Redshifts in SARS clusters

SARS covers the region 0deg<delta<-65deg, alpha<5h, alpha>21h (while avoiding the LMC and SMC), with |b|>40{deg}. Cluster locations were chosen from the Abell and Abell-Corwin-Olowin catalogs, while galaxy positions were selected from the Automatic Plate Measuring Facility galaxy catalog with extinction-corrected magnitudes in the range 15<=bJ<19.

SARS used the Las Campanas 2.5m du Pont telescope, observing either 65 or 128 objects concurrently over a 1.5deg^2^ field. New redshifts for 3440 galaxies are reported in the fields of these 39 clusters of galaxies.