What's New with NED

(Latest Revision: 27 March 2008)

Welcome to the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED).

Highlights of Data and Features Recently Added to NED.

Data for nearly 300,000 objects linked to 1448 journal articles and catalogs, redshifts for about 215,000 objects, 0.5 million multiwavelength cross-IDs, and nearly 1.7 million photometric measurements have been added to NED since the previous public release. Highlights include:

214,687 detailed redshift data frames from 55 published papers and catalogues including

2002AJ....123..567S, 2003AJ....126.2579S, 2005AJ....130..367S, and 2007AJ....134..102S, Schneider et al: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog, Papers 1-4;
2003AJ....125.1817B, Bernardi et al: Early-Type Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. The Sample;
1998A&AS..130..323V, Vettolani et al: The ESO Slice Project (ESP) galaxy redshift survey. III. The Sample;
2005ApJS..160..149S, Springob et al: A Digital Archive of H I 21 Centimeter Line Spectra of Optically Targeted Galaxies;
2004A&A...421..913W, Wolf et al: A catalogue of the Chandra Deep Field South with multi-colour classification and photometric redshifts from COMBO-17;
2004ApJS..150....1B, Benitez et al: Faint Galaxies in Deep Advanced Camera for Surveys Observations;
2000ApJS..130..237T, Tucker et al: Loose Groups of Galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey;
2003AJ....126.2268W, Wegner et al: Redshift-Distance Survey of Early-Type Galaxies: Spectroscopic Data;
2000A&A...355..900D, Drinkwater et al: The Fornax Spectroscopic survey. I; and
2001AJ....121...66S, Salzer et al: THE KPNO INTERNATIONAL SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY. II. H{alpha}-SELECTED SURVEY LIST 1.

200,089 NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS) Bootes objects from 2007ApJS..169...21C, Cool, R.J.: zBootes: z-Band Photometry in the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey Bootes Field
36,121 GALEX UltraViolet objects from 2007ApJ...664...53A, Atlee, D. W. and Gould, A.: Photometric Selection of QSO Candidates from GALEX Sources
13,825 MaxBCG clusters and Brightest Cluster Galaxies in the SDSS from 2007ApJ...660..239K, Koester et al: A MaxBCG Catalog of 13,823 Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
4,667 galaxies in the direction of Abell 3526 2007ApJS..170...95C, Chiboucas, K. and Mateo, M.: The Luminosity Function of Nearby Galaxy Clusters. I
2,478 VERA radio sources from 2007AJ....133.2487P, Petrov et al: VERA 22 GHz Fringe Search Survey
625 SDSS-C4 galaxy clusters from 2007MNRAS.379..867V, Von der Linden et al: How special are brightest group and cluster galaxies?
143 galaxies in Abell 0773 from 2007A&A...467...37B, Barrena et al: Internal dynamics of the radio halo cluster Abell 773: a multiwavelength analysis

Latest review papers LEVEL 5 Knowledgebase for Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology:

POPULATIONS OF X-RAY SOURCES IN GALAXIES - G. Fabbiano (2006)
OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF DUST - Aigen Li (2007)
DUST IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI - Aigen Li (2007)
MOLECULES IN GALAXIES - Alain Omont (2007)
PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS: SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES - G. Steigman (2006)
THEORETICAL OVERVIEW OF COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPY - Edward L. Wright (2004)

Highlights of recent additions to photometry:

Radio: 730 objects from 2007AJ....133.2569G in the Arecibo 1.4 GHz band.
Sub-mm: 36 objects from 2007ApJ...660.1198Y in the CSO 350 micron band.
NIR: 62 objects from 2007ApJ...660..167D in the Spitzer 24 micron band.
Far-infrared: 87 objects from 2004ApJ...605..156G in the MIRLIN 10.8 micron band.
Optical: 35592 objects from 2007ApJ...664...53A in the USNO BR bands.
UV: 130 objects from 2007ApJ...666..757S in the CIV 1549 A band.
XRay: 420 objects from 2007ApJS..170..175B in the INTEGRAL 20-40 and 40-100 keV bands.

Recent additions to NED's image database

222 K-band images from 2005MNRAS.360..587B, Balogh et al: Near-infrared imaging of 222 nearby H-delta-strong galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
RGB images for 506 galaxies from 2004PASP..116..133L, Lupton et al: Preparing Red-Green-Blue Images from CCD Data
UV images for 27 galaxies from 2007ApJ...659..162T, Taylor-Mager et al: Dependence of Galaxy Structure on Rest-Frame Wavelength and Galaxy Type
Spitzer IRAC and MIPS, and ground-based BVRI and H-alpha images for the 75 galaxies in the SINGS sample described in 2003PASP..115..928K, Kennicutt et al: SINGS: The SIRTF Nearby Galaxies Survey

Recent additions to NED's database of spectra

2112 HI spectra for galaxies in LEDA from 1998A&AS..130..333T, Theureau et al: Kinematics of the local universe. VII. New 21-cm line measurements of 2112 galaxies
Spitzer IRS and ground-based optical spectra for the 75 galaxies in the SINGS sample described in 2003PASP..115..928K, Kennicutt et al: SINGS: The SIRTF Nearby Galaxies Survey

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