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J/A+AS/115/11       Optical identifications of radio sources  (Stickel+, 1996)
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Optical identifications of radio sources from the 1 Jy, S4 and S5 catalogues
     Stickel M., Kuehr H.
    <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 115, 11 (1996)>
    =1996A&AS..115...11S      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Radio sources ; Active gal. nuclei ; QSOs ; Redshifts
Keywords: catalogs - surveys - galaxies: active - quasars: general -
          radio continuum: general

Description:
    CCD images of the fields of 115 radio sources from the 1Jy, S4 and S5
    catalogues are presented. New optical counterparts have been found for
    a total of 34 sources, a large fraction of which had as yet only been
    described as empty fields on Sky Survey Plates. Of the 54 radio
    sources with previously published identifications, 50 optical
    counterparts have been confirmed while for 4 sources new
    identifications are proposed. R band magnitudes, derived from the CCD
    images, are provided for all but a few identified optical
    counterparts. The fields at the positions of 27 radio sources are
    still empty down to a limiting magnitude of at least m_R_=22mag,
    requiring much deeper optical as well as additional infrared images
    for establishing their optical counterparts.

See also:
    Catalogue III/175 (gathers papers I-V)
    J/A+AS/80/103     (I)
    J/A+AS/97/483     (II)
    J/A+AS/98/393     (II-Observational data)
    J/A+AS/100/395    (III)
    J/A+AS/101/521    (IV)
    J/A+AS/103/349    (Update of optical identifications)
    J/A+AS/105/67     (Optical identifications from 1Jy, S4, S5)
    J/A+AS/105/211    (Optical identification of 1Jy)


File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
table1             68       27   Observed 1 Jy Radio Sources
table2             68       21   Observed S4 Radio Sources
table3             68       67   Observed S5 Radio Sources
table4             42       27   Journal of 1 Jy Observations
table5             42       21   Journal of S4 Observations
table6             42       67   Journal of S5 Observations
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1 table2 table3
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   2-  9  A8     ---     Name     Source name
  11- 12  I2     h       RAh      Right ascension of the radio source (1950)
  14- 15  I2     min     RAm      Right ascension of the radio source (1950)
  17- 21  F5.2   s       RAs      Right ascension of the radio source (1950)
      23  A1     ---     DE-      Declination sign
  24- 25  I2     deg     DEd      Declination of the radio source (1950)
  27- 28  I2     arcmin  DEm      Declination of the radio source (1950)
  30- 33  F4.1   arcsec  DEs      Declination of the radio source (1950)
  35- 37  A3     ---     RefPos   Reference to the radio position (1)
  39- 42  F4.1   mag     Bright   ? Brightness of the optical counterpart
  44- 49  A6     ---     SouType  Source type
  51- 56  F6.4   ---     z        ? Redshift
  58- 62  F5.3   Jy      S5GHz    Radio flux density S_5GHz_
  64- 68  F5.2   ---     SpIndex  Radio spectral index between 11 cm and 6 cm
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Note (1): AC  White (1992)
          BV  Vigotti et al. (1989)
          D   Pearson and Readhead (1988)
          EK  Ekers et al. (1989)
          FY1 Fey et al. (1992)
          FY2 Fey et al. (1994)
          J   Kuehr et al. (1981)
          K   Kapahi (1981)
          M1  Morabito et al. (1982)
          M2  Morabito et al. (1983)
          M3  Morabito et al. (1985)
          M4  Morabito et al. (1986)
          MK  Morganti et al. (1993)
          P   Perley (1982)
          PA  Patnaik et al. (1992)
          RO  Robertson et al. (1993)
          RU2 Russell et al. (1994)
          S4  Pauliny-Toth et al. (1978)
          S5  Kuehr et al. (1987)
          U   Ulvestad et al. (1981)
          VLA VLA Calibrator position
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4 table5 table6
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   Bytes Format  Units     Label    Explanations
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   2-  9  A8     ---        Name      Source name
  11- 23  A13    ---        Date      Date of observation
  25- 28  A4     ---        Telescope Telescope used for the observation
  30- 33  I4     s          Time      Total integration time
  35- 37  F3.1   arcsec     Seeing    Estimate of the seeing during the
                                      observation
  39- 42  F4.2   arcsec/pix Scale     Scale of the CCD image
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References:
   Ekers R.D. et al. 1989, MNRAS 236, 737		=1989MNRAS.236..737E
   Fey A.L. et al. 1992, AJ 104, 891			=1992AJ....104..891F
   Fey A.L. et al. 1994, AJ 107, 385			=1994AJ....107..385F
   Kapahi V.K. 1981, A&AS 43, 381			=1981A&AS...43..381K
   Kuehr H. et al. 1981, A&AS 45, 367			=1981A&AS...45..367K
   Kuehr H. et al. 1987, A&AS 71, 493			=1987A&AS...71..493K
   Morabito D.D. et al. 1982, AJ 87, 517		=1982AJ.....87..517M
   Morabito D.D. et al. 1983, AJ 88, 1138		=1982AJ.....87..517M
   Morabito D.D. et al. 1985, AJ 90, 590		=1985AJ.....90..590M
   Morabito D.D. et al. 1986, AJ 92, 546		=1986AJ.....92..546M
   Morganti D.D. et al. 1993, MNRAS 263, 1023		=1993MNRAS.263.1023M
   Patnaik A.R. et al. 1992, MNRAS 254, 655		=1992MNRAS.254..655P
   Pauliny-Toth I.I.K. et al. 1978, AJ 83, 451		=1978AJ.....83..451P
   Pearson T.J. and Readhead A.C.S. 1988, ApJ 328, 114	=1988ApJ...328..114P
   Perley R.A. 1982, AJ 87, 859				=1982AJ.....87..859P
   Robertson D.S. et al. 1993, AJ 105, 353		=1993AJ....105..353R
   Russell J.L. et al. 1994, AJ 107, 379		=1994AJ....107..379R
   Ulvestad J. et al. 1981, AJ 86, 1010			=1981AJ.....86.1010U
   Vigotti M. et al. 1989, AJ 98, 419			=1989AJ.....98..419V
   White G.L. 1992, Proc. Astron. Soc. Australia 10,140	=1992PASAu..10..140W
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(End)                                       Simona Mei [CDS]   06-Sep-1995

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