The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). II. A Catalog of Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster

@article{ferrarese2026next,
  title = {{The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). II. A Catalog of Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster}},
  author = {Laura Ferrarese and Patrick Côté and Lauren A Macarthur and Joel C Roediger and John P Blakeslee and Michele Cantiello and Jean-Charles Cuillandre and Puragra Guhathakurta and Stephen Gwyn and Max M Kurzner and Eric W Peng and Matthew Santos and Eleanore B Todd and Elisa Toloba and Pierre-Alain Duc and Patrick R Durrell and Nicholas Fantin and Yuting Feng and Ariane Lançon and Sungsoon Lim and Chengze Liu and Deborah Lokhorst and Alessia Longobardi and Simona Mei and J.Christopher Mihos and Sanjaya Paudel and Thomas H Puzia and Anand Raichoor and Rubén Sánchez-Janssen and Kaixiang Wang and Hongxin Zhang and Alessandro Boselli and Michael L Balogh and Samuel Boissier and Eric Emsellem and J.J Kavelaars and Alan W Mcconnachie and Cameron R Morgan and Chelsea Spengler and James E Taylor and Matthew A Taylor and Toby Brown and Sébastien Fabbro and Raphael Gavazzi and Hendrik Hildebrandt and Rashi Jain and Andrés Jordán and Rory Smith and Solveig Thompson and Haruka Yoshino and Wim van Driel and Ludovic van Waerbeke and Tyrone E Woods and Jade Yeung},
  journal = {The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.3847/1538-4365/ae8fc7},
  eprint = {2607.18414},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://hal.science/hal-05758320v1},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}

TY  - JOUR
TI  - The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). II. A Catalog of Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster
AU  - Laura Ferrarese
AU  - Patrick Côté
AU  - Lauren A Macarthur
AU  - Joel C Roediger
AU  - John P Blakeslee
AU  - Michele Cantiello
AU  - Jean-Charles Cuillandre
AU  - Puragra Guhathakurta
AU  - Stephen Gwyn
AU  - Max M Kurzner
AU  - Eric W Peng
AU  - Matthew Santos
AU  - Eleanore B Todd
AU  - Elisa Toloba
AU  - Pierre-Alain Duc
AU  - Patrick R Durrell
AU  - Nicholas Fantin
AU  - Yuting Feng
AU  - Ariane Lançon
AU  - Sungsoon Lim
AU  - Chengze Liu
AU  - Deborah Lokhorst
AU  - Alessia Longobardi
AU  - Simona Mei
AU  - J.Christopher Mihos
AU  - Sanjaya Paudel
AU  - Thomas H Puzia
AU  - Anand Raichoor
AU  - Rubén Sánchez-Janssen
AU  - Kaixiang Wang
AU  - Hongxin Zhang
AU  - Alessandro Boselli
AU  - Michael L Balogh
AU  - Samuel Boissier
AU  - Eric Emsellem
AU  - J.J Kavelaars
AU  - Alan W Mcconnachie
AU  - Cameron R Morgan
AU  - Chelsea Spengler
AU  - James E Taylor
AU  - Matthew A Taylor
AU  - Toby Brown
AU  - Sébastien Fabbro
AU  - Raphael Gavazzi
AU  - Hendrik Hildebrandt
AU  - Rashi Jain
AU  - Andrés Jordán
AU  - Rory Smith
AU  - Solveig Thompson
AU  - Haruka Yoshino
AU  - Wim van Driel
AU  - Ludovic van Waerbeke
AU  - Tyrone E Woods
AU  - Jade Yeung
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/05
JO  - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
DO  - 10.3847/1538-4365/ae8fc7
UR  - https://hal.science/hal-05758320v1
AB  - The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) is a deep, high-resolution imaging campaign that used the 1 deg^2 MegaCam instrument on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to carry out a comprehensive optical survey of the Virgo cluster, from its core to its virial radius. The NGVS covers a contiguous area of 104 deg^2 (8.63 Mpc^2 at the 16.5 Mpc distance of Virgo) in the u*,g,i, and zbands, with additional limited coverage in r. In this paper, we present the final catalog of Virgo galaxies across the entire NGVS area. The catalog includes 3680 galaxies considered to be bona fide members of the cluster, spanning a factor of 2.5 million in luminosity, from g = 8.42 mag to g = 24.41 mag (M_g = −22.67 mag to M_g = −6.68 mag). With 2100 previously uncataloged galaxies, the NGVS catalog augments the number of known Virgo members by a factor of 2.3. The catalog is complete down to g = 18.6 mag (M_g = −12.5 mag, corresponding to a stellar mass M_⋆ ∼ 1.6 × 10^7 M_⊙ for an old stellar population) and 50% complete at g = 22.0 mag (M_g = −9.1 mag, M_⋆ ∼ 6.2 × 10^5 M_⊙), 3 mag deeper than the venerable Virgo Cluster Catalog (VCC), which for over 40 yr has served as the reference standard for Virgo. Photometric and structural parameters are derived for all NGVS galaxies and presented in a series of tables, alongside nuclear and morphological classification, as well as stellar masses and, when available, radial velocities.
ER  -