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J/AJ/123/290        UBVI CCD photometry of NGC 2516                (Sung+, 2002)
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The open cluster NGC 2516. I. Optical photometry.
    Sung H., Bessell M.S., Lee B.-W., Lee S.-G.
      <Astron. J. 123, 290 (2002)>
      =2002AJ....123..290S      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Clusters, open ; Photometry, CCD ; Photometry, UBVRI
Keywords: color-magnitude diagrams -
          open clusters and associations: individual (NGC 2516) -
          stars: evolution - stars: luminosity function, mass function

Description:
    We present UBVI CCD photometry of the intermediate-age open cluster
    NGC 2516.

File Summary:
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 FileName   Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe         80        .   This file
table1.dat    143     1264   Photometric Data
table4.dat    116        4   Photometric data for known white dwarfs in NGC 2516
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See also:
   J/A+A/375/863 : Photometry in NGC 2516 (Jeffries+, 2001)
   J/A+A/312/818 : NGC 2516 X-ray sources (Dachs+, 1996)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat table4.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label   Explanations
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   1-  4  I4    ---     SBL     Object running number identification (1)
       6  I1    h       RAh     Hour of Right Ascension (J2000)
   8-  9  I2    min     RAm     Minute of Right Ascension (J2000)
  11- 15  F5.2  s       RAs     Second of Right Ascension (J2000)
      17  A1    ---     DE-     Sign of the Declination (J2000)
  18- 19  I2    deg     DEd     Degree of Declination (J2000)
  21- 22  I2    arcmin  DEm     Arcminute of Declination (J2000)
  24- 27  F4.1  arcsec  DEs     Arcsecond of Declination (J2000)
  29- 34  F6.3  mag     Vmag    The weighted mean Johnson V band magnitude
  36- 41  F6.3  mag     V-Ic    ? The weighted mean Johnson-Cousins (V-Ic) color
  43- 48  F6.3  mag     B-V     ? The weighted mean Johnson-Cousins (B-V) color
  50- 55  F6.3  mag     U-B     ? The weighted mean Johnson-Cousins (U-B) color
  57- 61  F5.3  mag   e_Vmag    ? The weighted error in Vmag
  63- 67  F5.3  mag   e_V-Ic    ? The weighted error in V-Ic
  69- 73  F5.3  mag   e_B-V     ? The weighted error in B-V
  75- 79  F5.3  mag   e_U-B     ? The weighted error in U-B
      81  I1    ---   o_Vmag    Number of independent measurements in Vmag
      83  I1    ---   o_V-Ic    ? Number of independent measurements in V-I
      85  I1    ---   o_B-V     ? Number of independent measurements in B-V
      87  I1    ---   o_U-B     ? Number of independent measurements in U-B
  89- 93  A5    ---     BDA     The number adopted in the open cluster database
                                  WEBDA (http://obswww.unige.ch/wedba)
  95- 98  F4.2  ---     Prob    ? King (1978, J. Proc. R. Soc. New South Wales,
                                   111, 61) proper motion membership probability
 100-103  A4    ---     XID     The X-ray source identification (2)
 105-112  A8    ---     SpType  Spectral type
 114-142  A29   ---   n_SBL     Other designation for ID (3)
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Note (1): Cl* NGC 2516 SBL NNNN in Simbad
Note (2): XID numbers to 159 are from X-ray study by Jeffries et al.
           (1997MNRAS.287..350J),
          XID numbers 160 to 173 are from Micela et al. (2000A&A...357..909M).
          XID marked as ``X'' are from Chandra observation (Harnden et al.,
           2001ApJ...547L.141H).
Note (3): Other designation:
           C = Cox (1955ApJ...121..628C)
           E = Eggen (1983MNRAS.204..377E)
          AR = Andersen & Reiz (1983A&AS...53..181A)
           D = Dachs (1970A&A.....5..312D)
          DK = Dachs & Kabus (1989A&AS...78...25D)
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History:
    From electronic version of the journal

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(End)                    Greg Schwarz [AAS], Patricia Bauer [CDS]    22-Mar-2002

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