VII/68A Dark Nebulae and Globules for l=240-360deg (Feitzinger+ 1984) ================================================================================ Catalogue of Dark Nebulae and Globules for Galactic Longitudes 240 to 360 degrees. Feitzinger J.V., Stuewe J.A. (Erratum) =1984A&AS...58..365F (SIMBAD/NED BibCode) ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Globules ; Nebulae ; Description: (adapted from Anne C. Raugh, NASA STI-T-1-5810-508-86) The catalog is a compilation of data gleened from a study of the European Southern Observatory Quick Blue Survey (ESO(b)) and SRC-J Sky Atlas on 489 dark clouds and 331 globules. The data compiled include position, size, opacity and morphological classification (in the system of van den Bergh, 1972). Also included is a FITS file containing a 500x1400 pixel map of the survey area. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file darkneb 110 489 The Dark Clouds globules 110 331 The Globules skymap.dat 500 1400 *Map of survey area as numbers skymap.fit 2880 488 FITS Map of survey area -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note on skymap.dat: image of the survey area where each byte represents one pixel and holds a grey-level value in the range 0-6, 0 being clear and 6 most opaque. Pixels are separated by 0.1 degree in both latitude and longitude. Byte-by-byte Description of file: darkneb globules -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 3 I3 --- FEST Running Number 6- 8 I3 --- Field Field number in ESO/SRC Survey 10- 12 A3 --- Foil Foil (SRC) or Plate (ESO) (1) 14- 17 A4 --- Seq Number in field (2) 18- 19 A2 --- Desc Two-letter code description (3) 22- 27 F6.2 deg GLON Galactic longitude of center 29- 34 F6.2 deg GLAT Galactic latitude of center 37- 38 I2 h RAh Right Ascension 1950 (hours) 40- 43 F4.1 min RAm Right Ascension 1950 (minutes) 46 A1 --- DE- Declination 1950 (sign) 47- 48 I2 deg DEd Declination 1950 (degrees) 50- 51 I2 arcmin DEm Declination 1950 (minutes) 53- 58 F6.3 deg2 Area ? Area (for dark nebulae) 59- 60 I2 --- Mult ? Number of globules ("globules" file) (8) 62 I1 --- OpClass [1/6] Opacity class (4) 63- 67 A5 --- Class van den Bergh Classification (5) 70- 72 I3 deg i [-90/90]? Galactic inclination angle (6) 75- 80 F6.1 mm Xmm [-260/1300] X-plate coordinate 82- 87 F6.1 mm Ymm [-260/300] Y-plate coordinate 90-120 A31 --- Ident Cross-references (7) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): In general, the SRC-J foils were the primary source of data and the corresponding ESO(B) glass plates were used as a validity check. When the foil was not available the plate became the primary source. "ESO" indicates the data were taken from the ESO(B) glass plate of the survey field. "SRC" indicates the data were taken from the SRC-J foil of the survey field. Note (2): Generally this is an integer, but in two cases (both globular filaments) this is a Roman numeral, right-justified within the character field. Note (3): the two-letter code describing the appearance of the object: CG Cometary globule DC Dark cloud DF Dark filament EN Embedded in (bright) nebulosity GF Globular filament ST Worm track or elephant trunk (equivalent to WT) TA Tail of a cometary globule WT Worm track or elephant trunk (equivalent to ST) Note (4): Opacity on a scale of 1 to 6, 6 being the most opaque. Note (5): van den Bergh classification scheme consists of four different classes, each denoted by a single Greek letter: ALPHA Amorphous cloud exhibiting very fuzzy or indistinct edges BETA Clouds with some structure and relatively well-defined edges GAMMA Absorption features with sharp edges which are not located in H II regions DELTA Sharp-edged absorption features located in H II regions For objects that fall between classes, the Greek letters are abbreviated as A B G D respectively. For some cometary globules the head and tail have distinct opacities and van den Bergh classifications. Note (6): Inclination angle of elongated dark clouds measured counterclockwise against the galactic plane,:eq. in degrees. Note (7): Cross references consist in two-letter code followed by an up to three-digit number that identifies the object as also being listed in the reference denoted by the letter code. SL Sandqvist and Lindroos S Sandqvist (1977) CG Zealy et al. (1983) The numbers are those of the object in the cited paper. In some cases the object appeared in more than one paper, in which case there are two or more full references, or appears more than once in a single paper, in which case the additional numbers are separated by commas (for example, the cross-reference for dark nebula number 225 is S 155,157) Note (8): if the object is actually a complex of globules, Mult is the number of individual globules. The coordinates given refer to the approximate center of the entire complex. References: Feitzinger, J. V. and Stuewe, J. A. 1984, Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 58, 365 Sandqvist, Aa. 1977, Astron. Astrophys. 57, 467 van den Bergh, S. 1972, Vistas in Astron. 13, 265 Zealy, W. J., Ninkov, Z., Rice, E., Hartley, M., and Tritton, S. B. 1983, Astrophys. Letters 23, 119 Historical Notes: * 1986 (Anne C. Raugh, ADC): The catalogue was sent to the Astronomical Data Center (ADC), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, by the Centre de Donnees Astronomiques (CDS), in February 1986. The original tape contained four text files formatted in the same manner as in the published catalog. The catalog was so well formatted that the only editing done was to correct several minor typographic errors and to replace the character string "---" indicating a null value for the inclination field, with a string of blanks, in order to avoid errors in trying to read that field with a FORTRAN I5 format. A FORTRAN program was run that checked the validity of each field according to its data type and value. * 13-Jun-1995: standardised at CDS, and homogenized the formats of the two files "darkneb" and "globules" such that they share the same "Byte-by-Byte description" ================================================================================ (End) Anne C. Raugh [ADC] Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 13-Jun-1995