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V/31A               Kinematic data for O-B5 stars    (Rubin+, 1962)
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Catalogue of Kinematic Data for O-B5 stars
     Rubin V.C., Burley J., Kiasatpoor A., Klock B., Pease G.,
     Rutscheidt E., Smith C.
    <Astron. J. 67, 491 (1962)>
    =1962AJ.....67..491R                (SIMBAD/NED Reference)
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, early-type ; Stars, OB ; Radial velocities ;
              Space velocities

Description:
    This document describes the magnetic tape version of a catalog of
    1440 O-B5 star with radial velocities accurate to within 5 km/sec,
    located within 3 kpc of the sun and within 10 degrees of the
    galactic equator.

    Radial velocities, luminosities and spectral classifications have
    been included from the literature; proper motions have been
    compiled for 898 of the stars.

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
catalog.dat    179       1440    The catalogue
refs.dat        80         74    References
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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-  4  I4     ---     Num      [1/1440]+ Running number
       5  A1     ---     pmPubl   [*] "*" if star has a published
                                    proper motion
   7-  8  I2     ---     r_RVel   [1/16]? Source for radial velocity if
                                    not in GCRV (see "refs" file)
  10- 14  I5     ---     GCRV     [1/15037]? GCRV (Wilson ref. 58) number
  16- 21  I6     ---     HD       [1/350000]? Henry Draper (HD) Catalogue
                                    number
  22- 30  A9     ---     Other    Identifier if no HD number was available (1)
  32- 36  I5     0.01deg GLON     [0/36000[ Galactic longitude
  38- 42  I5     0.01deg GLAT     [-9000/+9000] Galactic latitude
  44- 45  I2     h       RAh      Right ascension in hours [B1950]
  46- 48  I3     0.1min  RAdm     Right ascension in tenths of minutes [B1950]
      50  A1     ---     DE-      Sign of declination
  51- 52  I2     deg     DEd      Declination degrees [B1950]
  53- 54  I2     arcmin  DEm      Declination arcminutes [B1950]
  55- 60  F6.1   km/s    RVel     Radial velocity
  61- 65  F5.2   mag     Vmag     ? Visual or Photographic magnitude
                                    (see n_Vmag)
      66  A1     ---     n_Vmag   [PV:+] Remark on Vmag (2)
  68- 79  A12    ---     SpType   Spectral classification, on the MK
                                    system when available
  81- 83  I3     0.1mag  AbsMag   Absolute magnitude (M) when available,
                                    most often from Johnson and Iriarte
                                    (1958, ref.25)
      84  A1     ---     n_AbsMag [*] The "*" indicates stars with no
                                    luminosity class available; class V was
                                    assumed and Johnson-Iriarte calibration
                                    adopted
  85- 88  F4.2   mag     Av       [0/6]?=9.99 Visual absorption (Av) (3)
  90- 92  I3     0.1mag  m-M      []?=999 Distance modulus computed from m-M-Av
      93  A1     ---     n_m-M    [*] "*" indicates that photometric data
                                    were missing for second star in a binary
  95- 96  I2     ---     r_Vmag   [1/60]? Source for visual apparent
                                    magnitude Vmag
  99-100  I2     ---     r_Sp     [1/60] Source for spectral classification
 103-104  I2     ---     r_AbsMag [1/60]? Source for absolute magnitude M
 107-108  I2     ---     r_Av     [1/60]? Source for visual absorption Av
 110-112  I3    0.1ms/yr pmRA     ? Proper motion in right ascension
 114-116  I3     mas/yr  pmDE     ? Proper motion in declination
 118-120  I3     mas/yr  pmGLON   ? Proper-motion in galactic longitude
 122-124  I3     mas/yr  pmGLAT   ? Proper-motion in galactic latitude
 126-127  I2     100pc   r        ? Heliocentric Distance computed from (m-M)
 129-131  I3     100pc   R        ? Galactocentric distance (Rsun=8.2kpc)
 133-136  I4     km/s    Tl       ? Tangential motion in galactic frame (4)
 138-141  I4     km/s    Tb       ? Tangential motion in galactic frame (4)
 143-146  I4     km/s    xdot     ? Space motion of the star (4)
 148-151  I4     km/s    ydot     ? Space motion of the star (4)
 153-156  I4     km/s    zdot     ? Space motion of the star (4)
 158-161  I4     km/s    cirVel   ? Circular velocity (ortho-radial in
                                    the galactocentric frame)
 163-165  I3     km/s   e_cirVel  ? Probable error on cirVel
 167-170  I4     km/s    Pi       ? Radial velocity in the galactocentric frame
 171-173  I3     km/s    e_Pi     ? Probable error on Pi
