Ultra-flat galaxies selected from RFGC catalog. II. Orbital estimates of halo masses

We used the Revised Flat Galaxy Catalog (RFGC) to select 817 ultra-flat (UF) edge-on disk galaxies with blue and red apparent axial ratios of (a/b)_B > 10.0 and (a/b)_R > 8.5. The sample covering the whole sky, except the Milky Way zone, contains 490 UF galaxies with measured radial velocities. Our inspection of the neighboring galaxies around them revealed only 30 companions with radial velocity difference of | ΔV |< 500 kms^?1 inside the projected separation of R_p < 250 kpc. Wherein, the wider area around the UF galaxy within R_p < 750 kpc contains no other neighbors brighter than the UF galaxy itself in the same velocity span. The resulting sample galaxies mostly belong to the morphological types Sc, Scd, Sd. They have a moderate rotation velocity curve amplitude of about 120 km s^?1 and a moderate K-band luminosity of about 10¹⁰L_⊙. The median difference of radial velocities of their companions is 87 km s^?1, yielding the median orbital mass estimate of about 5 × 10¹¹M_⊙. Excluding six probable non-isolated pairs, we obtained a typical halo-mass-to-stellar-mass of UF galaxies of about 30, what is almost the same one as in the principal spiral galaxies, like M31 and M81 in the nearest groups. We also note that ultra-flat galaxies look two times less “dusty” than other spirals of the same luminosity.     

The bulk motion of flat galaxies on scales of 100 Mpc in the quadrupole and octupole approximations

The peculiarities of non-Hubble bulk motions of galaxies are studied by analyzing a sample of 1271 thin edge-on spirals with distances determined using a multiparametric Tully-Fisher relation that includes the amplitude of the galaxy rotation, the blue and red diameters, surface brightness, and morphological type. In the purely dipole approximation, the bulk motion of galaxies relative to the cosmic microwave background frame can be described by the velocity of 336±96 km s^?1 in the direction l=321°, b=?1° within radius R _max =10000 km s^?1. An analysis of more complex velocity field models shows that the anisotropy of the Hubble expansion described by the quadrupole term is equal to ～5% on scale lengths R _max=6000–10000 km s^?1. The amplitude within the Local Supercluster (R _max=3000 km s^?1) is as high as ～20%. The inclusion of the octupole component reduces the dipole amplitude to 134±111 km s^?1 on scale lengths of ～8000 km s^?1. The most remarkable feature of the galaxy velocity field within R _max=8000 km s^?1 is the zone of minimum centered on l=80°, b=0° (the constellation of Cygnus) whose amplitude reaches 18% of the mean Hubble velocity.     

The structure of clusters with bimodal distributions of galaxy radial velocities,I. A1035

The structure of the A1035 cluster of galaxies (10^h32^m + 40°13′, cz ～ 22000 kms^?1), which exhibits a bimodal distribution of galaxy radial velocities (ΔV ≈ 3000 kms^?1), is analyzed using three methods of determining the relative distances to clusters from early-type galaxies: the Kormendy relation corrected for the dependence of residuals on galaxy magnitude, the photometric plane, and the fundamental plane. We use the data obtained with the l-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences and SDSS (DR5) data to show that A1035 consists of two gravitationally unbound independent clusters. These clusters with the velocity dispersions of 566 km s^?1 and 610 km s^?1 and masses within R ₂₀₀ equal to 2.7 · 10¹⁴ and 3.5 · 10¹⁴ M _⊙, respectively, obey the Hubble law.     

A Catalog of Isolated Galaxy Pairs Limited to Absolute Magnitude -18.5 Drawn from HyperLEDA Database

The present paper is devoted to the construction of a catalog of isolated galaxy pairs extracted from the HyperLEDA extragalactic database. The radial velocities of the galaxies in the pairs are in the range [3000, 16000] km s^?1. In order to get an unbiased pair catalog as complete as possible, we have limited the absolute magnitude of the galaxies to M ≤ ?18.5. The criteria used to define the isolated galaxy pairs are the following: 1) velocity criterion: radial velocity difference between the pair members ΔV < 500 kms^?1; 2) interdistance criterion: projected distance between the members r_p < 1 Mpc; 3) reciprocity criterion: each member is the closest galaxy to the other one, which excludes multiplets; 4) isolation criterion: we define a pair as isolated if the ratio ρ = r₃/r_p of the projected distance of the pair to its closest galaxy (this one having a velocity difference lower than 500 km s^?1 with respect to the pair) and the members projected interdistance r_p is larger than 2.5.We have searched for these closest galaxies first in HyperLEDA M-limited source catalog, then in the full one.We have managed not to suppress the small number of pairs having close-by but faint dwarf galaxy companions. The galaxy pair catalog lists the value of ρ for each isolated pair. This method allows the user of the catalog to select any isolation level (beyond the chosen limit ρ > 2.5). Our final catalog contains 13 114 galaxy pairs, of which 57% are fairly isolated withρ > 5, and 30% are highly isolated with ρ ≥ 10.     

