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VII/11      Share Quasar Cat, Selected Data             (Share ca. 1975) 
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Share Quasar Catalog, Selected Data including the Kitt Peak Quasar Catalog
Sources.
    Share G.
    <Private Communication, ca. 1975>
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ADC_Keywords: QSOs

Description:
  This catalog includes the complete source list with positions 
  of the Kitt Peak Quasar Catalog (de Veny et al., 1971). Other 
  fields in the de Veny catalog (4C ID, B1950 equatorial positions,
  V, B-V, U-B, z, references to ID UBV z, and Notes and other 
  references) are not included. 
 
  The Kitt Peak Quasar Catalog sources were selected based on
  optical data for all confirmed quasars published prior to 
  May or June 1971. This includes objects with only one spectral 
  line. The published catalog includes a bibliography for all 
  quasars with redshifts 

  The source list also includes some additional sources included 
  by the author.

File Summary:
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 FileName       Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
data.dat           34      261   Quasar ID and positions
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: data.dat
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   Bytes  Format   Units   Label    Explanations
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   1- 12   A12     ---     ID       Name of celestial object
  13- 22   F10.4   deg     RAdeg    Right Ascension in degrees (1950.0)
  23- 32   F10.4   deg     DEdeg    Declination in degrees (1950.0)
      34   I1      ---     Flag     [1/2]data Source (1=de Veny et al.; 2=unknown)
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Remarks and Modifications:
  The De Veny Kitt Peak Quasar Catalogue (J. B. De Veny, W. H. Osborn and
  K. Janes 1971, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific,
  83, 611) source list with position has been made machine-readable by 
  Dr. G. Share (Naval Research Laboratory). The information given in this 
  document has been obtained via private communication from Dr. Share.
  No effort has been expended to verify the contents and Dr. Share bears 
  the responsibility for any keypunching errors. The original data file had 
  a column marked X-ray data with zero values throughout and a blank notes
  field. These were removed for the current update. The data were checked
  against the publication list of source names and a flag for the original
  de Veny et al. sources was added. The origin of the other sources is 
  from Share. 

References:
  de Veny J.B., Osborn W.H., and Janes K.A.
    A Catalog of Quasars 
    <Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 83, 611 (1971)>
    =1971PASP...83..611D

Acknowledgements:
  The original ADC documentation by Theresa A. Nagy (1979) was used to
  generate this ReadMe file. Kuin verified the sources and added the 
  flag column.
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(End) N.P.M. Kuin & C.-H. Joseph Lyu [Hughes STX/NASA] 4-4-1996