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J/A+A/385/884       BVRIJHK photometry of 27 post-AGB candidates  (Fujii+, 2002)
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BVRIJHK photometry of post-AGB candidates.
    Fujii T., Nakada Y., Parthasarathy M.
      <Astron. Astrophys. 385, 884 (2002)>
      =2002A&A...385..884F      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, giant ; Infrared sources ; Photometry, UBVRI ;
              Photometry, infrared
Keywords: stars: AGB and post-AGB - stars: circumstellar matter -
          stars: evolution - stars: mass-loss - infrared: stars -
          ISM: planetary nebulae: general

Abstract:
    BVRIJHK photometric observations are presented for 27 post-AGB
    candidates. Almost all objects show a double peaked spatial energy
    distribution (SED) curve in the optical to far-infrared wavelengths.
    Seventeen objects were classified as post-AGB stars on the basis of
    their spectral type, location in the IRAS color-color diagram and SED.
    The physical parameters of the observed post-AGB stars, the inner
    radius of the detached shell, the mass of the shell and the distance
    were derived using the simple dust shell model. We compared our
    observational sequence of post-AGB objects to the theoretical
    evolutionary sequence (Schoenberner, 1983ApJ...272..708S; Bloecker,
    1995, Cat. <J/A+A/299/755>) in the stellar temperatures versus age
    diagram. We found that two post-AGB stars, IRAS 05040+4820 and
    08187-1905, have low stellar temperature with a large dynamical age of
    the dust shell. They appear to provide the first observational
    evidence that some low-mass stars bypass the planetary nebulae stage
    because of their slow increase in stellar temperature.


