The MCG database contains the "Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies," a compilation of information for approximately 34,000 galaxies found and examined on the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS). Individual identifiers are assigned for about 29,000 galaxies and information on the remaining 5,000 is present in the extensive notes of the published catalogs (Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al. 1962-1968). The catalog is structured according to the POSS zones and is numbered from +15 (corresponding to +90 deg) to +01 (+06 deg zone) and +00 (equatorial zone) to -05 (-30 deg zone); the fields are numbered with increasing right ascension. The original goal of the compilation was to be complete for galaxies brighter than magnitude 15.1, but the final catalog lists many objects considerably fainter. Information given in the original printed volumes includes: cross- identifications to the NGC (Dreyer 1888) and IC (Dreyer 1895, 1908) catalogs, equatorial coordinates for 1950.0, magnitude, estimated sizes and intensities of the bright inner region and the entire object, estimated inclination, and coded description (by symbols) of the appearance of the galaxy. Each field is then followed by notes on individual objects. All of the above data except the coded description are included in the machine version, except that special coding (e.g. for uncertainty or source designation) is not present (other than for the NGC/IC cross identifications [added at the Astronomical Data Center for this machine version]). Although the notes are not computerized, the presence of a note in the original is flagged in the machine version Detailed descriptions of modifications, corrections and the record format are provided for the machine-readable version of the "Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies" (Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al. 1962-68); see the Additional Information section below. In addition to hundreds of individual corrections, a detailed comparison of the machine-readable with the published catalog resulted in the addition of 116 missing objects, the deletion of 10 duplicate records, and a format modification to increase storage efficiency. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

This table contains the Chandra X-ray point source catalogs for 9 Hickson Compact Groups (HCGs, 37 galaxies) at distances of 34 to 89 Mpc. The authors perform detailed X-ray point source detection and photometry and interpret the point source population by means of simulated hardness ratios. They thus estimate X-ray luminosities (L_X) for all sources, most of which are too weak for reliable spectral fitting. For all sources, they provide counts, count rates, power-law indices (Gamma), hardness ratios, and L_X, in the full (0.5-8.0 keV), soft (0.5-2.0 keV) and hard (2-8 keV) bands. In their paper, the authors use optical emission-line ratios from the literature to re-classify 24 galaxies as star-forming, accreting onto a supermassive black hole (AGNs), transition objects, or low-ionization nuclear emission regions. Two-thirds of their galaxies have nuclear X-ray sources with Swift/UVOT counterparts. Two nuclei have full-band X-ray luminosities >= 10⁴² erg s^-1, are strong multi-wavelength AGNs, and follow the known alpha_OX - nu L_nu(near-UV)_ correlation for strong AGNs. Otherwise, most nuclei are X-ray faint, consistent with either a low-luminosity AGN or a nuclear X-ray binary population, and fall into the 'non-AGN' locus in alpha_OX - nu L_nu(near-UV)_ space, which also hosts other normal galaxies. Each group was observed at the aim point of the back-illuminated S3 CCD of Chandra's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS), with the exception of HCG 90, which was observed with the ACIS-I array. The details of the 9 Chandra observations analyzed herein are given in Table 1 of the reference paper. The full details of the X-ray analysis and point source detection procedures are given in Section 3 of the reference paper. This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2014 based on electronic versions of Tables 2 and 3 from the reference paper which were obtained from the ApJS web site. Some of the values for the name parameter in the HEASARC's implementation of this table were corrected in April 2018. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

The COSMOS2015 catalogue contains precise photometric red-shifts and stellar masses for more than half a million objects over the 2 deg^2 COSMOS field. Including YJHKs images from the UltraVISTA-DR2 survey, Y-band from Subaru/Hyper-Suprime-Cam and infrared data from SPLASH Spitzer Legacy program, this near-infrared selected catalogue is highly optimised for the study of galaxy evolution and environments in the early Universe.

This table contains a catalog of galaxy clusters selected via their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signature from 2500 deg² of South Pole Telescope (SPT) data. This work represents the complete sample of clusters detected at high significance in the 2500 deg² SPT-SZ survey, which was completed in 2011. A total of 677 (409) cluster candidates are identified above a signal-to-noise threshold xi of 4.5 (5.0). Ground- and space-based optical and near-infrared (NIR) imaging confirms overdensities of similarly colored galaxies in the direction of 516 (or 76%) of the xi > 4.5 candidates and 387 (or 95%) of the xi > 5 candidates; the measured purity is consistent with expectations from simulations. Of these confirmed clusters, 415 were first identified in SPT data, including 251 new discoveries reported in this work. The authors estimate photometric redshifts for all candidates with identified optical and/or NIR counterparts; they additionally report redshifts derived from spectroscopic observations for 141 of these systems. The mass threshold of the catalog is roughly independent of redshift above z ~ 0.25 leading to a sample of massive clusters that extends to high redshift. The median mass of the sample is M_500c(rho_crit) ~ 3.5x10¹⁴ M_sun h₇₀^-1, the median redshift is z_med = 0.55, and the highest-redshift systems are at z > 1.4. The combination of large redshift extent, clean selection, and high typical mass makes this cluster sample of particular interest for cosmological analyses and studies of cluster formation and evolution. The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10m diameter telescope located at the National Science Foundation Amundsen-Scott South Pole station in Antarctica. From 2008 to 2011 the telescope was used to conduct the SPT-SZ survey, a survey of ~ 2500 deg² of the southern sky at 95, 150, and 220 GHz. The survey covers a contiguous region from 20h to 7h in Right Ascension and -65 to -40 degrees in Declination (see, e.g., Figure 1 in Story et al. 2013, ApJ, 779, 86) and was mapped to depths of approximately 40, 18, and 70 microK-arcmin at 95, 150, and 220 GHz, respectively. The authors use optical and in some cases NIR imaging (Blanco Telescope, Magellan/Baade, Magellan/Clay, Swope, MPG/ESO, New Technology Telescope, Spitzer, WISE) to confirm candidates as clusters and to obtain redshifts for confirmed systems (see section 4 of the reference paper for more details). They have also used a variety of facilities to obtain spectroscopic observations of the SPT clusters (including VLT/FORS2 & Gemini/GMOS-S). This HEASARC table contains the total of 677 cluster candidates which were identified above a signal-to-noise threshold of xi = 4.5 in the 2500 deg² SPT-SZ survey. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2015 based on an electronic version of Table 4 from the reference paper which was obtained from the CDS as their catalog J/ApJS/216/27 file table4.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .