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III/184      3rd Bibliog. Cat. of Stellar Radial Vel. (Barbier-Brossat+, 1994)
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Troisieme Catalogue Bibliographique de Vitesses Radiales Stellaires
     Barbier-Brossat M., Petit M., Figon P.
    <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 108, 603 (1994)>
    =1994A&AS..108..603B
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ADC_Keywords: Radial velocities
Keywords: catalogs - techniques: radial velocities - stars: kinematics

Abstract:
    We publish a Bibliographic  Catalogue  of  Stellar  Radial  Velocities
    including  about 44000 entries for Galactic and Magellanic Cloud stars
    for the  years 1971-1990.  The two  preceding issues  published (1989,
    A&AS, 80,  67 and  1990, A&AS  85, 885)  are mixed  with the  new data
    covering the years 1986-1990.

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 FileName       Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
catalog.dat       121    43821   Third bibliographic catalogue of
                                  stellar radial velocities
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See also:
    III/190 : The Wilson-Evans-Batten (WEB) Catalogue

Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units    Label     Explanations
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   1-  6  I6     ---      HD        [1/358431]? HD number
       7  A1     ---      m_HD      Multiplicity index on HD (1)
   9- 19  A11    ---      DM        DM identification (BD, CP, or CD number)
      20  A1     ---      m_DM      Multiplicity index on DM (1)
  22- 24  A3     ---      WEB       [WEB ] "Catalogue de synthese" 
                                      reference (2)
  26- 42  A17    ---      OtherName Other designations
  44- 45  I2     h        RAh       Right ascension 1950
  47- 50  F4.1   min      RAm       Right ascension 1950
      51  A1     ---      u_RAm     [*] Uncertainty flag on right ascension
      52  A1     ---      DE-       Declination sign
  53- 54  I2     deg      DEd       Declination 1950
  56- 57  I2     arcmin   DEm       Declination 1950
      59  A1     ---      n_Vmag    [*V] 'V' for Variable;
                                      '*' if Vmag is a B or photographic 
                                      magnitude
  60- 64  F5.2   mag      Vmag      []? V magnitude (B or photographic 
                                      magnitude if n_Vmag = *)
      65  A1     ---      u_Vmag    [:*] uncertainty flag on Vmag;  * indicates
                                      very uncertain (::) value
  66- 75  A10    ---      Sp        Spectral type
  77- 83  F7.2   km/s     RV        []? Heliocentric radial velocity
  84- 85  A2     ---      u_RV      [: ] Uncertainty flag on RV
                                      (an unexplained * exists for HD 49212)
      87  A1     ---      q_RV      [ABCDE*:] Quality from A (very good)
                                      to E (very poor)
  89- 91  I3     ---      o_RV      []? Number of (new) measurements
  93- 96  A4     ---      Rem       Remark (3)
  98-101  A4     0.1nm/mm Disp      Dispersion (4)
 103-115  A13    ---      Ref       Reference as Journal Code, Volume, Page (5)
 116-119  A4     ---      Year      Year of publication
     121  A1     ---      Rem2      Remarks. '*' indicates remark in note (6)
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Note (1): Uppercase letters are used for visual double stars,
     lowercase letters for spectroscopic double stars. In the second case,
     the letter 'a' has been replaced by the letter 'i' . The symbol '/'
     indicates that the measure concerns 2 stars with consecutive HD
     numbers or that the radial velocity is relative to the measure of the
     2 components of the same star.
Note (2): Letters W, E and B are related to the "Catalogue General de Synthese"
     realised from the catalogues of Wilson, Evans and Batten
     (catalog <III/190>)
Note (3): The following abbreviations are used:
     CEPH:  Cepheid. The mean velocity is then provided.
     DBL, TRI, QUAD, MUL: double, triple, quadruple, multiple star respectively
     DE:   eclipsing binary
     DS, DS1, DS2: spectroscopic binary, with 1 or 2 line systems
     EM:   velocity calculated from emission lines
     ORB:  orbit; the star systemic velocity is provided
               (unexplained 'E' for Cyg X-1)
     RRLY: RR Lyrae star. The RR lyrae star gravity center is provided
     STND: IAU standard star
     VAR:  variable radial velocity, according to the author.
Note (4): Dispersion used for the radial velocity determination.
     If the published velocity is the mean of several velocities obtained
     with very different dispersions, there is no value of the dispersion.
     Otherwise, we mention the lowest dispersion used preceded by the
     symbol <.
     COR: velocities are measured with a correlation spectrophotometer
Note (5): List of abbreviations used for the Journals:
     AA       Acta Astronomica
     AAP      Astronomy and Astrophysics
     AAPS     Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
     AAOB     Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory Bulletin
     AFA      Arkiv fur Astrophysik
     AJ       Astronomical Journal
     AN       Astronomische Nachrichten
     AP       Astrophysics (URSS)
     APJ      Astrophysical Journal
     APJS     Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
     ASS      Astrophysics and Space Science
     AT       Annals of the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory
     BAAA     Boletin de la Asociacion Argentina de Astronomia
     BAAS     Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
     BAIC     Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of Czechoslovakia
     BOTT     Boletin de Los Observatorios Tonantzintla y Tacubaya
     CAO      Bulletin de l'Observatoire de Crimee
     CRAS     Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris
     DAO      Publications of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
     HA       Highlights os Astronomy
     IAUS     International Astronomical Union Symposium
     IBVS     Information Bulletin on Variable Stars
     JAA      Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (Inde)
     JO       Journal des Observateurs
     MAG      Mittelungen Astronomische Gesellschaft
     MAKL     Mededelingen van Het Astronomich Institut van de Katholieke
                    Universiteit Leuven
     MEM      Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society
     MES      The Messenger (ESO)
     MN       Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
     MNAS     Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society of Sotuh Africa
     MSAI     Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana
     OBS      The Observatory
     PASJ     Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
     PASA     Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
     PASP     Publications of the Astronomical Society of Pacific
     PCAO     Publication Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
     PDDO     Publications of the David Dunlap Observatory
     POAS     Publications de l'Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg
     POCC     Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Cerro Calan, Publicaciones
     POGB     Publications de l'Observatoire de Geneve, Serie B
     RASC     Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
     RASV     Ricerche Astronomiche Specola Vaticana
     RGOA     Royal Greenwich Observatory Annals
     RMAA     Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica
     ROB      Royal Observatory Bulletin
     SA       Soviet Astronomy
     SAL      Soviet Astronomy - Letters
     SAOC     South African Astronomical Observatory Circulars
     VA       Vistas in Astronomy
Note (6): Remarks:
   - Ma 260 in AAP 17, 253-1972. We deleted the BD identification given by the
      author because it doesn't correspond to the star coordinates
   - LTT 664 = CD-44 334 instead of CD-44 344 in AJ 84, 1553-1979
   - Fl 770 in POAS 2, 1-1972. The published coordinates don't correspond to
      those of star CP-74 106. We deleted this identification.
   - HD 11154 = HR 530 instead of HD 11155 in APJS 62, 147
   - HD 22484 = BD-0 572 instead of BD+0 572 in AAPS 71, 253
   - vB 188 instead of vB 178 in AJ 88, 844-1983 from published coordinates
   - HD 36486 in APJ 214, 759-1977. The systemic velocity +118.3 published 
      seems wrong compared with other publications. This velocity might be 
      +18.3
   - Gl  234A instead of 243A in APJS 314, 272-1987
   - NGC 2287 c4  =  HD 49105 in AAPS 62, 301-1985. The coordinates and the
      spectral type published in the paper don't correspond to those of HD.
      We deleted this identification.
   - HD 86612 instead of HD 86162 in AAPS 63, 87-1986
   - CC Com in PASP 89, 684-1977. The coordinates are different from those of
      the "Catalogue d'Etoiles Variables" by Kukarkin.
   - HD 112211 instead of 12211 in AJ 89, 1897-1984
   - HD 119191 instead of 19191 in AJ 89, 1897-1984
   - CD-29 10863 instead of CD-20 10863 in AJ 89, 1897-1984
   - HD 129981 instead of HD 129881 in MN 159, 67-1972
   - HD 151985 instead of 151895 in APJS 64, 487-1982
   - Case 437 in AJ 81, 364-176. We adopted the coordinates from Case catalogue
      which differ slightly from the published ones.
   - CD-23 13997 instead of CP-23 13997 in MN 158, 85-1972
   - CD-23 13998 instead of CP-23 13998 in MN 158, 85-1972
   - CD-35 12911 in POCC 2, 40-1970. The author coordinates differ from
      those indicated in SIMBAD, which we have adopted.
   - APJS 73, 843-1990. There is some confusion between the corresponding
      numbers.
        cya 51=CCS 2866=nb 201
        cya 50=CCS 2862=nb 202
        cya 77=CCS 2873
        cya 76=CCS 2874
   - BD+15  4915 instead of BD+15  4914 in PASP 97, 1086-1985

