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J/A+AS/112/291      VRI photometry of wide double stars  (Sinachopoulos+ 1995)
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VRI photometry of wide double stars with A- type primaries.
     Sinachopoulos D., Cuypers J., Lampens P., Oblak E., van Dessel E.L.
    <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 112, 291 (1995)>
    =1995A&AS..112..291S        (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, double and multiple ; Photometry, VRI ; HR diagrams
Keywords: stars: binaries: visual-photometry: Hipparcos

Description:
    We are presenting VRI photometry of 93 wide visual double stars having
    late B- or A- type primaries, taken from the Annex of Double and
    Multiple Stars of the HIPPARCOS Input Catalogue. Spectral types have
    been estimated for most of the primaries and for the majority of the
    secondaries. 40% of them probably have common origin components, for
    which we calculated photometric parallaxes and some orbital values
    estimates.

File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
table1             72      188   VRI photometry of A-type double stars
table2             18       28   Relation between Spectral type and (V-I)_0_
                                  index
table3             28       34   Computed versus literature spectral types of
                                  34 primaries
table4             86       93   Astrophysical parameters
tables.tex        116      599   LaTeX version of the tables
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See also:
       I/107 : WDS (Washington Double Star)
       I/196 : HIC (Hipparcos Input Catalogue)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   2- 11  A10   ---     IDS       IDS (Eq. 1900) code of the double star as
                                   listed in WDS (Worley and Douglass, 1984)
  13- 21  A9    ---     HIC       Hipparcos Input Catalogue or
                                   Durchmusterung number
      25  A1    ---   m_IDS       Multiplicity index on star name
  31- 36  F6.3  mag     Vmag      V magnitude
  38- 41  F4.3  mag   e_Vmag      rms uncertainty on V magnitude
  43- 48  F6.3  mag     V-R       V-R color index
  50- 53  F4.3  mag   e_V-R       rms uncertainty on V-R
  56- 61  F6.3  mag     V-I       V-I color index
  63- 66  F4.3  mag   e_V-I       rms uncertainty on V-I
      71  I1    ---   o_Vmag      Number of measurements
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   2-  4  A3    ---     Sp        Spectral type
   6- 11  F6.3  mag     V-Imin    Minimun V-I color index
  13- 18  F6.3  mag     V-Imax    ? Maximun V-I color index
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   2- 11  A10   ---     IDS       IDS (Eq. 1900) name
  13- 15  A3    ---     SpCal     Calculated spectral type
  17- 28  A12   ---     SpLit     Literature spectral type
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4
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   Bytes Format Units     Label     Explanations
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   2- 11  A10   ---       IDS       IDS (Eq. 1900) name
  13- 24  A12   ---       ASp       A component spectral type
  26- 30  A5    ---       BSp       B component spectral type
  32- 36  F5.1  arcsec    rho       Angular separation
  38- 40  I3    pc        Dist      ? Minimum value of the distance
  45- 47  I3    pc      e_Dist      ? rms uncertainty on Dist
  49- 52  F4.1  10+3AU    Tan.Sep   ? Tangential separation component
  59- 61  F3.1  10+3AU  e_Tan.Sep   ? rms uncertainty on tangential separation
  63- 66  I4    10+3yr    P         ? Minimum of the orbital period
  71- 73  I3    10+3yr  e_P         ? rms uncertainty on P
  75- 78  F4.2  km/s      Vorb      ? Maximum of orbital velocity
  83- 86  F4.2  km/s    e_Vorb      ? rms uncertainty on Vorb
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Courtesy: Dimitris Sinachopoulos   <Dimitris.Sinachopoulos@oma.be>

Referecences:
   Worley and Douglass, 1984,  =Catalogue <I/107> (WDS)
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(End)                                         Patricia Bauer  [CDS]  09-Feb-1996

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