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J/A+AS/121/119   Optical monitoring of gamma-ray loud blazars. I (Villata+ 1997)
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Optical photometric monitoring of gamma-ray loud blazars. I. 
Observations from November 1994 to November 1995.
     Villata M., Raiteri C.M., Ghisellini G., De Francesco G., Bosio S.,
     Latini G., Bucciarelli B., Chiaberge M., Chiumiento G., Cora A.,
     Lanteri L., Lattanzi M.G., Massone G., Peila A., Racioppi F., Smart R.L.,
     Scaltriti F., Anderlucci E.
    <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 121, 119 (1997)>
    =1997A&AS..121..119V      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: QSOs ; Magnitudes
Keywords: quasars: general - gamma ray: theory

Description:
    The results of the optical monitoring between November 1994 and
    November 1995 of twenty gamma-ray loud blazars included in the
    Torino blazar monitoring program are presented.

File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records  Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .  This file
table4             31       34  Photometric sequences for some of the monitored
                                 blazars
table5             41       13  Sparse observations in the V band
tab6-42            66      711 *BVR observations
tab43-47          178       40  UBVRI photopolarimetric observations of 2254+074
tables.tex         80     1354  TeX version of the tables
fig9.ps            72     7709  Finding chart of OJ 248
fig11.ps           72     7709  Finding chart of 4C 71.07
fig13.ps           72     7709  Finding chart of 3C 216
fig20.ps           72     7709  Finding chart of PKS 1229-021
fig23.ps           72     7709  Finding chart of 3C 279
fig26.ps           72     7709  Finding chart of PKS 1510-089
fig27.ps           72     7709  Finding chart of DA 406
fig33.ps           72     7709  Finding chart of 4C 38.41
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Note on tab6-42: tab6-42 corresponds to tables 6 to 42 and table 48 of the paper

See also:
   J/ApJ/522/846  : Optical monitoring of GeV loud blazars    (Xie+, 1999)
   J/A+AS/127/445 : Gamma-ray loud blazars optical monitoring. II. 
                    (Raiteri+ 1998)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  8  A8    ---     Name      Blazar designation
  12- 13  A2    ---     Star      Star designation
  15- 19  F5.2  mag     Rmag      R magnitude
  21- 25  F5.2  mag     Vmag      ? V magnitude
  27- 31  F5.2  mag     Bmag      B magnitude
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5
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   Bytes Format     Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  8  A8        ---     Name      Blazar designation
  10- 17  A8     "DD/MM/YY" Date      Observation date
  19- 30  F12.4     d       HJD       Heliocentric Julian date
  32- 36  F5.2      mag     Vmag      V magnitude
  38- 41  F4.2      mag   e_Vmag      rms uncertainty on Vmag
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: tab6-42
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   Bytes Format Units   Label   Explanations
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   1-  8  A8    ---     Name    Blazar designation
  10- 17  A8 "DD/MM/YY" Date    Observation date
  19- 30  F12.4 d       HJD     Heliocentric Julian date
      32  A1    ---   n_Bmag    [D] D indicates that Bmag contains B-Bmin value
  33- 37  F5.2  mag     Bmag    ? B magnitude
  39- 42  F4.2  mag   e_Bmag    ? rms uncertainty on B magnitude
      44  A1    ---   n_Vmag    [D] D indicates that Vmag contains V-Vmin value
  45- 49  F5.2  mag     Vmag    ? V magnitude
  51- 54  F4.2  mag   e_Vmag    ? rms uncertainty on V magnitude
      56  A1    ---   n_Rmag    [D] D indicates that Rmag contains R-Rmin value
  57- 61  F5.2  mag     Rmag    ? R magnitude
  63- 66  F4.2  mag   e_Rmag    ? rms uncertainty on R magnitude
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: tab43-47
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   Bytes Format     Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  8  A8        ---     Source    Source name
  10- 17  A8     "DD/MM/YY" Date      Observation date
  19- 30  F12.4     d       HJD       Heliocentric Julian date
  32- 36  F5.2      mag     Umag      ? U magnitude
  38- 41  F4.2      mag   e_Umag      ? rms uncertainty on Umag
  43- 46  F4.1      %       PUmag     ? Polarisation in U band
  48- 50  F3.1      %     e_PUmag     ? rms uncertainty on PU
  52- 56  F5.1      deg     PAUmag    ? Position angle in U band
  58- 61  F4.1      deg   e_PAUmag    ? rms uncertainty on PAUmag
  63- 67  F5.2      mag     Bmag      ? B magnitude
  69- 72  F4.2      mag   e_Bmag      ? rms uncertainty on Bmag
  74- 77  F4.1      %       PBmag     ? Polarisation in B band
  79- 81  F3.1      %     e_PBmag     ? rms uncertainty on PBmag
  83- 86  F4.1      deg     PABmag    ? Position angle in B band
  88- 91  F4.1      deg   e_PABmag    ? rms uncertainty on PABmag
  93- 97  F5.2      mag     Vmag      ? V magnitude
  99-102  F4.2      mag   e_Vmag      ? rms uncertainty on Vmag
 104-107  F4.1      %       PVmag     ? Polarisation in V band
 109-111  F3.1      %     e_PVmag     ? rms uncertainty on PVmag
 113-116  F4.1      deg     PAVmag    ? Position angle in V band
 118-120  F3.1      deg   e_PAVmag    ? rms uncertainty on PAVmag
 122-126  F5.2      mag     Rmag      ? R magnitude
 128-131  F4.2      mag   e_Rmag      ? rms uncertainty on Rmag
 133-136  F4.1      %       PRmag     ? Polarisation in R band
 138-140  F3.1      %     e_PRmag     ? rms uncertainty on PRmag
 142-145  F4.1      deg     PARmag    ? Position angle in R band
 147-149  F3.1      deg   e_PARmag    ? rms uncertainty on PARmag
 151-155  F5.2      mag     Imag      ? I magnitude
 157-160  F4.2      mag   e_Imag      ? rms uncertainty on Imag
 162-164  F3.1      %       PImag     ? Polarisation in I band
 166-168  F3.1      %     e_PImag     ? rms uncertainty on PImag
 170-173  F4.1      deg     PAImag    ? Position angle in I band
 175-178  F4.1      deg   e_PAImag    ? rms uncertainty on PAImag
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Acknowledgements: M. Villata <villata@otoax3.to.astro.it>
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(End)                                         Patricia Bauer [CDS]   03-Jun-1996

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