The UGC isolated galaxy pair catalog

The UGC lists 12 921 galaxies to {delta}>-2:30 and is complete to an apparent diameter of 1{arcmin}. The criteria used to define the isolated galaxy pairs are based on velocity, interdistance, reciprocity and isolation information.

A peculiar investigation has allowed to gather very accurate radial velocities for pair members, from high quality HI and optical measurements (median uncertainty on velocity differences 10km/s). Our final catalog contains 1005 galaxy pairs with {rho}>2.5, of which 509 have {rho}>5 (50% of the pairs, i.e. 8% of the UGC galaxies) and 273 are highly isolated with {rho}>10 (27% of the pairs, i.e. 4% of the UGC galaxies). Some global properties of the pair catalog are given.