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J/A+A/275/163      Luminous Carbon stars in Galactic Plane  (Kastner+ 1993)
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Probing the AGB tip: luminous carbon stars in the galactic plane
     Kastner J.H., Forveille T., Zuckerman B., Omont A.
    <Astron. Astrophys. 275, 163 (1993)>
    =1993A&A...275..163K
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, peculiar; CO; Radio lines
Keywords: surveys - stars: carbon - stars: AGB - stars: evolution -
          circumstellar matter - radio lines: stars

Description:
    A sample of distant (2-10kpc), heavily obscured asymptotic giant
    branch (AGB) stars were observed for CO emission. Simultaneous
    observations at the frequencies of the J=1-0 (115.27GHz) and J=2-1
    (230.58GHz) transitions of CO were made at the 30m IRAM telescope on
    Pico Velata, Spain, in September 1989.


File Summary:
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 FileName   Lrecl   Records    Explanations
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ReadMe         80         .    This file
table1.dat    101        61    Sources observed in CO
table2.dat     56        61    CO observations: results
table3.dat     74        45    Near-IR photometry of CO sources
table4.dat     38        20    Detections of SiO, H2O and HCN
table5.dat     71        49    Kinematic distances, bolometric fluxes,
                               luminosities
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1- 11  A11    ---     IRAS     IRAS name
  14- 15  I2     h       RAh      Right ascension (1950)
  17- 18  I2     min     RAm      Right ascension (1950)
  20- 23  F4.1   s       RAs      Right ascension (1950)
      27  A1     ---     DE-      Declination sign
  28- 29  I2     deg     DEd      Declination (1950)
  31- 32  I2     arcmin  DEm      Declination (1950)
  34- 35  I2     arcsec  DEs      Declination (1950)
  39- 41  I3     deg     GLON     Galactic longitude (lII)
  45- 48  F4.1   deg     GLAT     Galactic latitude (bII)
  51- 62  A12    Jy      Flux     IRAS fluxes: F12,F25,F60
  64- 65  A2     ---     LRS      IRAS LRS type (1)
  69- 70  I2     %       Var      IRAS variability index
  72-105  A34    ---     Name     Other object designations
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Note (1): Letter designations refer to classification in
     Volk et al., 1991ApJS...77..607V:
    I = noisy/incomplete,      F = featureless
    C = SiC emission,          E = silicate emission
    U = unusual
    See also the IRAS LRS (Cat. <III/197>)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label        Explanations
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   1- 11  A11    ---     IRAS         IRAS name
  14- 17  F4.2   K.km/s  TB.V(1-0)    ? CO(1-0) 115.27GHz line area
      19  A1     ---   l_TB.V(1-0)    ? CO(1-0) upper limit flag
  20- 23  F4     K       TB(1-0)      ? CO(1-0) peak antenna temperature TB
  26- 28  I3     km/s    V(LSR)(1-0)  ? CO(1-0) LSR velocity
  32- 33  I2     km/s    Vexp(1-0)    ? CO(1-0) expansion velocity
  37- 41  F5.2   K.km/s  TB.V(2-1)    ? CO(2-1) 230.54GHz line area
      42  A1     ---   l_TB.V(2-1)    ? CO(2-1) upper limit flag
  43- 46  F4     K       TB(2-1)      ? CO(2-1) peak antenna temperature TB
  49- 51  I3     km/s    V(LSR)(2-1)  ? CO(2-1) LSR velocity
  55- 56  I2     km/s    Vexp(2-1)    ? CO(2-1) expansion velocity
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1- 10  A10    ---     IRAS     IRAS name
  12- 18  F7.1   mJy     J        ? J(1.25 micron) flux, uncorrected
  20- 26  F7.1   mJy     H        ? H(1.65 micron) flux, uncorrected
  28- 34  F7.1   mJy     K        ? K(2.2 micron) flux, uncorrected
  36- 40  I5     mJy     L        ? L(3.5 micron) flux, uncorrected
  43- 49  F7.1   mJy     Jc       ? J(1.25 micron) flux, corrected
  51- 57  F7.1   mJy     Hc       ? H(1.65 micron) flux, corrected
  59- 66  F8.1   mJy     Kc       ? K(2.2 micron) flux, corrected
  67- 72  I6     mJy     Lc       ? L(3.5 micron) flux, corrected
      74  I1     ---   r_flux     ? Reference flag (1)
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Note (1): Photometry obtained at Kitt Peak 2.1-meter telescope
     except where noted:
  1 : S. G. Kleinmann, private communication
  2 : Epchtein et al., 1990A&A...227...82E
  3 : Epchtein et al., in preparation (data for 03301+5658 are of poor quality)
  4 : Guglielmo et al., 1993, A&AS (in press) 1993A&AS...99...31G
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label      Explanations
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   1- 11  A11    ---     IRAS       IRAS name
  14- 16  A3     ---     Molecule   Molecule name
  20- 24  F5.3   K       TB         Peak antenna temperature TB
  26- 30  F5.1   km/s    Vlsr       LSR velocity
  34- 38  F5.2   km/s    DeltaV     Line width (1)
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Note (1): the line width is:
      for SiO and H2O detection: full width at half maximum,
      for HCN: half width at zero power
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label     Explanations
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   1- 11  A11    ---     IRAS      IRAS name
  14- 15  A2     ---     Type      AGC type (C or O)
  17- 20  F4.1   kpc     Dkin      ? Near kinematic distance
  24- 29  E6.1   mW/m2   Fbol      ? Bolometric flux, uncorrected
  33- 37  E5.1   solLum  L         ? Luminosity, uncorrected
  41- 46  E6.1   mW/m2   Fbol,0    ? Bolometric flux, corrected
  50- 54  E5.1   solLum  L0        ? Luminosity, corrected
  58- 63  E6.1   mW/m2   Fbol,BC   ? Bolometric flux from (12-25) color
  67- 71  E5.1   solLum  LBC       ? Luminosity from (12-25) color
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History:
  * 14-Jul-2001: table1 corrected from a folded lines version. [CDS]
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(End)                                    Patricia Bauer [CDS]        21-Sep-1993

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