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I/150       Proper Motions for High Luminosity Stars             (Valitova 1989)
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The Catalogue of Proper Motions for High Luminosity Stars
    Valitova A.M., Karimova D.K., Pavlovskaya E.D.
    <CDS Bull. No. 37, p. 177 (1989)>
    =1989BICDS..37..177V
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ADC_Keywords: Proper motions; Stars, luminous

Description:
   Meridian circle observations of high luminosity stars were used to
   supplement previous positions to derive improved proper motions.  The
   proper motions and positions are derived for J2000.0 and for the epoch
   of observation but the systematic correction: FK5-FK4 and the correction
   to FK5 for each star were ignored. V magnitudes and MK spectral types
   are taken from published catalogs.

Introduction:
   The stars selected for observation were taken from lists provided by
   Parenago and by Blaauw supplemented by lists compiled at the Sternberg
   Institute. The proper motions were taken from papers by Karimova,
   Pavlovskaya, and Toropova (1974) and Karimova and Pavlovskaya (1981)
   supplemented by new positional catalogs published after these papers
   were written.

   For GC stars, the number of catalogs used to refine the GC motions is
   given; for other stars, the complete number of catalogs used is listed.
   The method described in the GC (Boss, 1937) is employed with weights of
   additional catalogs taken from Karimova and Pavlovskaya (1971), from the
   published internal errors, or from the table from Karimova and
   Pavlovskaya (1971). To convert from B1950.0 to J2000.0, the standard
   matrix method from the Astronomical Almanac for 1989 was used.

File Summary:
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FileName        Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
catalog.dat       120      309   catalog
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units    Label   Explanations
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   1-  3  I3     ---      ID      Sequential number
   5- 15  A11    ---      HD     *Number in HD catalogue   
  17- 22  A6     ---      Sp      MK spectral and luminosity class
  25- 28  F4.2   mag      V       V magnitude
  32- 33  I2     h        RAh    *Right Ascension (J2000.0) hours
  35- 36  I2     min      RAm     Right Ascension (J2000.0) minutes
  38- 43  F6.3   s        RAs     Right Ascension (J2000.0) seconds
  46      A1     ---      DE-    *Declination (J2000.0) sign
  47- 48  I2     deg      DEd     Declination (J2000.0) degrees
  50- 51  I2     arcmin   DEm     Declination (J2000.0) arcminutes
  53- 57  F5.2   arcsec   DEs     Declination (J2000.0) arcseconds
  62- 69  F8.5   s/a      pmRA    Proper motion in RA equinox J2000.0 (J years)
  71- 77  F7.5   s/a      e_pmRA  Error of pmRA (J years)
  80- 86  F7.2   a        EpRA    Epoch of observations for RA (B years)
  89- 90  I2     ---      catRA  *Number of catalogues RA
  94-100  F7.4   arcsec/a pmDE    Proper motion in DE equinox J2000.0 (J years)
 102-107  F6.4   arcsec/a e_pmDE  Error of pmDE
 110-116  F7.2   a        EpDE    Epoch of observations for DE (B years)
 119-120  I2     ---      catDE  *Number of catalogues DE
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Note on HD:
   If star is absent in HD catalogue, then its BD number is given.

Note on RAh:
Note on DE-:
   Right Ascension and Declination for J2000.0 and for epoch of J2000.0 and for
     epoch of observations in FK5 system.                  

Note on catRA:
Note on catDE:
   Number of catalogues that were used to define more precisely proper motions 
     in Right Ascension or Declination.

References:
   Parenago P.P. Trudy 10 Astrometricheskoy Konferencii, Leningrad, 1954, 
     p.263 - 267.                                     
   Blaauw A. Symposium IAU. N 1, Co-ordination of galactic re-  
     search. Cambridge. University Press. 1955. P. 52-59.         
   Karimova D.K., Pavlovskaya E.D., Toropova M.S., 1974, Proper motions of 
     B stars, Trudy Gos. Astron. Inst. Shternberga, V. 45, P.87 - 94.
   Karimova D.K., Pavlovskaya E.D., 1981, Proper motions of 117 O stars, Sov. 
     Astron. Letters, 7, p. 627 - 631.              
   Karimova D.K., Pavlovskaya E.D., 1971, The weights of 45 star catalogues, 
     Soobshch. Gos. Astron. Inst. Shternberga, No 171, p. 3 - 9.
   Valitova A.M., Karimova D.K., Pavlovskaya E.D., 1990, The catalogue of proper
     motions for high luminosity stars, Submitted to Trudy Gos. Astron. Inst. 
     Shternberga.
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(End)                                  Julie Anne Watko [SSDOO/ADC]  20-MAY-1996