J/MNRAS/236/207 J/MNRAS/236/207 Galaxy redshift catalogue N Metcalfe R Fong T Shanks D Kilkenny Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 236 207 1989 1989MNRAS.236..207M VII/142 : Southern Redshifts (Fairall+ 1991) VII/193 : The CfA Redshift Catalogue (Huchra+ 1995) Galaxy catalogs Redshifts We present redshifts and blue magnitudes for a sample of 264 'field' galaxies virtually complete to a limiting magnitude of bj~=16.80mag. The galaxies were selected by sampling one galaxy in every three in order of apparent magnitude on each of nine high-latitude UK Schmidt (UKST) fields. Photometric data were provided by COSMOS machine measures of UKST plates, zero-pointed with CCD photometry. The spectral data came from observations with the 1.9-m telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), and the resulting radial velocities have a precision of ~+/-130km/s. This survey augments substantially the Durham/AAT redshift survey. In this paper we discuss the observational techniques and reduction procedures.

n_Name Note on the galaxy number=1 * Indicates galaxy with superimposed star. ? This object has a stellar spectrum but is clearly diffuse on the plate. --- Name Galaxy name --- RAh Right ascension 1950 h RAm Right ascension 1950 min RAs Right ascension 1950 s DE- Declination sign --- DEd Declination 1950 deg DEm Declination 1950 arcmin DEs Declination 1950 arcsec Bj Bj magnitude mag cz Heliocentric velocity (precision +/-130km/s) km/s r Largest r factor found from the cross-relation (where appropriate) number=2 only one of the two numbers, r or Nem, is provided. r is the ratio of the height of the true peak to the average peak in a(x). For more details, see Tonry & Davies (1979AJ.....84.1511T). --- Nem Number of emission lines used for velocity number=2 only one of the two numbers, r or Nem, is provided. r is the ratio of the height of the true peak to the average peak in a(x). For more details, see Tonry & Davies (1979AJ.....84.1511T). --- Date Observation date "MM/YY" Code See note number=3 0: emission line velocity 1,2 and 3: cross-correlation quality ratings in section 4.2 4: no redshift could be obtained from the spectrum 5: the one object whose redshift we took from RC2 Cat. <VII/112> 6: galaxies which have velocities, but are not in the one-third sampling criterion 9: two-thirds whose redshifts we did not attempt to measure --- Com Comments number=4 Any alternative designation for the objects (e.g. NGC number) is given here. Also, emission-line redshifts are given for those objects which showed emission but whose cross-correlation velocities were adopted for the survey. note E: Emission line velocities for objects whose cross-correlation velocities were deemed more reliable. The number of emission lines on which the measure is based is given in brackets. --- Marie-Jose Wagner, Patricia Bauer CDS 1996Oct25It is a pleasure to thank Heinz Andernach who communicated the results of his own cross-checking and suggested an enhanced presentation of the data file. UNKNOWN UNKNOWN * March 1996: Prepared via OCR at CDS. * November 1996: Cross-checked versus printed table and corrected, J_MNRAS_236_207.xml