SEARCH AND REDSHIFT SURVEY FOR IRAS GALAXIES BEHIND THE NORTHERN MILKY-WAY

We made a search for IRAS galaxies behind the Northern Milky Way by in frared selection using IRAS Point Source Catalog and visual inspection on POSS (Palomar Observatory Sky Survey) paper prints, and carried ou t a redshift survey of the identified objects. This paper presents a c atalog of 649 IRAS galaxies with f60 greater-than-or-equal-to 0.6 Jy b etween l = 150-degrees and 240-degrees at Absolute value of b less-tha n-or-equal-to 15-degrees which contains 254 newly identified galaxies and 188 newly measured radial velocities. Due to galactic extinction, our sample is a lower limit sample of the flux limited sample of IRAS galaxies, but it can give some information on the distribution of gala xies in the region perpendicular to the Supergalactic Plane. We confir m two regions with enhanced density at l approximately 160-degrees, cz approximately 5000 km s-1 and l approximately 1900, cz approximately 5000 km s-1 and at least two possible voids.