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J/A+AS/120/89       408MHz observations (Bondi+ 1996)
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A 15 years monitoring program at 408 MHz
       Bondi M., Padrielli L., Fanti R., Ficarra A., Gregorini L., Mantovani F.
      <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 120, 89 (1996)>
      =1996A&AS..120...89B      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, radio
Keywords: galaxies: active - quasars: general - radio continuum: galaxies

Description:
    This is the second paper based on the 408MHz monitoring program with
    the East-West arm of the Bologna interferometer. The monitoring
    concerned 125 radio sources measured approximately once a month for 15
    years. We present the summary of the variability analysis concerning
    all the sample and the monitoring data, not yet published, of the
    variable sources.

File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
table1             32       28   Calibrator sources
table2             62      125   Summary of monitored sources
tables             71     3979   408 MHz monitoring data of the variable and
                                  probable sources (table3 to table63)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  8  A8    ---     IAU       IAU name
  10- 17  A8    ---     Name      Other name when available
  19- 24  F6.2  Jy      <F>       Average flux density at 408 MHz
  26- 29  F4.2  Jy    e_<F>       rms scatter of the flux density
  31- 32  I2    ---   o_<F>       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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   1-  8  A8    ---      IAU       IAU Name
  10- 17  A8    ---      Name      Other name when available
  19- 20  A2    ---      Opt       [BLQG ] Optical identification
  22- 26  F5.3  ---      z         ? Redshift
  28- 32  F5.2  Jy       <F>       Average flux density at 408MHz
  34- 37  F4.2  Jy     e_<F>       ? Scatter of variability deconvolved from
                                      experimental errors (only for variable
                                      and probably variable sources)
  39- 43  F5.2  ---    2_<F>       Normalized chi-squared
  45- 46  I2    ---    o_<F>       Number of observations
  48- 53  F6.1  yr       Epoch1    First epoch of observation
  55- 60  F6.1  yr       Epoch2    Last epoch of observation
      62  A1    ---      Var       [PV] Code of variability
                                        (P = probably variable; V = variable)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: tables
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  8  A8    ---     IAU       IAU Name
  11- 18  A8    ---     Name      Other Name if available
  21- 30  A10   ---     ObsDate   Epoch of observation (dd mm yyyy)
      35  I1    ---   o_F         Number of observations
  40- 44  F5.2  Jy      F         Flux density at 408MHz
  48- 51  F4.2  Jy    e_F         Error on the flux density
  55- 60  F6.2  %       Scint     Percentage of scintillation
      65  A1    ---     Note      [-] When -, the measurement is too affected
                                   by scintillation and not used in the
                                   statistical analysis
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(End)                                         Patricia Bauer [CDS]   29-May-1996

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