J/A+AS/130/323 ESO Slice Project (Vettolani+ 1998) ================================================================================ The ESO Slice Project (ESP) galaxy redshift survey: III. The Sample Vettolani G., Zucca E., Merighi R., Mignoli M., Proust D., Zamorani G., Cappi A., Guzzo L., Maccagni D., Ramella M., Stirpe G.M., Blanchard A., Cayatte V., Collins C., McGillivray H., Maurogordato S., Scaramella R., Balkowski C., Chincarini G., Felenbok P. =1998A&AS..130..323V (SIMBAD/NED BibCode) ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Surveys ; Radial velocities Keywords: galaxies: distances and redshifts - cosmology: observations ; large-scale structure of the Universe Description: The ESO Slice Project (ESP) is a galaxy redshift survey in a region near the South Galactic Pole (see Vettolani et al., 1997A&A...325..954V; Zucca et al., 1997A&A...326..477Z). It extends over a strip 22(RA)x1(DEC) square degrees, plus a nearby area of 5x1 square degrees, 5 degrees west of the main strip. The right ascension limits are 22h30m and 01h20m, at a mean declination of -40{deg}15' (B1950). We have covered this region with a regular grid of adjacent circular fields, with a diameter of 32arcmin each, corresponding to the field of view of the multifiber spectrograph OPTOPUS at the 3.6m ESO telescope. The total solid angle of the spectroscopic survey is 23.2 square degrees. The galaxy catalogue has been extracted from the Edinburgh-Durham Southern Galaxy catalogue (Heydon-Dumbleton et al., 1989MNRAS.238..379H) which has been obtained from COSMOS (MacGillivray & Stobie, 1984VA.....27..433M) scans of SERC J survey plates. The number of objects in the photometric ESP sample is 4487. The spectroscopic survey is about 85% complete to the limiting magnitude bJ=19.4, and consists of 3342 galaxies + 1 QSO with redshift determination. The ESP survey is intermediate between shallow, wide angle samples and very deep, one--dimensional pencil beams. Table 2 lists the fields observed with OPTOPUS and their properties: the numbers listed in this table can be used to compute the redshift completeness of each fields, following eq.(2) of the paper. Table 3 provides the catalogue, with galaxies sorted in right ascension. The catalogue with additional information and updates can also be found at the following URL: http://boas5.bo.astro.it/~cappi/esokp.html File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table2.dat 54 107 OPTOPUS fields table3.dat 70 4487 Catalogue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: http://boas5.bo.astro.it/~cappi/esokp.html : the database J/A+A/342/1 : ESO Slice Project. VI. Groups of Galaxies. (Ramella+ 1999) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2- 4 I3 --- Field OPTOPUS field number as in paper 8- 9 I2 h RAh Right ascension (B1950) 11- 12 I2 min RAm Right ascension (B1950) 14- 17 F4.1 s RAs Right ascension (B1950) 21 A1 --- DE- Declination sign 22- 23 I2 deg DEd Declination (B1950) 25- 26 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (B1950) 28- 29 I2 arcsec DEs Declination (B1950) 33- 34 I2 --- Nt No. of objects classified as galaxies in the photometric catalogue 38- 39 I2 --- Nz No. of measured redshifts 43- 44 I2 --- Nno No. of not observed objects 48- 49 I2 --- Nf No. of failed spectra 53- 54 I2 --- Ns No. of stars -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3- 7 I5 --- ESP ESP galaxy number as in paper 10- 12 I3 --- Field OPTOPUS field number as in paper 15- 16 I2 h RAh Right ascension (B1950) 18- 19 I2 min RAm Right ascension (B1950) 21- 24 F4.1 s RAs Right ascension (B1950) 27 A1 --- DE- Declination sign 28- 29 I2 deg DEd Declination (B1950) 31- 32 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (B1950) 34- 35 I2 arcsec DEs Declination (B1950) 38- 42 F5.2 --- bJmag bJ magnitude 45- 49 I5 km/s HRVa ?=0 Heliocentric radial velocity from absorption lines (1) 51- 53 I3 km/s e_HRVa ?=0 Error on absorption line velocity 55- 59 F5.2 --- R ?=0 R parameter value from cross-correlation 62- 66 I5 km/s HRVe ?=0 Heliocentric radial velocity from emission lines (1) 68- 70 I3 km/s e_HRVe ?=0 Error on emission line velocity -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Codes in the velocity column: -8888 = failed radial velocity measurement -9999 = stellar spectrum (hence stars misclassified in the EDSGC) 99999 = only for the object #31954, a QSO with z=1.174 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgements: Elena Zucca References: Vettolani et al., Paper I. 1997A&A...325..954V Zucca et al., Paper II. 1997A&A...326..477Z Cappi et al., Paper IV. 1998A&A...336..445C Scaramella et al. Paper V. 1998A&A...334..404S ================================================================================ (End) Patricia Bauer [CDS] 26-Mar-1998