Surveying the Local Supercluster Plane

We investigate the distribution and velocity field of galaxies situated in a band of 100 by 20 degrees centered on M87 and oriented along the Local supercluster plane. Our sample amounts 2158 galaxies with radial velocities less than 2000 km s^?1. Of them, 1119 galaxies (52%) have distance and peculiar velocity estimates. About 3/4 of early-type galaxies are concentrated within the Virgo cluster core, most of the late-type galaxies in the band locate outside the virial radius. Distribution of gas-rich dwarfs with M_HI >M_* looks to be insensitive to the Virgo cluster presence. Among 50 galaxy groups in the equatorial supercluster band 6 groups have peculiar velocities about 500–1000 km s^?1 comparable with virial motions in rich clusters. The most cryptic case is a flock of nearly 30 galaxies around NGC4278 (Coma I cloud), moving to us with the mean peculiar velocity of ?840 km s^?1. This cloud (or filament?) resides at a distance of 16.1 Mpc from us and approximately 5 Mpc away from the Virgo center. Galaxies around Virgo cluster exhibit Virgocentric infall with an amplitude of about 500 km s^?1. Assuming the spherically symmetric radial infall, we estimate the radius of the zero-velocity surface to be R₀ = (7.0±0.3) Mpc that yields the total mass of Virgo cluster to be (7.4 ± 0.9)× 10¹⁴M_⊙ in tight agreement with its virial mass estimates. We conclude that the Virgo outskirts does not contain significant amounts of dark mater beyond its virial core.     

Kinematic analysis of solar-neighborhood stars based on RAVE4 data

We consider stars with radial velocities, proper motions, and distance estimates from the RAVE4 catalogue. Based on a sample of more than 145 000 stars at distances r < 0.5 kpc, we have found the following kinematic parameters: \({\left( {U,{\kern 1pt} V,{\kern 1pt} W} \right)_ \odot }\) = (9.12, 20.80, 7.66) ± (0.10, 0.10, 0.08) km s^?1, Ω₀ = 28.71 ± 0.63 km s^?1 kpc^?1, and Ω₀ ^’ = ?4.28 ± 0.11 km s^?1 kpc^?2. This gives the linear rotation velocity V ₀ = 230 ± 12 km s^?1 (for the adopted R ₀ = 8.0 ± 0.4 kpc) and the Oort constants A = 17.12 ± 0.45 km s^?1 kpc^?1 and B = ?11.60 ± 0.77 km s^?1 kpc^?1. The 2D velocity distributions in the UV, UW, and VW planes have been constructed using a local sample, r < 0.25 kpc, consisting of ~47 000 stars. A difference of the UV velocity distribution from the previously known ones constructed from a smaller amount of data has been revealed. It lies in the fact that our distribution has an extremely enhanced branch near the Wolf 630 peak. A previously unknown peak at (U, V) = (?96, ?10) km s^?1 and a separate new feature in the Wolf 630 stream, with the coordinates of its center being (U, V) = (30, ?40) km s^?1, have been detected.     

A preliminary radial-velocity curve for the star <Emphasis Type="Italic">θ</Emphasis><Superscript>1</Superscript> Ori D

We measured the radial velocity of the star θ¹ Ori D from IUE spectra and used published observations. Based on these data, we determined the period of its radial-velocity variations, P=20.2675±0.0010 days, constructed the phase radial-velocity curve, and solved it by least squares. The spectroscopic orbital elements were found to be the following: the epoch of periastron passage E_p=JD 2430826.6±0.1, the system's center-of-mass velocity /Gg=32.4±1.0 km s^?1, K=14.3±1.5 km s^?1, Ω=3.3±0.1 rad, e=0.68±0.09, a₁ sin i = 3 × 10¹⁰ km, and f₁ = 0.0025M_⊙. Twice the period, P=40.528±0.002 days, is also consistent with the observations.     

