Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 05-Dec-2023)

Result of query: info cati FCSS$

Details on Acronym:   FCSS
  
FCSS   (Fornax Cluster Spectroscopic Survey)
 Write:<<FCSS  JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS>>
 N:  about 7000
Object:?  (SIMBAD class: Unknown = Object of Unknown Nature)
  Note:The Fornax Spectroscopic Survey is using the Two degree    Field spectrograph (2dF) of the Anglo-Australian Telescope    to obtain the first complete spectroscopic sample of the    central region of the Fornax cluster. The survey is unique    in that all objects (both ``stars'' and ``galaxies'')    brighter than Bj=19.7 are measured. We expect to observe    two complete 2dF fields, about 6 square degrees or 6000    objects, most of which will be Galactic stars and background    galaxies and QSOs, as well as around 100 cluster galaxies.    A full description of the survey is given in Drinkwater    et al. (2000A&A...355..900D).    The type of object could be "everything", as galactic stars,    all types of galaxies, QSOs, and even what may be inter-galactic    globular clusters in the Fornax cluster.
    2007A&A...476...59M: first ref. with FCSS objects.
   Ref:=2007A&A...476...59M
     byMORRIS R.A.H.
, PHILLIPPS S., JONES J.B., DRINKWATER M.J., GREGG M.D., COUCH W.J., PARKER Q.A., SMITH R.M.
 Astron. Astrophys., 476, 59-62 (2007)

    2MASS galaxies in the Fornax cluster spectroscopic survey.

oCatalog: <FCSS JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS> N=228+114.
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as J/A+A/476/59
 Originof the Acronym: p = Pre-registered to IAU Comm.5