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V/85                Stellar Mass Catalogue (Belikov 1995)
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Stellar Mass Catalogue. Preliminary Version
     Belikov A.N.
    <Bull. Inf. CDS 47, 9 (1995)>
    =1995BICDS..47....9B
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, masses

Description:
    The catalogue includes binary stars for which dynamical masses of
    components has been published in 1969 - 1988. It doesn't contain other
    compilation catalogues that were published in this two decades and uses
    original data papers only. It collects masses defined by direct,
    dynamical methods only (without use of mass-luminosity, mass-radius,
    mass-spectrum and similar relations).
    The work was supervised by Dr O. Malkov.


File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
catalog.dat     99        360    The catalogue
refs.dat       114        246    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- 12  A12    ---     Name     Principal name of the system
  14- 25  A12    ---     OtherID  Secondary identifier of the system
  27- 33  F7.4   solMass M1       Mass of primary component
  35- 40  F6.4   solMass e_M1     ? Mean error on M1
  42- 48  F7.4   solMass M2       Mass of secondary component
  50- 55  F6.4   solMass e_M2     ? Mean error on M2
  57- 58  A2     ---     Method   Method of mass determination (1)
  60- 61  A2     ---     Note     explained in note (5)
  63- 72  A10    ---     AAAref   Reference from AAA (2)
  74- 78  A5     ---     System   Type of system (3)
  80- 99  A20    ---     Sp       Spectral types of the two stars (4)
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Note (1): Methods of mass determination:
  S - methods for double lined spectroscopic binaries:
    The inclination of the system are derived from :
    S0     resolved light curve;
    S1     visual orbit;
    S2     speckle-interferometry;
    S3     polarimetry.
  V - methods for visual binaries:
    Photographic magnitude difference
    V0     is  known;
    V1     is assumed to be zero;
    V2     is calculated from visual magnitudes and spectra;
    V3     is calculated from visual magnitudes and difference
           visual and photographic photocentric semimajor axes;
    V4     is known from speckle - interferometry;
    V5     is calculated from J,H,K magnitude differences.
  R - methods for resolved spectroscopic binaries:
    R0         orbital parallax used.
    R1         trigonometric parallax used.
Note (2): number of the paper in Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts,
    made of Volume . Section . Paper number
    The references are explained in file "refs.dat"
Note (3): Types of system abbreviations, the colon (:) indicates
          an uncertainty:
    Al    Algol-type star
    c     contact system
    ce    evolved contact system
    d     detached system
    dn    dwarf nova
    fl    flare star
    nc    near contact system
    p.RS  precursor of the RS CVn-type system
    R     R CMa-type star
    RS    RS CVn-type star
    S     W Ser-type star
    sd    semidetached system
    W     W UMa-type star
    WA    W UMa-type star,type A
    WB    W UMa-type star,type B
    WR    binary system with Wolf-Raet star
    WW    W UMa-type star,type W
Note (4): Spectra abbreviations:
    e.    early
    m.    middle
    l.    late
    ?     unknown spectrum
   (Sp)   questionable spectrum
    +     division of primary and secondary component spectra
    ;     division of composed spectrum of system and component's spectra
    -     uncertainty in spectral class
    /     uncertainty in luminosity class
Note (5): Individual Notes:
    a authors calculated all needed parameters, but didn't
      calculate final masses.
    b the trigonometric parallax used too.
    c authors used dynamic parallax to calculate sum of mass, but
      the system has trigonometric parallax the same. Authors calculated
      all needed parameters, but didn't calculate final masses.
    d authors used dynamic parallax to calculate sum of mass but
      the system has trigonometric parallax the same.
    1 the second of this pair is the intrinsic variable star .
    2 to determine mass ratio authors used self-determined
      radial velocities.
    3 with mass ratio from Wilson & Devinney , ApJ 182, 539, 1973
    4 the final stage of the B-type W UMa configuration
    5 used orbit from Lippincott S.L., 1981, PASP 93, 376
    6 used orbit from Russell & Gatewood, 1983, PASP 96, 429
    7 a system between Roche-lobe filling stage of case C
      (post-helium flash) mass transfer
    8 1) the primary is near filling its Roche lobe;
      2) intrinsic activity is detected;
      3) a member of NGC 752.
    9 the secondary is intrinsic variable of delta Scuti type.
   10 these system is a member of open cluster NGC 6231 of the Sco OB1
      association.
   11 sp.elements from Struve & Gratton, 1948, ApJ 108, 497
   12 sp.elements from Struve & Zetergi, 1959, ApJ 130, 789
   13 sp.elements from King & Hilditch , 1984, MNRAS 209, 645
   14 this system is passing through a transition state from a
      semidetached configuration, reached via case A mass transfer
      episode to become an evolved and deep-contact A-type W UMa system.
   15 UV Cet is B - component of L726-8(A+B).
   16 using sp.elements by Harper W.E., Pearce J.A., Petrie R.M.,
      Mckellar A., JRASC 29, 411, 1935
   17 using sp.elements by Popper D.M., ApJ 166, 366, 1971
   18 primary component is the beta-Cepheid star.
   19 Algol-type eclipsing binary with an evolved and less-massive
      secondary component (must be filling it's Roche lobe)
   20 this system has more than two stars (from anomalous large
      total mass) maybe.
   21 the secondary has evolved G9 spectrum.
   22 the system has third component of A7V spectrum.
   23 the system has third component.
   24 the system has third component of K5 spectrum.
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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    ---     AAAref   Reference as in "catalog.dat"
  12-114  A103   ---     Text     of reference
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Historical Notes:
    The decimal points have been added where necessary.
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(End)                                     Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]  19-Jul-1995

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