourmethod; the detection of the emission is performed applying threeindependent criteria over the one-dimensional spectra in raw data. Theautomatically selected sample is compared with that obtained after acareful visual scan. Spectroscopic observations at moderate spectralresolution are presented for the whole sample of candidates in order tostudy the drawbacks and the biases of both methods.
| A redshift survey of the poor cluster A1142
A nearly complete redshift survey of the galaxy cluster A1142 over a 2sq deg region which includes the central 0.7 Mpc of the cluster ispresented which includes 63 new redshifts. Of the 60 galaxies in theregion brighter than m(v) = 16.5, about 40 percent are either foregroundor background to the cluster. For the 35 cluster members, amass-to-light ratio of 520 solar masses/solar luminosities is derived,consistent with the results for other well-studied systems.
| A survey of galaxy redshifts. IV - The data
The complete list of the best available radial velocities for the 2401galaxies in the merged Zwicky-Nilson catalog brighter than 14.5mz and with b (II) above +40 deg or below -30 deg ispresented. Almost 60 percent of the redshifts are from the CfA surveyand are accurate to typically 35 km/s.
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