Data on the internal kinematics of galaxies are either spatially unresolved, like central or mean velocity dispersion or like HI velocity profile or width, or may be resolved. Catalogues of unresolved kinematics exist. Huchtmeier & Richter (1989) and Paturel et al. (1990; see also Bottinelli et al. 1990) presented compilations of HI width measurements. McElroy (1995) or Prugniel & Simien (1996: hereafter PS96) give central velocity dispersions for the stellar component. A compilation of spatially resolved kinematics has been published by Corradi & Capaccioli (1991), but it is limited to a sample of "normal" spiral galaxies. Busarello et al. (1989) published an atlas of stellar kinematics of early-type galaxies. Finally, a catalogue of maximum rotational velocity of galaxies (stellar kinematics) is published in PS96.
The goal of the present project is to build a catalogue gathering references to all spatially resolved studies, for all galaxies, whatever the gas or stellar component is concerned. The catalogue consists in a list of galaxies for which references to the original papers are given together with a short coded description of the data.
The catalogue has been assembled from merging the lists of Corradi &
Capaccioli (1991) and PS96). A bibliographical list distributed on
the WEB by Demin et al. (1997) has also been used, and we
scanned the literature to add new references. In total, the catalogue
contains 4536 observations of 2207 galaxies referring to 777 published
papers. The largest source is Mathewson et al. (1992)
(
velocity profiles of 970 galaxies) representing about 20%
of the whole catalogue.
The distributions of the number of references and of measurements are shown
in Fig. 1 (click here) as a function of the year of publication.
Figure 1: Content of the catalogue. Distributions of the number of
measurements a) and of the number of references b) compiled in
the catalogue as a function of the year of publication.
References published before 1950 are not seen, and the peak corresponding
to the 970 galaxies measured by Mathewson et al. (1992)
is truncated