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III/13      Vyssotsky's Catalogues 1950.0 (Vyssotsky+ 1943,46,52,56,58)
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Vyssotsky's Catalogues 1950.0
    Vyssotsky A.N.
    <Astrophys. J. 97, 381 (1943)>
    =1943ApJ....97..381V
    Vyssotsky A.N., Janssen E.M., Miller N.J., Walther S.J. & Walther M.E.
    <Astrophys. J. 104, 234 (1946)>
    =1946ApJ...104..234V
    Vyssotsky A.N., Mateer B.A.
    <Astrophys. J. 116, 117 (1952)>
    =1952ApJ...116..117V
    Vyssotsky A.N.
    <Astron. J. 61, 201 (1956)>
    =1956AJ.....61..201V
    Vyssotsky A.N.
    <Astron. J. 63, 211 (1958)>
    =1958AJ.....63..211V
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ADC_Keywords: Spectral types; Space velocities

Description:
   This catalog includes the results of a complete survey of the 
   McCormick prismatic spectral plates for M dwarf stars. catalog.dat 
   includes identifications, magnitudes, proper motions in RA and Dec,
   spectral types and parallaxes.

File Summary:
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 FileName       Lrecl       Records       Explanations
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ReadMe             80             .       This file
catalog.dat        48           915       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        Star number
  4-  6      I3        deg      zone      ?BD or AC zone
  7- 11      I5        ---      num       ?BD or AC number
 12- 13      I2        h        RAh       Right ascension hours (1950)
 14- 17      F4.1      min      RAm       Right ascension minutes (1950)
     18      A1        ---      DE-       Sign of declination
 19- 20      I2        deg      DEd       Declination degrees (1950)
 21- 22      I2        arcmin   DEm       Declination minutes (1950)
 23- 26      F4.1      mag      magv      Visual magnitude
 27- 32      F6.3      arcsec   pmRA      ?Proper motion in right ascension
 33- 39      F7.3      arcsec   pmDE      ?Proper motion in declination
 40- 41      A2        ---      Sp        Spectral type
     42      A1        ---      n_Sp      [ep]Suffix for peculiar or emission 
 43- 48      A6        arcsec   Plx       Parallax
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References:
   Vyssotsky A.N. 1943, Astrophys. J. 97, 381.
   Vyssotsky A.N., Janssen E.M., Miller N.J., Walther S.J. & Walther M.E. 1946,
     Astrophys. J. 104, 234.
   Vyssotsky A.N., Mateer B.A. 1952, Astrophys. J. 116, 117.
   Vyssotsky A.N. 1956, Astron. J. 61, 201.
   Vyssotsky A.N. 1958, Astron. J. 63, 211.
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(End)        Julie Anne Watko and N. G. Roman   [SSDOO/ADC]  Nov-06-1997
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