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III/74      Faint Blue Stars near the South Galactic Pole    (Haro+ 1962)
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Faint Blue Stars in the Region near the South Galactic Pole
      Haro G., Luyten W.J.
     <Bol. Tonantzintla y Tacubaya 22, 37 (1962)>
     =1962BITon...3...37H
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, blue; Stars, faint; Galactic pole, south;
              Stars, faint blue ; Stars, white dwarf ; QSOs

Description:
    A search for faint  blue  stars  conducted  at  the  Observatories  of
    Tonantzintla and Minnesota has yielded 8746 objects which are somewhat
    blue.  The data  file is organized  into three sections  with the same
    column  format.  The first 1569 records are for stars with U-V of -0.4
    or bluer, which are very definitely blue (Table II of the paper).  The
    next  2929 stars are somewhat  blue,  with U-V values  of -0.3 or -0.2
    (Table  III of the paper).  The final 4248 records give data for stars
    with U-V of -0.1 or 0.0 (Table IV of the paper).

    Photometric,  spectroscopic,  and  proper-motion data  have later been
    acquired  for these objects,  which revealed  the great variety of the
    objects in this catalogue:  white dwarfs,  subdwarfs,  QSOs (quasars),
    compact and  active galaxies.   Finding charts  and details  about the
    nature of these blue objects can be found in the following papers:
    Haro G., and Chavira E.: 1987RMxAA..15..107H ;
    Chavira E.: 1988RMxAA..16..123C, Chavira E., 1990RMxAA..20...47C,
            and 1992RMxAA..24..139C

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
phl.dat         39       8746    The PHL (Palomar-Haro-Luyten) Catalog
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See also:
    III/64 : Catalog of blue objects at high galactic latitudes (Berger+, 1980)
    II/111 : Faint Blue Stars in high Galactic Latitudes III (Berger+ 1984)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: phl.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  4  I4    ---     PHL       Object designation
   6-  7  I2    h       RAh       Right Ascension B1950 (hours)
   9- 12  F4.1  min     RAm       Right Ascension B1950 (minutes)
      14  A1    ---     DE-       Declination B1950 (sign)
  15- 16  I2    deg     DEd       Declination B1950 (degrees)
  18- 19  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination B1950 (minutes)
  21- 24  F4.1  mag     Pmag      Photographic blue magnitude
  26- 29  F4.1  mag     B-V       ? Photographic color (first 1569 records)
  31- 34  F4.1  mag     U-B       ? Photographic color (first 1569 records)
  36- 39  F4.1  mag     U-V       ? Photographic color
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History:
  * Keypunched at CDS in 1982.
  * 30-Dec-1996: Short description by Julie Anne Watko [SSDOO/ADC]
  * 01-Jan-2001: Standardized at CDS (Francois Ochsenbein)
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(End)                                   Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]    01-Jan-2001