FRII{\sl{CAT}}: A FIRST catalog of FR~II radio galaxies
  We built a catalog of 122 FR~II radio galaxies, called FRII{\sl{CAT}},
selected from a published sample obtained by combining observations from the
NVSS, FIRST, and SDSS surveys. The catalog includes sources with redshift $\leq
0.15$, an edge-brightened radio morphology, and those with at least one of the
emission peaks located at radius $r$ larger than 30 kpc from the center of the
host. The radio luminosity at 1.4 GHz of the \FRII\ sources covers the range
$L_{1.4} \sim 10^{39.5} - 10^{42.5}$ $\ergs$. The \FRII\ catalog has 90\% of
low and 10\% of high excitation galaxies (LEGs and HEGs), respectively. The
properties of these two classes are significantly different. The FRII{\sl{CAT}}
LEGs are mostly luminous ($-20 \gtrsim M_r \gtrsim -24$), red early-type
galaxies with black hole masses in the range $10^8 \lesssim M_{\rm BH} \lesssim
10^9 M_\odot$; they are essentially indistinguishable from the FR~Is belonging
to the FRI{\sl{CAT}}. The HEG FR~IIs are associated with optically bluer and
mid-IR redder hosts than the LEG FR~IIs and to galaxies and black holes that
are smaller, on average, by a factor $\sim$2.
  FR~IIs have a factor $\sim$ 3 higher average radio luminosity than FR~Is.
Nonetheless, most ($\sim 90$ \%) of the selected FR~IIs have a radio power that
is lower, by as much as a factor of $\sim$100, than the transition value
between FR~Is and FR~IIs found in the 3C sample. The correspondence between the
morphological classification of FR~I and FR~II and the separation in radio
power disappears when including sources selected at low radio flux thresholds,
which is in line with previous results. In conclusion, a radio source produced
by a low power jet can be edge brightened or edge darkened, and the outcome is
not related to differences in the optical properties of the host galaxy.
