A Catalog of Galaxies behind the Southern Milky Way. - I. The Hydra/Antlia Extension (l: 266 - 296 deg)
Renee C. Kraan-Korteweg (University of Guanajuato, Mx)

TL;DR
This paper presents a catalog of 3279 galaxies discovered behind the southern Milky Way, significantly reducing the Zone of Avoidance and revealing large-scale structures and galaxy properties in a previously obscured region.
Contribution
It provides the first comprehensive optical galaxy catalog for the Hydra/Antlia extension of the Zone of Avoidance, including detailed properties and cross-identifications, aiding future extragalactic studies.
Findings
Identification of 3279 galaxy candidates with most previously uncatalogued
Detection of galaxy overdensities and filaments uncorrelated with Galactic extinction
Establishment of a basis for future redshift and velocity field analyses
Abstract
A deep optical galaxy search in the southern Milky Way - aimed at reducing the width of the Zone of Avoidance - revealed 3279 galaxy candidates above the diameter limit of D > 0.2 arcmin, of which only 112 (3.4%) were previously catalogued. The surveyed region (266 < l < 296 and -10 < b < +8) lies in the extension of the Hydra and Antlia clusters - where a supercluster is suspected - and in the approximate direction of the dipole anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation. Here we present the optical properties of the unveiled galaxies such as positions, diameters, magnitudes, morphological types, including a detailed discussion on the quality of these data and the completeness limits as a function of the foreground dust extinction. For 127 of the 227 positional matches in the IRAS PSC, a reliable cross-identification could be found. Several distinct overdensities and…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAstronomy and Astrophysical Research · Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena · Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