Kinematics of the galaxy from Cepheids with proper motions from the Gaia DR1 catalogue

A sample of classical Cepheids with known distances and line-of-sight velocities has been supplemented with proper motions from the Gaia DR1 catalogue. Based on the velocities of 260 stars, we have found the components of the peculiar solar velocity vector (U, V, W)_⊙ = (7.90, 11.73, 7.39) ± (0.65, 0.77, 0.62) km s^?1 and the following parameters of the Galactic rotation curve: Ω₀ = 28.84 ± 0.33 km s^?1 kpc^?1, Ω′₀ = ?4.05 ± 0.10 km s^?1 kpc^?2, and Ω″₀ = 0.805 ± 0.067 km s^?1 kpc^?3 for the adopted solar Galactocentric distance R ₀ = 8 kpc; the linear rotation velocity of the local standard of rest is V ₀ = 231 ± 6 km s^?1.     

Galaxy triplets in the local supercluster

We report a catalog of 168 galaxy triplets with line-of-sight velocities V _LG < 3500 km/s identified using a percolation criterion, which takes individual properties of galaxies into account. The catalog contains the line-of-sight velocities, K-band magnitudes, and morphological types of galaxies. Our sample of galaxy triplets is characterized by the median values of the line-of-sight velocity dispersion, projected harmonic radius, and crossing time of 40 km/s, 155 kpc, and 3 Gyr, respectively. The median projectedmass and K-band luminosity of our triplets are equal to 5 × 10¹¹ M _⊙ and 15M _⊙/L _⊙, respectively, with the uncertainty of these parameters due mostly to the errors of radial-velocity measurements. The basic properties of triple systems in the Local Supercluster are compared to those of more distant isolated triplets from the KTG and KTS samples. The fraction of triplet members among all galaxies is found be more than 5%.     

The star-forming region in Orion KL

We have studied the fine structure of the active H₂O supermaser emission region in Orion KL with an angular resolution of 0.1 mas. We found central features suggestive of a bipolar outflow, bullets, and an envelope which correspond to the earliest stage of low-mass star formation. The ejector is a bright compact source ≤0.05 AU in size with a brightness temperature T _b ?10¹⁷ K. The highly collimated bipolar outflow ～30 has a velocity v _ej ?10 km s^?1, a rotation period of ～0.5 yr, a precession period of ～10 yr, and a precession angle of ～33°. Precession gives rise to a jet in the shape of a conical helix. The envelope amplifies the radio emission from the components by about three orders of magnitude at a velocity v=7.65 km s^?1.     

Galactic kinematics from data on open star clusters from the MWSC catalogue

Open star clusters from the MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) catalogue have been used to determine the Galactic rotation parameters. The circular rotation velocity of the solar neighborhood around the Galactic center has been found from data on more than 2000 clusters of various ages to be V ₀ = 236 ± 6 km s^?1 for the adopted Galactocentric distance of the Sun R ₀ = 8.3 ± 0.2 kpc. The derived angular velocity parameters are Ω ₀ = 28.48 ± 0.36 km s^?1 kpc^?1, Ω’₀ = ?3.50 ± 0.08 km s^?1 kpc_?2, and Ω″₀ = 0.331 ± 0.037 km s^?1 kpc^?3. The influence of the spiral density wave has been detected only in the sample of clusters younger than 50 Myr. For these clusters the amplitudes of the tangential and radial velocity perturbations are f ^θ = 5.6 ± 1.6 km s^?1 and f _R = 7.7 ± 1.4 km s^?1, respectively; the perturbation wavelengths are λ _θ = 2.6 ± 0.5 kpc (i _θ = ^?11? ± 2?) and λ _R = 2.1 ± 0.5 kpc (i _R = ?9? ± 2?) for the adopted four-armed model (m = 4). The Sun’s phase in the spiral density wave is (χ_⊙)_θ = ?62? ± 9? and (χ_⊙)_R = ?85? ± 10? from the residual tangential and radial velocities, respectively.     

