Galaxy Properties from a Diameter-Limited Catalog

By Juan Enrique Cabanela Larrinaga (August 1999)

Resources Related to this Thesis:

A PDF (9.6 MB) version of this thesis is available.
- Errata: There are some typos/errors that I discovered post-publication in my thesis. The most egregious are on pages 162-164 that were the result of an attempt to move some figures around, the errors mangle the meaning of what I am trying to get across. The above PDF copy of my thesis has "comments" added correcting the errors. I don't believe these comments print by default, but they are viewable when looking at the document on your computer.
The MAPS-NGP Catalog of 217,768 galaxies on POSS I plates within 30 degrees of the North Galactic Pole is now available online! Be warned, the catalog is gigantic, about 65 Megabytes uncompressed. More details on the MAPS-NGP are available here.
- The MAPS-NGP Catalog (gzipped ASCII format) ( 22.4MB): Be sure to read the MAPS-NGP catalog README ( 11KB) first, as it describes the catalog and its contents. Details on the construction of the MAPS-NGP can be found in Chapter 5 of my Ph.D. Thesis.
There are two previously published papers included in this Ph.D. thesis. The refereed versions of these papers can be obtained online through the links below:
- "Determination of Galaxy Spin Vectors in the Pisces-Perseus Supercluster with the Arecibo Telescope", Cabanela, J.E. and Dickey, J. 1999, AJ, 118, 46.: This paper outlined our technique for measuring spin vectors of galaxies with HI diameters smaller than the Arecibo beam resolution.
- "Galaxy Alignments in the Pisces-Perseus Supercluster -- Revisited," Cabanela, J.E. and Aldering, G. 1998, AJ, 116, 1094.: This paper introduced the MAPS-PP galaxy catalog. The MAPS-PP catalog data is available online through Vizier.