The Properties of Ultraviolet-Luminous Galaxies at the Current Epoch

Summary

This page contains a link to the table referenced in "The Properties of Ultraviolet-Luminous Galaxies at the Current Epoch" by Heckman et al. (2004), a paper in the special GALEX edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The table contains entries for 74 galaxies.

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Below is an explanation of the columns in the table, with the format statement followed by a brief description. Please see the paper for more details, or contact heckman@pha.jhu.edu.

 Fortran    Description
 Format    
   A24       SDSS Name  
   A18       SDSS SpecObjID  
  F8.4       R. A. (degrees) 
  F8.4       Dec. (degrees) 
  F5.3       redshift  
  F5.2       log of FUV luminosity (L_sol) 
  F5.2       seeing-corrected half-light radius in the SDSS u filter (kpc) 
  F5.2       seeing-corrected half-light radius in the SDSS r filter (kpc) 
  F5.2       FUV surface brightness (L_sol/kpc^2) 
  F5.2       stellar mass from Salim et al. 2004 method (M_sol) 
  F4.2       A_FUV from Salim et al. 2004 method 
  F5.2       Star formation rate from Salim et al. 2004 method (M_sol/yr)  
  F4.2       FUV-r color 
  F4.2       Amplitude of 4000 Angstrom break (a "0.00" indicates no measurement) 
  F4.2       12 + log (O/H) from Pettini & Pagel 2004 method (a "0.00" indicates no measurement) 
  F4.2       12 + log (O/H) from Brinchmann et al. 2004 (a "0.00" indicates no measurement) 
    I3       sigma of forbidden lines (km/s)