Abell Catalogue

Abell Catalogue

The Abell catalog of rich clusters of galaxies is an all-sky catalog of 4,073 rich galaxy clusters of nominal redshift z <= 0.2. This catalog supplements a revision of George O. Abell’s original “Northern Survey” of 1958, which had only 2,712 clusters, with a further 1,361 clusters – the “Southern Survey” of 1989 – from those parts of the south celestial hemisphere that had been omitted from the earlier survey.

Read more about Abell Catalogue:  The Northern Survey, The Southern Survey, Format, Members

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