A photometric catalogue of galaxies in the cluster Abell 85 ^*,**

¹ Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, BP. 229, F-06304 Nice Cedex 4, France
² Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 98bis Bd. Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
³ DAEC, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris VII, CNRS (UA 173), F-92195 Meudon Cedex, France
⁴ CAI et Observatoire de Paris, 61 avenue de l'Observatoire, F-75014 Paris, France
⁵ Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 823, P-4150 Porto, Portugal

Received: 28 May 1997
Accepted: 11 June 1997

Abstract

We present two catalogues of galaxies in the direction of the rich cluster ABCD 85. The first one includes 4232 galaxies located in a region from the cluster centre. It has been obtained from a list of more than 25000 galaxy candidates detected by scanning a Schmidt photographic plate taken in the B_J band. Positions are very accurate in this catalogue but magnitudes are not. This led us to perform CCD imaging observations in the V and R bands to calibrate these photographic magnitudes. A second catalogue (805 galaxies) gives a list of galaxies with CCD magnitudes in the V and R bands for a much smaller region in the centre of the cluster. These two catalogues will be combined with a redshift catalogue of 509 galaxies (Durret et al. 1997) to investigate the cluster properties at optical wavelengths (Durret et al., in preparation), as a complement to our previous X-ray studies (Pislar et al. 1997; Lima-Neto et al. 1997).