WBL Poor Galaxy Clusters Catalog (White et al. 1999)

The Catalog of Nearby Poor Clusters of Galaxies of White et al. (1999), also known as the WBL Catalog, is a catalog of 732 optically selected, nearby poor clusters of galaxies covering the entire sky north of -3 degrees declination. The poor clusters, called WBL clusters, were identified as concentrations of three or more galaxies with photographic magnitudes brighter than 15.7, possessing a galaxy surface overdensity of 10^(4/3). These criteria are consistent with those used in the identification of the original Yerkes poor clusters, and this new catalog substantially increases the sample size of such objects. These poor clusters cover the entire range of galaxy associations up to and including Abell clusters, systematically including poor and rich galaxy systems spanning over 3 orders of magnitude in the cluster mass function. As a result, this new catalog contains a greater diversity of richness and structures than other group catalogs, such as the Hickson and Yerkes catalogs. This table contains the entries for the clusters (given in Table 2 of the published catalog) and includes redshift data (where available) and cross-references to other group and cluster catalogs. The WBLGALAXY table (q.v.) contains the entries for the individual galaxies in the clusters which ere given in Table 3 of the published catalog. The WBL table was created by the HEASARC in July 2002 based on CDS Catalog J/AJ/118/2014 (the file table2.dat). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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Creator White et al.
Publisher NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Publication Year 2024
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Physics