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II/149 Diffuse Interstellar Band Measurements (Snow+ 1977)
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Catalogue of Diffuse Interstellar Band Measurements
Snow Jr. T.P., York D.G., Welty D.E.
<Astron. J., 82, 113 (1977)>
=1977AJ.....82..113S
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ADC_Keywords: Interstellar medium ; Spectroscopy
Description:
This catalog contains diffuse band data collected from an exhaustive
search of the literature and reduced to a common measurement system.
The authors have adopted Herbig (1975ApJ...196..129H) as a standard
data set for DIB measurements.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
catalog 120 2798 Diffuse band data (Table III(b) of paper)
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See also:
II/135 : Supplement to the Catalog of DIB (Guarinos, 1988)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 14 A14 --- Name Designation of the star
16- 21 F6.2 deg GLON ? Galactic longitude (4)
24- 29 F6.2 deg GLAT ? Galactic latitude (4)
30 A1 --- Note [*] '*' See Note (4)
34- 39 F6.3 % Ac4430 ? Central depth of the continuum at 4430 A (1)
42- 46 F5.3 0.1nm W5780 ? Equivalent width (in A) of 5780 A line (1)
49- 53 F5.3 0.1nm W5797 ? Equivalent width (in A) of 5797 A line (1)
58- 62 F5.3 0.1nm W6284 ? Equivalent width (in A) of 6284 A line (1)
64- 69 F6.3 mag E(B-V) ? Colour excess in the UBV system
75- 78 F4.2 um lambda ? Wavelength, given in microns, at which
the polarization is maximum
84- 87 F4.2 % MaxPol ? Maximum value of the polarization (2)
89- 93 F5.2 mag Vmag ? Magnitude
96-112 A17 --- SpType MK spectral type
113-115 I3 --- Ref1 [0/430] Reference for position,
photometry and spectroscopy (3)
118-120 I3 --- RefIDB [1/430]? Reference for Interstellar Data (3)
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Note (1):
These measurements have been converted statistically to a common
measurement system by the authors, adopting the data of
Herbig (1975ApJ...196..129H) as the standard data set,
and using a least-squares fitting method.
Note (2):
These polarization data are primarily from
Hiltner (1956ApJS....2..389H) or
Serkowski et al. (1975ApJ...196..261S) or from the several
references given in the latter paper.
Note (3):
The references below 100 indicate the diffuse band reference
(from table II of paper):
1. Murdin (1972MNRAS.157..461M)
3. Snow (1973AJ.....78..913S)
4. Wu (1972ApJ...178..681W)
5. Duke (1951ApJ...113..100D)
6. Walker (1963MNRAS.125..141W) (first system)
7. Walker (1963MNRAS.125..141W) (second system)
8. Merrill et al (1937ApJ....86..274M)
9. Underhill (1956PDAO...10..201U)
10. Stoeckly and Dressler (1964ApJ...139..240S)
11. Wampler (1966ApJ...144..921W)
12. Walker and Hodge (1965PDAO...12..401W)
14. Bromage and Nandy (1973A&A....26...17B)
15. Marionni (1971, unpublished)
17. Butler and Seddon (1958PROE....2..113B)
18. Butler and Seddon (1960PROE....2..187B)
21. Greenstein and Aller (1950ApJ...111..328G)
22. Beals and Blanchet (1938MNRAS..98..398B)
23. Baerentzen et al (1967JO.....50...83B)
24. Gammelgaard (1975A&A....43...85G)
30. Herbig (1975ApJ...196..129H)
The references above 100 indicate other general catalogues,
eventually combined with a diffuse band reference:
100-130 Catalogue of Kennedy and Buscombe (1974; see Cat. <III/78>),
plus the diffuse band reference corresponding to the last
two digits.
200-230 Blanco et al (1968 ; see Cat. <II/4>) plus the corresponding
diffuse band reference
300-330 Hiltner (1956ApJS....2..389H) plus the corresponding diffuse
band reference
400-430 Bonner Durchmusterung (Cat. <I/122> and <I/119>),
or Cordoba Durchmusterung (Cat. <I/114>), plus the
corresponding diffuse band reference
Note (4): be aware that some positions (especially those with Ref1=24
from Gammelgaard, 1975A&A....43...85G) are only accurate to 0.1deg!
The * in the Note column indicates that the position is missing
in the published table, and was added in February 1997 with the
help of the SIMBAD data-base.
There are however 3 stars with missing positions, all from
Walker (1963MNRAS.125..141W):
Arp e and Arp b (designated as "Special Cases" SC 900002 and
SC 900003 in the published table), and BD+61 2615 (which does
not exist in Bonner Durchmusterung)
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History:
* The catalogue was keypunched at CDS under the control of J. Guarinos.
in 1988.
* The description was added by Julie Anne Watko [ADC] in June 1996.
* The "catalog" file was recreated and checked in February 1997
at CDS (Francois Ochsenbein). Some missing positions were added
(stars flagged in column Note, byte 30); a few misalignments were
corrected. The blank positions, magnitudes and spectral types in
consecutive records dealing with the same star were also filled.
Acknowledgements:
CDS would like to thank Mme F. Boisselier for the typing of the
machine readable version of the catalogue.
References:
Baerentzen, Gammelgaard, Hilberg, Jorgenson, Kristenson, Nissen, and
Rudkjobing (1967) J. Obs. 50, 83.
Beals and Blanchet (1938) M.N.R.A.S. 98, 398.
Blanco, Demers, Douglas, and Fitzgerald (1968) Pub. U.S. Naval Obs. 21, 1.
Bromage and Nandy (1973) A.A. 26, 17.
Butler and Seddon (1958a) Publ. R. Obs. Edin. 2, 113.
Butler and Seddon (1958b) Publ. R. Obs. Edin. 2, 187.
Duke (1951) Ap. J. 113, 100.
Gammerlgaard (1975) A.A. 43, 85.
Greenstein and Aller (1950) Ap.J. 111, 328.
Herbig (1975) Ap.J. 196, 129.
Hiltner (1956) Ap.J.Suppl. 2, 389.
Kennedy and Buscombe (1974) MK, Spectral Classifications
Published Since Jaschek's La Plata Catalogue (Northwestern U.,
Evanston, IL).
Marionni (1971) Unpublished.
Merrill, Sanford, Wilson, and Burwell (1937) Ap.J. 86, 274.
Murdin (1972) M.N.R.A.S. 157, 461.
Serkowski, Mathewson, and Ford (1975) Ap.J. 196, 261.
Snow (1973) A.J. 78, 913.
Snow, York, and Welty (1977) A.J. 82, 113.
Stoeckly and Dressler (1964) Ap.J. 139, 240.
Underhill (1956) Publ. DAO 10, 201.
Walker (1963) M.N.R.A.S. 125, 141.
Walker and Hodge (1966) Publ. DAO 12, 401.
Wampler (1966) Ap.J. 144, 921.
Wu (1972) Ap.J. 178, 681.
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(End) Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 27-Feb-1997
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