rc3_name_match.sh
Updated: Oct26,2020

Take a list of galaxy names from an input ASCII file and match each galaxy to rc3.9. The output is a list of indexrc3 values in a file named "rc3_name_match.indexrc3". If a name is not matched, then the output index value is "0".


% rc3_name_match.sh --help    

Usage: rc3_name_match.sh list.in N 
arg1 - input file listing FITS headers to survey
arg2 - Run in a debug/verbose mode

If the input list file does not exist, then the code operates in interactive mode.

The rc3gal script I used to use that runs rc3tools to identify RC3 galaxies remains avaliable, but rc3_name_match.sh can be used for this also. Here is a complete example.


% rc3_name_match.sh none N   
*** Running in INTERACTIVE mode. ****

Filling GCATS (names) array
GCATS name array is filled. 

Enter galaxy name (N221, blank to stop): N4618

Catalog name = NGC       number =    4618
indexrc3 = 13769
NGC  4618      
UGC  7853      
VV     73      
PGC 42575      
12:41:33.00 +41:09:03.0   J2000.0        Type = .SBT9..
Bt =    11.22    Ab(gal) =   0.00
Dia (arcmin) =     4.17   b/a =   0.813
V (km/s)     =     592.0
T, (B-V)t, (U-B)t =     9.00     0.44    -0.19

Enter galaxy name (N221, blank to stop):   I enter a blank return to indicate a STOP

This is alll a little klugy compared to the NED and AladinLite tools available on the web. However, this is a self-contained resources that runs in my system without internet access. It is also extrenely fast.

Bleow I show In example I ran in Oct2020 to find the rc2 matches to my PFC image data base. The EX1 table file contains the object card names that were pulled to the file "Object.Names".

 
% ls 
% ls
EX1.images  EX1.parlab	EX1.table  list.pfc  s/
% table_column_pull EX1 object N Object.Names N

% ls
EX1.images  EX1.parlab	EX1.table  list.pfc  Object.Names  s/

% rc3_name_match.sh Object.Names N

% ls
EX1.images  EX1.parlab	EX1.table  list.pfc  Names.Not_Recognized  Object.Names  rc3_name_match.indexrc3 

Names.Not_Recognized  
   Names not matched to RC2 names. Examples of such names are M42, SA96. SN2004da_V, etc...

rc3_name_match.indexrc3
   The 2022 RC3 index numbers for the entries in the EX1 table. If an name was not 
   matched, the a value of "0" is written.

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