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J/MNRAS/325/1365   Solar neighbourhood metallicity distribution (Haywood+, 2001)
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A revision of the solar neighbourhood metallicity distribution.
     Haywood M.
    <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 325, 1365 (2001)>
    =2001MNRAS.325.1365H
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, dwarfs ; Abundances, [Fe/H] ; Photometry, UBV
Keywords: stars: late-type - Galaxy: abundances - Galaxy: evolution -
          solar neighbourhood

Abstract:
    We present a revised metallicity distribution of dwarfs in the solar
    neighbourhood. This distribution is centered on solar metallicity. We
    show that previous metallicity distributions, selected on the basis of
    spectral type, are biased against stars with solar metallicity or
    higher. A selection of G-dwarf stars is inherently biased against
    metal-rich stars and is not representative of the solar neighbourhood
    metallicity distribution. Using a sample selected on colour, we obtain
    a distribution where approximately half the stars in the solar
    neighbourhood have metallicities higher than [Fe/H]=0. The percentage
    of mid-metal-poor stars ([Fe/H}<-0.5) is approximately 4 per cent, in
    agreement with the present estimates of the thick disc.

File Summary:
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ReadMe            80        .   This file
table3.dat        28      348   The list of 348 stars
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See also:
   I/239 : The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues (ESA 1997)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  6  I6    ---     HIP       HIP (Cat. <I/239>) number
   9- 13  F5.2  Sun     [Fe/H]    Metallicity
  16- 19  F4.2  mag     VMAG      Absolute V magnitude
  22- 25  F4.2  mag     B-V       B-V colour index
      27  A1    ---     ST        [*] * : Selected long-lived dwarf stars
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History:
    Prepared via OCR at CDS.
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(End)                         James Marcout, Patricia Bauer [CDS]    09-Oct-2001
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