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II/199A Radio continuum emission form stars (Wendker, 1995)
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Radio continuum emission from stars: a catalogue update
WENDKER H.J.
<Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 109, 177 (1995)>
=1995A&AS..109..177W (SIMBAD/NED Reference)
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ADC_Keywords: Radio sources ; Stars, radio ;
Keywords: catalogues - stars: general - radio continuum: stars
Contents:
The following catalogue is an updated and changed version of the
one first published in Abh.Hamburger Sternw. 1978, Vol.10, p 1ff.
(CDS Catalogue II/129)
A second version was contained in: Astron.Astrophys.Suppl. 1987,
Vol.69, p 87 and microfiches (CDS Catalogue II/147).
The basic concept of the earlier versions is preserved, namely one
entry per star per frequency per paper. Space is now provided,
however, to add more informations. These may be of technical or
astronomical nature. Usually month and year of observation and the
number of independent data points or length of monitoring session
are given.
All radio data are preceded by a header which contains information
on the star or stellar system. (Note, that a physical stellar
system is regarded as one single entry and that comments
pertaining to individual components are found directly behind the
observational data). Stellar data like names, position, proper
motion, magnitudes and spectroscopic types are given in fixed
format in a self-explanatory fashion. It is tried to have typical
values from commonly available references. It is not intended to
compete here with other compilations. These header informations
are collected when the star is entered for the first time. They
are only changed when new values are available while additional
radio refences are added. An arbitrarily expandable section for
unformatted text finishes the header. Finally, the units of the
radio data remain in MHz (1.column) and mJy (2. and 3. columns).
All coordinates refer to epoch and equinox 1950.0 (e.g. B1950).
This is a so-called merged version e.g. all stars, those detected
at least ones and those with upper limits only, are listed in
order of ascending right ascension. The detected stars are marked
with a "D" in the outermost right hand column in lines 1 to 5.
The last updating occurred on 1994-Jul-01. In this version stars
have new running numbers.
Description:
Radio data
(1) Frequency in MHz
(2) Maximun flux density in mJy
(3) Minimun flux density in mJy. if =0, only one observation was made or the
emission was steady
(4) Code number of the reference
(5) Remarks pertaining to the individual observations
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
catalog 100 31148 The catalogue
refs 100 1057 References
stars.dat 72 3021 Positions and designations of the stars
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: stars.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 4 I4 --- No [1/3021]+ Running number
6- 20 A15 --- Name Main designation
22- 39 A18 --- Alias Other name
46- 47 I2 h RAh Right Ascension 1950 (hours)
49- 50 I2 min RAm Right Ascension 1950 (minutes)
52- 58 F7.4 s RAs Right Ascension 1950 (seconds)
60 A1 --- DE- Declination 1950 (sign)
61- 62 I2 deg DEd Declination 1950 (degrees)
64- 65 I2 arcmin DEm Declination 1950 (minutes)
67- 72 F6.3 arcsec DEs [0/60[? Declination 1950 (seconds)
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Historical Notes:
* 08-Dec-1994: stored as received
* 08-Feb-1995: the file "stars" is generated from "catalog" with positions
and identifications of all 3021 stars
* 26-Nov-1998: corrected file "stars.dat", several identifications found
in error.
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(End) Francois Ochsenbein, Patricia Bauer [CDS] 26-Nov-1998
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