A catalog of Kazarian galaxies

TL;DR

This paper presents a comprehensive catalog of 706 Kazarian galaxies with detailed optical, infrared, and redshift data, clarifying previous misidentifications and providing a valuable resource for galaxy studies.

Contribution

It offers the first extensive, multi-wavelength, and corrected catalog of Kazarian galaxies, integrating new measurements with literature data and clarifying previous misidentifications.

Findings

Catalog includes 706 Kazarian galaxies with detailed parameters.

Redshifts are available for 404 galaxies.

Infrared magnitudes from 2MASS are included for 598 galaxies.

Abstract

The entire Kazarian galaxies (KG) catalog is presented which combines extensive new measurements of their optical parameters with a literature and database search. The measurements were made using images extracted from the STScI Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) of Jpg(blue), Fpg(red) and Ipg(NIR) band photographic sky survey plates obtained by the Palomar and UK Schmidt telescopes. We provide accurate coordinates, morphological type, spectral and activity classes, blue apparent diameters, axial ratios, position angles, red, blue and NIR apparent magnitudes, as well as counts of neighboring objects in a circle of radius 50 kpc from centers of KG. Special attention was paid to the individual descriptions of the galaxies in the original Kazarian lists, which clarified many cases of misidentifications of the objects, particularly among interacting systems. The total number of individual Kazarian objects in the database is now 706. We also include the redshifts which are now available for 404 galaxies and the 2MASS infrared magnitudes for 598 KG. The database also includes extensive notes, which summarize information about the membership of KG in different systems of galaxies, and about revised activity classes and redshifts. An atlas of several interesting subclasses of KG is also presented.