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II/206 Stellar Polarization Bibliography (Belous, 1996)
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The Preliminary Version of the Bibliographic Catalogue of
Stellar Polarization (BCSP)
Belous M.L.
<Bull. Inf. CDS 48, 5 (1996)>
=1996BICDS..48....5B
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ADC_Keywords: Polarization
Description:
This preliminary version of Bibliographic Catalogue of Stellar
Polarization (BCSP) contains data about polarization measurements of
more than 1600 galactic objects published during the period 1977-1981.
All the information included in the Catalogue has been taken from
original papers published during this period. The main goal of the
Catalogue is to present necessary bibliography to explorers studying a
certain object and to give them some primary polarization data
concerning with it.
See the full documentation in file bcsp.doc (or bcsp.tex)
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
authors.bib 146 215 References by Authors
bcsp.doc 76 471 Documentation in ascii format
bcsp.tex 95 408 Documentation in LaTeX format
bcsp.dat 139 1637 The Bibliographical Catalogue of Stellar
Polarization
nocoord.dat 139 22 *Stars without position
refs.dat 96 193 References
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Note on nocoord.dat: positions have been added at CDS for some
of the stars in this file.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: bcsp.dat, nocoord.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 14 A14 --- Name Object identifier, preferably HD (1)
16- 17 I2 h RAh ? Right Ascension 2000 (hours)
19- 22 F4.1 min RAm ? Right Ascension 2000 (minutes)
24 A1 --- DE- ? Declination 2000 (sign)
25- 26 I2 deg DEd ? Declination 2000 (degrees)
28- 29 I2 arcmin DEm ? Declination 2000 (minutes)
31- 42 A12 --- SpType Spectral type (2)
44- 52 F9.5 % p The degree of polarization (3)
54 A1 --- n_Filter [#] '#' for unfiltered measurement
55- 61 A7 --- Filter Names of Johnson-Morgan used filters (4)
63- 64 A2 ---- oFilters Number of other used filters,
or '>' if more than 20.
66- 67 A2 --- x_Lambda Units in which wavelengths are given (4)
69- 74 A6 --- Lambda1 Lower filter bordering (units are x_Lambda)
76- 81 A6 --- Lambda2 Upper filter bordering (units are x_Lambda)
83 I1 --- circPol [0/4] Circular polarization note (5)
84 I1 --- varPol [0/5] Variability of polarization (5)
85 I1 --- lamPol [0/7] Wavelength dependence polarization (5)
86 I1 --- spatPol [0/3] Spatial polarization note (5)
87 I1 --- authPol [0/4] Author's conclusion about
polarization nature (5)
89 A1 --- m_ObsDate [*] '*' when several observation periods (6)
90 I1 --- n_ObsDate [0/4] Indication about duration (6)
92-102 A11 --- ObsDate Observation date (6)
104-113 A10 --- Ref Reference (A&AA number), (7)
115-124 A10 --- Type Object type (8)
126-139 A14 --- Name2 Another object identifier (1)
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Note (1): Object identifiers are mostly taken from the articles in
which these objects are described; when absent, the coordinates
are taken from SIMBAD. See also file bcsp.doc, section IV.
The Greek letters designations used in the Catalogue are:
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: Alpha ALP : Eta ETA : Nu NHU : Tau TAU :
: Beta BET : Theta THE : Xi KSI : Upsilon UPS :
: Gamma GAM : Iota IOT : Omicron OMI : Phi PHI :
: Delta DEL : Kappa KAP : Pi PIE : Chi CHI :
: Epsilon EPS : Lambda LAM : Rho RHO : Psi PSI :
: Zeta ZET : Mu MHU : Sigma SIG : Omega OME :
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Note (2): if an object spectrum was not presented in the original
paper, it was taken from SIMBAD; see also file bcsp.doc, section IV.
Note (3): the degree of linear polarization as determined by
authors, or converted from Stokes parameters.
See byte 83 for circular polarization.
See also file bcsp.doc, section V.
Note (4): the non-standard units are
um micrometers (10-6m)
A angstroms (10-10m)
GH gigahertzs (10+9Hz)
MH megahertzs (10+6Hz)
kV kiloelectronvolts (keV)
See also file bcsp.doc, section VI.
Note (5): the various polarization flags are described in file
bcsp.doc, section VII. The 0 value means "absent" or
"not explored".
Note (6): n_obs takes the values
0 = duration not specified
1 = duration not more than 24 hours
2 = duration between 1day and 1month
3 = duration between 1month and 1year
4 = duration more than 1year
See also file bcsp.doc, section VIII.
Note (7): the references are collected in files gcpbc.bib (sorted by
reference numbers) and authors.bib (sorted by authors).
See also file bcsp.doc, section IX.
Note (8): the object classes are explained in file bcsp.doc, section X.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: refs.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 10 A10 --- Ref Reference (A&AA number)
12- 96 A85 --- Text Full text of reference
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Historical Notes:
* 10-Jul-1995: paper submitted to CDS Information Bulletin
* 02-Apr-1996: a few positions in file "nocoord.dat" were added
at CDS, taken from SIMBAD or Durchmusterung catalogues.
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(End) Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 02-Apr-1996