Kinematics of the Galaxy from OB Stars with Data from the Gaia DR2 Catalogue

We have selected and analyzed a sample of OB stars with known line-of-sight velocities determined through ground-based observations and with trigonometric parallaxes and propermotions from the Gaia DR2 catalogue. Some of the stars in our sample have distance estimates made from calcium lines. A direct comparison with the trigonometric distance scale has shown that the calcium distance scale should be reduced by 13%. The following parameters of the Galactic rotation curve have been determined from 495 OB stars with relative parallax errors less than 30%: (U, V,W)_⊙ = (8.16, 11.19, 8.55)± (0.48, 0.56, 0.48) km s^?1, Ω₀ = 28.92 ± 0.39 km s^?1 kpc^?1, Ω'₀ = ?4.087 ± 0.083 km s^?1 kpc^?2, and Ω″ ₀ = 0.703 ± 0.067 km s?1 kpc^?3, where the circular velocity of the local standard of rest is V0 = 231 ± 5 km s^?1 (for the adopted R₀ = 8.0 ± 0.15 kpc). The parameters of the Galactic spiral density wave have been found from the series of radial, V_R, residual tangential, ΔV_circ, and vertical, W, velocities of OB stars by applying a periodogram analysis. The amplitudes of the radial, tangential, and vertical velocity perturbations are f_R = 7.1± 0.3 km s^?1, f_θ = 6.5 ± 0.4 km s^?1, and f_W = 4.8± 0.8 km s^?1, respectively; the perturbation wavelengths are λ_R = 3.3 ± 0.1 kpc, λ_θ = 2.3 ± 0.2 kpc, and λ_W = 2.6 ± 0.5 kpc; and the Sun’s radial phase in the spiral density wave is (χ_⊙)_R = ?135? ± 5?, (χ_⊙)θ = ?123? ± 8?, and (χ_⊙)_W = ?132? ± 21? for the adopted four-armed spiral pattern.     

Kinematics of Stars from the TGAS (Gaia DR1) Catalogue

Based on the stellar proper motions of the TGAS (Gaia DR1) catalogue, we have analyzed the velocity field of main-sequence stars and red giants from the TGAS catalogue with heliocentric distances up to 1.5 kpc. We have obtained four variants of kinematic parameters corresponding to different methods of calculating the distances from the parallaxes of stars measured with large relative errors. We have established that within the Ogorodnikov–Milne model changing the variant of distances affects significantly only the solar velocity components relative to the chosen centroid of stars, provided that the solution is obtained in narrow ranges of distances (0.1 kpc). The estimates of all the remaining kinematic parameters change little. This allows the Oort coefficients and related Galactic rotation parameters as well as all the remaining Ogorodnikov–Milne model parameters (except for the solar terms) to be reliably estimated irrespective of the parallax measurement accuracy. The main results obtained from main-sequence stars in the range of distances from 0.1 to 1.5 kpc are: A = 16.29 ± 0.06 km s^?1 kpc^?1, B = ?11.90 ± 0.05 km s^?1 kpc^?1, C = ?2.99 ± 0.06 km s^?1 kpc^?1, K = ?4.04 ± 0.16 km s^?1 kpc^?1, and the Galactic rotation period P = 217.41 ± 0.60 Myr. The analogous results obtained from red giants in the range from 0.2 to 1.6 kpc are: the Oort constants A = 13.32 ± 0.09 km s^?1 kpc^?1, B = ?12.71 ± 0.06 km s^?1 kpc^?1, C = ?2.04 ± 0.08 km s^?1 kpc^?1, K = ?2.72 ± 0.19 km s^?1 kpc^?1, and the Galactic rotation period P = 236.03 ± 0.98 Myr. The Galactic rotation velocity gradient along the radius vector (the slope of the Galactic rotation curve) is ?4.32 ± 0.08 km s^?1 kpc^?1 for main-sequence stars and ?0.61 ± 0.11 km s^?1 kpc^?1 for red giants. This suggests that the Galactic rotation velocity determined from main-sequence stars decreases with increasing distance from the Galactic center faster than it does for red giants.     

Ultra-flat galaxies selected from RFGC catalog. I. The sample properties

We used the Revised Flat Galaxy Catalog (RFGC) to create a sample of ultra-flat galaxies (UFG) covering the whole northern and southern sky apart from theMilkyWay zone. It contains 817 spiral galaxies seen edge-on, selected into theUFG sample according to their apparent axial ratios (a/b)_B ≥ 10.0 and (a/b)_R ≥ 8.53 in the blue and red bands, respectively. Within this basic sample we fixed an exemplary sample of 441 UFG galaxies having the radial velocities of V_LG < 10000 km s^?1, Galactic latitude of | b |> 10° and the blue angular diameter of a_B > 1.′0. According to the Schmidt test the exemplary sample of 441 galaxies is characterized by about (80–90)% completeness, what is quite enough to study different properties of the ultra-flat galaxies. We found that more than 3/4 of UFGs have the morphological types within the narrow range of T = 7± 1, i.e. the thinnest stellar disks occur among the Scd, Sd, and Sdm types. The average surface brightness of UFG galaxies tends to diminish towards the flattest bulge-less galaxies. Regularly shaped disks without signs of asymmetrymake up about 2/3 both among all the RFGC galaxies, and the UFG sample objects. About 60% of ultra-flat galaxies can be referred to dynamically isolated objects, while 30% of them probably belong to the scattered associations (filaments, walls), and only about 10% of them are dynamically dominating galaxies with respect to their neighbours.     