File Summary:
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 FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe            80        .   This file
table1.dat        82       27   Infrared properties of candidates from IRAS-PSC
table2.dat        89       34   Photometric observations of Post-AGB candidates
table3.dat       107       27   Central star's properties and extinction
                                 properties
table4.dat        51       16   Derived fitting parameters of each Post-AGB
                                 candidate
notes.dat         78      132   Individual notes
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See also:
          II/125 : IRAS catalogue of Point Sources, Version 2.0 (IPAC 1986)
   J/ApJS/92/125 : Post-AGB evolution (Vassiliadis+, 1994)
   J/A+A/299/755 : Stellar evolution. II. Post-AGB (Bloecker+, 1995)
   J/A+A/323/469 : Optical spectra of post-AGB stars (Bakker+ 1997)
   J/PAZh/26/705 : UBV observations of post-AGB supergiants (Arkhipova+, 2000)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  2  I2    ---     Seq       [1/27] Sequential number
       3  A1    ---   n_Seq       [*] *: note in notes.dat file
   5- 14  A10   ---     IRAS      IRAS designation (G1)
  16- 25  A10   ---     OName     SAO or HD name of associated optical object
  27- 31  F5.2  Jy      F12um     ? Flux density at 12{mu}m
  33- 37  F5.2  Jy      F25um     ? Flux density at 25{mu}m
  39- 44  F6.2  Jy      F60um     ? Flux density at 60{mu}m
  46- 51  F6.2  Jy      F100um    ? Flux density at 1002{mu}m
  53- 54  I2    ---     VAR       ? Percent likelihood of variability
  56- 60  F5.1  deg     GLON      Galactic longitude
  62- 66  F5.1  deg     GLAT      Galactic latitude
      68  I1    ---     q_F12um   ? Quality index for F12um (1)
      69  I1    ---     q_F25um   ? Quality index for F25um (1)
      70  I1    ---     q_F60um   ? Quality index for F60um (1)
      71  I1    ---     q_F100um  ? Quality index for F100um (1)
  73- 82  A10   ---     Name      Name of the object (only for Seq 27)
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Note (1): Flux density quality:
           1 = upper limit
           2 = moderate quality
           3 = good quality.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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   Bytes Format Units        Label     Explanations
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   1-  2  I2    ---          Seq       [1/27] Sequential number
   4- 13  A10   ---          IRAS      IRAS name (G1)
  15- 19  F5.2  mag          Bmag      ? B magnitude (1)
  21- 25  F5.2  mag          Vmag      ? V magnitude (1)
  27- 31  F5.2  mag          Rcmag     ? Cousins R magnitude (1)
  33- 37  F5.2  mag          Icmag     ? Cousins I magnitude (1)
  39- 43  F5.2  mag          Jmag      ? J magnitude (1)
  45- 49  F5.2  mag          Hmag      ? H magnitude (1)
      51  A1    ---          l_Kmag    Limit flag on Kmag
  52- 56  F5.2  mag          Kmag      ? K magnitude (1)
  58- 67  A10  "DD/MM/YYYY"  DateO     Optical observation date
  69- 78  A10  "DD/MM/YYYY"  DateIR    NearIR observation date
  80- 89  A10   ---          Name      Name when no IRAS name (only for Seq 27)
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Note (1): Erros of magnitude:
           The errors of magnitude are +/-0.08mag for B,
                                       +/-0.05mag for V, RC and IC,
                                       +/-0.06mag for J,
                                       +/-0.04mag for H,
                                       +/-0.20mag for K.
           On Oct. 19/1997, the errors of JHK are
            +/-0.18mag, +/-0.12mag and +/-0.38mag, respectively.
           On Feb. 26/1997 and Mar. 24/1997, they are
            +/-0.15mag, +/-0.06mag and +/-0.20mag, respectively.
          The errors were determined by the magnitude deviations of standard
           stars.
          The large errors of near infrared is due to bad sky conditions.
          The large error in K band may be due to the thermal emission from
           inside of Schmidt telescope.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  2  I2    ---     Seq       [1/27] Sequential number
   4- 13  A10   ---     IRAS      IRAS name (G1)
  15- 22  A8    ---     SpType    Spectral type
      26  A1    ---   n_SpType    [e] e: Assumption
      28  A1    ---     ChemType  [C] Chemical type, C: carbon-rich object
  30- 34  I5    K       Tstar     ? Stellar temperature
  36- 40  F5.2  mag     (B-V)0    ? Dereddened (B-V) colour index
  42- 46  F5.2  mag     (B-V)obs  ? Observed (B-V) colour index
  48- 52  F5.2  mag     E(B-V)    ? Reddening
  54- 57  F4.2  mag     AV1       ? Interstellar extinction derived from
                                     intrinsic and observed B-V (1)
      58  A1    ---   n_AV1       [f] Note on AV1 (2)
  60- 63  F4.2  mag     AV2       ? Interstellar extinction derived from
                                     interstellar extinction maps
      65  A1    ---     Ref       [A-K] References (3)
  67- 92  A26   ----    Type      Object type
  98-107  A10   ---     Name      Name when no IRAS name (only for Seq 27)
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Note (1): Absorption, derived from intrinsic and observed B-V, it contains
           interstellar and circumstellar extinction
Note (2): f: We assumed AV=0.0, since (B-V)obs < (B-V)0
Note (3): References for spectral types
           A: Meixner et al., 1999, Cat. <J/ApJS/122/221>
           B: Hrivnak, 1995ApJ...438..341H
           C: Hardorp et al., 1959, in Luminous Stars in the Northern
               Milky Way (Hamburg-Bergedorf)
           D: Zuckerman et al., 1995Natur.373..494Z
           E: Reddy and Parthasarathy, 1996AJ....112.2053R
           F: Parthasarathy, 1993, ASP Conf. Ser. 45, 173
           G: SIMBAD database
           H: van den Ancker et al., 1998A&A...330..145V
           I: Scarrott et al., 1990MNRAS.245..484S
           J: Vijapurkar et al., 1998BASI...26..487V
           K: Hrivnak and Kwok, 1999ApJ...513..869H
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  2  I2    ---     Seq       Sequential number
   4- 13  A10   ---     IRAS      IRAS name
  15- 19  I5    K       Tstar     Stellar temperature
  21- 23  I3    K       Tdust     Dust temperature
  25- 28  I4    yr      tdyn      Dynamical time
  30- 34  F5.3  solMass dM/dt     Dust+gas mass-loss rate
                                   (M_Dust+gas_*10^-4^M_{sun}/yr)
  36- 39  F4.2  mag     AV3       Interstellar extinction derived from the
                                   model fitting.
  41- 45  I5    pc      Dfit      Derived distances using the model fitting
                                   (L=8000L_{sun}_)
  47- 51  I5    pc      DV        Derived distances assuming
                                   M_V_=M_bol,8000{SUN}_-B.C.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: notes.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  2  I2    ---     Seq       [1/24] Sequential number
   4- 13  A10   ---     IRAS      IRAS designation
  15- 78  A64   ---     Note      text of the note
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Global notes:
Note (G1): Seq 27, BD+39 4926, has no IRAS number
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History:
    From electronic version of the journal

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(End)                                        Patricia Bauer [CDS]    08-Apr-2002

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