Description of the fields

Field: lax

Major Axis: decimal log of major axis log D (D in 0.1 arcmin) with uncertainty and quality flag in parentheses

(For instance, if the major axis logD=1, it means that D=10 in 0.1', i.e. D=1').

Field: sax

Minor Axis: decimal log of minor axis logd (d in 0.1 arcmin)

Field: isophote

Isophote: isophotal level in mag.arsec-2 for isophotal diameters

Field: dcode

Diameter Code: code for the type of diameter following "dcode" table:

Field: bandname

Photometric Band. The definitions are given in the "band_codes" table:

Field: quality

The quality flag has the following meaning:
description of quality flag
valuemeaning
0regular measurement
1uncertain measurement, its weight is decreased by a factor 2 when computing the average value
3preliminary measurement, probably superseeded in a more recent publication, it is ignored unless no other measurement is available
4compilation, it is ignored unless no other measurement is available
9rejected measurement

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