Kinematics of the galaxy from OB stars with proper motions from the Gaia DR1 catalogue

We consider two samples of OB stars with different distance scales that we have studied previously. The first and second samples consist of massive spectroscopic binaries with photometric distances and distances determined from interstellar calcium lines, respectively. The OB stars are located at heliocentric distances up to 7 kpc. We have identified them with the Gaia DR1 catalogue. Using the proper motions taken from the Gaia DR1 catalogue is shown to reduce the random errors in the Galactic rotation parameters compared to the previously known results. By analyzing the proper motions and parallaxes of 208 OB stars from the Gaia DR1 catalogue with a relative parallax error of less than 200%, we have found the following kinematic parameters: (U, V)_⊙ = (8.67, 6.63)± (0.88, 0.98) km s^?1, Ω₀ = 27.35 ± 0.77 km s^?1 kpc^?1, Ω′₀ = ?4.13 ± 0.13 km s^?1 kpc^?2, and Ω″₀ = 0.672 ± 0.070 km s^?1 kpc^?3, the Oort constants are A = ?16.53 ± 0.52 km s^?1 kpc^?1 and B = 10.82 ± 0.93 km s^?1 kpc^?1, and the linear circular rotation velocity of the local standard of rest around the Galactic rotation axis is V ₀ = 219 ± 8 km s^?1 for the adopted R ₀ = 8.0 ± 0.2 kpc. Based on the same stars, we have derived the rotation parameters only from their line-of-sight velocities. By comparing the estimated values of Ω′₀, we have found the distance scale factor for the Gaia DR1 catalogue to be close to unity: 0.96. Based on 238 OB stars of the combined sample with photometric distances for the stars of the first sample and distances in the calcium distance scale for the stars of the second sample, line-of-sight velocities, and proper motions from the Gaia DR1 catalogue, we have found the following kinematic parameters: (U, V, W)_⊙ = (8.19, 9.28, 8.79)± (0.74, 0.92, 0.74) km s^?1, Ω₀ = 31.53 ± 0.54 km s^?1 kpc^?1, Ω′₀ = ?4.44 ± 0.12 km s^?1 kpc^?2, and Ω″₀ = 0.706 ± 0.100 km s^?1 kpc^?3; here, A = ?17.77 ± 0.46 km s^?1 kpc^?1, B = 13.76 ± 0.71 km s^?1 kpc^?1, and V ₀ = 252 ± 8 km s^?1.     

The structure of clusters with bimodal distributions of galaxy radial velocities. II: A1775

We analyze the structure of the cluster of galaxies Abell 1775 (α = 13 ^h 42 ^m , δ = +26°22′, cz ≈ 21000 km/s), which exhibits a bimodal distribution of radial velocities of the containing galaxies. The difference of the subcluster radial velocities is ΔV ≈ 2900 km/s. We use the results of our photometric observations made with the 1-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the spectroscopic and photometric data from the SDSS DR6 catalog to determine independent distances to the subclusters via three different methods: the Kormendy relation, photometric plane, and fundamental plane. We find that the A1775 cluster consists of two independent clusters, A1775A (cz = 19664 km/s) and A1775B (cz = 22576 km/s), each located at its own Hubble distance and having small peculiar velocities. Given the velocity dispersions of 324 km/s and 581 km/s and the dynamic masses within the R ₂₀₀ radius equal to 0.6 × 10¹⁴ and 3.3 × 1014 M _⊙, the A1775A and A1775B clusters have the K-band luminosity-to-mass ratios of 29 and 61, respectively. A radio galaxy with an extended tail belongs to the A1775B cluster.     

