CANDIDATES FOR A SOUTHERN EXTENSION OF THE KARACHENTSEV CATALOG OF ISOLATED PAIRS OF GALAXIES

The paper presents a sample of double galaxies selected from The Surfa ce Photometry Catalog of the ESO-Uppsala Galaxies using the Karachents ev (1972: K72) criteria. Considering the large and growing number of o bserving facilities in that hemisphere, the sample aims to supply inve stigators with targets as homogeneous as possible to those in the Nort hern Catalog of Isolated Pairs of Galaxies (K72) which have been studi ed in a large frequency range. The paper discusses the sample degree o f completeness, separation and velocity distributions. First inference s are sketched from the morphological association of pair members and from the study of the Holmberg effect. Being the primary purpose of th e paper to provide a tool to investigators, an Atlas of images for the 301 best candidates pairs obtained using the Digitized Sky Survey dag gar is given. The Atlas reports for each pair member the relevant data as obtained from the current literature.