 175-179  A5     ---     pmRef    References for proper motions (5)
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Note (1): If no HD number is available, this designation represents
    depending on byte 22:
    "+" or "-" : sign of Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) or
                 Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD)
                 For BD and CPD numbers, form is ZZNNNNNL where
                       ZZ = absolute value of declination zone
                    NNNNN = number within zone
                        L = blank, or "A", "B", etc.
           "A" : Aitken Double Star Catalogue number
           "I" : Index Catalogue (IC) number
           "K" : Rspteyn (K) Selected Area number
           "M" : Messier's (M) Catalogue number
           "N" : New General Catalogue (NGC) number
Note (2): the following remark concerns the magnitude:
     "P" indicates a photographic magnitude;
     "V" refers to a variable;
     "+" indicates a variable photographic
     ":" indicates last digit is uncertain
Note (3): the absorption is most often from (B-V) measures.
    A value of 3 for the ratio of total to selective absorption has
    been assumed. The entry Av = 0.0 indicates that the computed value
    was negative, but always equal to 0.0 to one decimal place.
Note (4): velocity not corrected for the solar motion
Note (5): References of proper motions:
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                                                      Number   Prob.Err.
    #                                                 Stars     (mas/yr)
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    1   Bertiau, F. C., S. J. 1958                       30       3
          Astrophys. J., 128, 533.
    2   Morgan, H. R. 1956, Astron. J., 61, 90.         304       3
    3   Morgan, H. R. 1952, Astron. Papers Am.           51       3
          Ephemeris and Naut. Almanac XIII, part III.
    4   Trans. Astron. Obs. Yale University,             78       4
          24, 1953; 25, 1954; 26, 1959; 27, 1959.
    5   Annals Cape Observatory, XVII, 1954;              35      7
          XVIII, 1954; XIX, 1958; XX, 1958.
    6   Boss, B. 1937, General Catalogue of             211       6
          33 342 Stars for Epoch 1950 (Carnegie
          Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.)
    7   Trans. Astron. Obs. Yale University,            185       7
          12, 1940; 13, 1943; 14, 1943; 16, 1945;
          17, 1945; 18, 1947; 19, 1948; 20, 1949;
          21, 1950; 22, 1950.
    8   Reiz, A., 1957, Ann. Lund Obs. 14,1               3       6
    9   Morgan, H.R., 1933, Publ. U.S. Naval Obs.         1       6
          2nd Ser. XIII, 163.
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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-  2  I2    ---    RefNo   [1,60] Reference number, repeated when
                                     several lines
      3  A1    ---    ---     [.]
  5- 80  A76   ---    Text    Text of reference
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Historical Notes:
  * September 1981 (Jaylee M. Mead, Robert S. Hill, ADC):
    The magnetic tape version of this catalog was obtained from the
    Centre de Donnees Stellaires (CDS), Strasbourg; it differed from
    the original catalog in that the spectral type and source
    references for the apparent magnitude, spectral type, absolute
    magnitude, absorption and proper motion were omitted.
    To facilitate processing of the data by computer, we have done the
    following:
      1. Restored the spectral type and all source references
      2. Combined Tables I and IV of the published catalog by adding the
         data for the 898 proper motion stars from Table IV to the appropriate
         entry in Table I, as indicated by the asterisk in Table I immediately
         following the running star number. The only entries omitted in the
         combined table were those which were duplicated in Table IV: star
         number, galactic longitude and radial velocity.
      3. Separated out the Henry Draper Catalog numbers into one field with
         all other identifiers in the next field; also, separated radial
         velocity references into a separate field from the GCRV numbers.
      4. Filled blank M, Av, and (m-M) fields with nines.
  * 14-Feb-1995 (J.Florsch and F.Ochsenbein, CDS):
    => inserted the decimal point in columns RVel, Vmag and Av to avoid
       any misinterpretation of missing decimals
    => corrected individual record 105 = HD 169271
  * 17-Apr-2000 (F. Ochsenbein, CDS): added the description of refs.dat
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(End)                                         Joseph Florsch [CDS]   13-Feb-1995

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