General remarks:
   - MN 230, 273-1988 = DAO 16, 297-1988. The stars in these two articles are
      identical. We only retained the DAO paper, which was earlier.
   - AJ 87, 1679-1982 and AJ 94, 1600-1987. Some stars are in the two papers
      with the same data. In this case, the second publication was ignored.
   - APJS  64, 487-1987. We detected errors in the mean radial velocities,
      and we recalculated mean RV
   - AAPS 48, 409-1982. As requested by the authors, the radial velocities
      published there replace those form AAPS 13, 173, 1974:
      the latter data were removed from the catalogue.
   - AJ 93, 463-1987. These stars are from the study of van den Berg (1971),
      and they differ from those indicated in SIMBAD which are from an
      earlier publication of the same author (1966).
   - Corrections have been made in the papers AAPS 43, 297-1981, AAPS 49,
      483-1982, AAPS 58, 435-1984 et AAPS 68, 515-1987, with the authorisation
      of the authors.
   - AAPS 4, 231-1971. The corrections published by the author in the erratum
      in AAPS 16, 277-1974 have been taken into account.
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References:
 Batten A.H. et al., 1989,  Pub. Dominion Astroph. Observ. Vol. XVII, p.1-317
  =Catalogue <V/64>
 Duflot et al., Catalogue General de Synthese (in preparation)
  =Catalogue <III/190>
 Evans D.S. 1970, Catalogue de Vitesses Radiales Moyennes (private comm.)
 Van den Berg, 1966, AJ 71, 990, =1966AJ.....71..990V
 Van den Berg, 1971, AJ 76, 1083 =1971AJ.....76.1083V
 Wilson R.E., 1953, General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities,
   Carnegie Inst. of Washington Publ. 601, Washington D.C.
   =Catalogue <III/21>
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(End)                                         Patricia Bauer [CDS]   05-Jan-1995

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