Testing the Distance Scale of the Gaia TGAS Catalogue by the Kinematic Method

We have studied the simultaneous and separate solutions of the basic kinematic equations obtained using the stellar velocities calculated on the basis of data from the Gaia TGAS and RAVE5 catalogues. By comparing the values of Ω'₀ found by separately analyzing only the line-of-sight velocities of stars and only their proper motions, we have determined the distance scale correction factor p to be close to unity, 0.97 ± 0.04. Based on the proper motions of stars from the Gaia TGAS catalogue with relative trigonometric parallax errors less than 10% (they are at a mean distance of 226 pc), we have found the components of the group velocity vector for the sample stars relative to the Sun (U, V,W)_⊙ = (9.28, 20.35, 7.36) ± (0.05, 0.07, 0.05) km s^?1, the angular velocity of Galactic rotation Ω⁰ = 27.24 ± 0.30 km s?1 kpc?1, and its first derivative Ω'₀ = ?3.77 ± 0.06 km s^?1 kpc^?2; here, the circular rotation velocity of the Sun around the Galactic center is V₀ = 218 ± 6 km s^?1 kpc (for the adopted distance R₀ = 8.0 ± 0.2 kpc), while the Oort constants are A = 15.07 ± 0.25 km s^?1 kpc^?1 and B = ?12.17 ± 0.39 km s^?1 kpc^?1, p = 0.98 ± 0.08. The kinematics of Gaia TGAS stars with parallax errors more than 10% has been studied by invoking the distances from a paper by Astraatmadja and Bailer-Jones that were corrected for the Lutz–Kelker bias. We show that the second derivative of the angular velocity of Galactic rotation Ω'₀ = 0.864 ± 0.021 km s^?1 kpc^?3 is well determined from stars at a mean distance of 537 pc. On the whole, we have found that the distances of stars from the Gaia TGAS catalogue calculated using their trigonometric parallaxes do not require any additional correction factor.     

A photometric study of faint galaxies in the field of GRB 000926

We present our B, V, R_c, and I_c observations of a \(3'.6 \times 3'\) field centered on the host galaxy of GRB 000926 (α_2000.0=17^h04^m11^s, \(\delta _{2000.0} = + 51^ \circ 47'9\mathop .\limits^{''} 8\)). The observations were carried out on the 6-m Special Astrophysical Observatory telescope using the SCORPIO instrument. The catalog of galaxies detected in this field includes 264 objects for which the signal-to-noise ratio is larger than 5 in each photometric band. The following limiting magnitudes in the catalog correspond to this limitation: 26.6 (B), 25.7 (V), 25.8 (R), and 24.5 (I). The differential galaxy counts are in good agreement with previously published CCD observations of deep fields. We estimated the photometric redshifts for all of the cataloged objects and studied the color variations of the galaxies with z. For luminous spiral galaxies with M(B)z～1.     

Normal galaxies in the all-sky survey by the eROSITA X-ray telescope of the Spectrum-X-Gamma observatory

We analyze the statistical properties of normal galaxies to be detected in the all-sky survey by the eROSITA X-ray telescope of the Spectrum-X-Gamma observatory. With the current configuration and parameters of the eROSITA telescope, the sensitivity of a 4-year-long all-sky survey will be ≈10^?14 erg s^?1 in the 0.5–2 keV band. This will allow ～(1.5–2) × 10⁴ normal galaxies with approximately the same contribution of star-forming and elliptical galaxies to be detected. All galaxies of the X-ray survey are expected to enter into the existing far-infrared (IRAS) or near-infrared (2MASS) catalogs; the sample of star-forming galaxies will be approximately equivalent in sensitivity to the sample of star-forming galaxies in the IRAS catalog of infrared sources. Thus, a large homogeneous sample of normal galaxies with measured X-ray, near-infrared, and far-infrared fluxes will be formed. About 90% of the galaxies in the survey are located within ～200–400 Mpc. A typical (most probable) galaxy will have a luminosity log L _X ～ 40.5–41.0, will be located at a distance of ～70–90 Mpc, and will be either a star-forming galaxy with a star formation rate of ～20M _⊙ yr^?1 whose X-ray emission is produced by ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) or an elliptical galaxy with amass log M _* ～ 11.3 emitting through to a hot interstellar gas. The galaxies within 35 Mpc will collectively contain ～10² ULXs with luminosities log L _X > 40, ～80% of whichwill be the only luminous source in the galaxy. Thus, although the angular resolution of the eROSITA telescope is too low for the luminosity function of compact sources in galaxies to be studied in detail, the survey data will allow one to investigate its bright end and, possibly, to impose constraints on the maximum luminosity of ULXs.