Redshifts in the Southern Abell Redshift Survey Clusters. I. The Data

WAY, M. J.; QUINTANA, H.; INFANTE, L.; LAMBAS, D. G.; MURIEL, H.

ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

The University of Chicago Press, Journals Division

Lugar: Chicago; Año: 2005 vol. 130 p. 2012 - 2018

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The Southern Abell Redshift Survey (SARS) contains 39 clusters of galaxies with redshifts in the range 0.0 gt z gt 0.31 and a median redshift depth of z=0.0845. SARS covers the region 0deg gt delta gt-65deg, alpha gt 5h,alpha gt 21h (while avoiding the LMC and SMC), with |b| gt 40deg. Cluster locations were chosen from the Abell and Abell-Corwin-Olowin catalogs, while galaxy positions were selected from the Automatic Plate Measuring Facility galaxy catalog with extinction-corrected magnitudes in the range 15 geq b_J lt 19. SARS used the Las Campanas 2.5 m du Pont telescope, observing either 65 or 128 objects concurrently over a 1.5 deg^2 field. New redshifts for 3440 galaxies are reported in the fields of these 39 clusters of galaxies.