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The ADC has expanded its resources in order to better serve our users, we have developed a new category called "external" to complement our catalogs and journal table directories. You can access the data set described here through the URL:
http://ddo.astro.utoronto.ca/cepheids.html.

The following is an abbreviated "ReadMe" document that describes this external data set.
E/II/1      DDO Database of Galactic Classical Cepheids    (Fernie+ 1995)
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The David Dunlap Observatory Database of Galactic Classical Cepheids
    Fernie J.D., Beattie B., Evans N.R., Seager S. 
    <International Bulletin of Variable Stars No. 4148 (1995)> 
     =1995IBVS.4148....1F
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, variable; Positional data; External catalog

Location: http://ddo.astro.utoronto.ca/cepheids.html

Description:
   We present a database of over 500 classical Cepheids in the Galaxy 
   contained in four files. The first, Positional Data, contains the 
   equatorial and galactic coordinates of each star, and cross-references 
   to HD and SAO numbers where they exist. The second, Mean Values and 
   Amplitudes, provides mean values of Johnson B and V magnitudes, both as 
   magnitude- and as intensity-means, the corresponding B-V values, the 
   amplitudes in B, V, and B-V, and the radial velocity pulsational 
   amplitudes. The third file, Colour Excess, lists major determinations of 
   E(B-V) and the average for each Cepheid where possible. The fourth file, 
   Physical Data, brings together some material from the other files, as well 
   as listing period, absolute magnitude, distance, height above the galactic  
   plane, mean radius, mean radial velocity, and notes regarding binarity, 
   cluster membership, etc. 

   No individual observations are given. For these see the McMaster Cepheid 
   Photometry and Radial Velocity Data Archive, an extensive compilation of 
   observational data maintained by Doug Welch at McMaster University. 

   Last update: February 18, 1997.

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(End)                     Gail L. Schneider      [ADC/SSDOO]        11-May-1998

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