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J/A+AS/122/463      Carbon stars in Magellanic Clouds    (Kunkel+ 1997)
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Carbon stars in the halo of the Magellanic Clouds:
Identification and radial velocity data.
    Kunkel W.E., Irwin M.J., Demers S.
   <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 122, 463 (1997)>
   =1997A&AS..122..463K      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Magellanic Clouds ; Stars, carbon ; Radial velocities
Keywords: galaxies:  Magellanic Clouds - stars: carbon -
          technique: radial velocities

Description:
    The 16 tables list the heliocentric and galactocentric radial
    velocities of several hundred carbon stars in the halo of the LMC and
    SMC. Most of them are newly discovered stars.

File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
tab2-14            97      403   Magellanic Cloud periphery carbon stars
table15            84       38   Inter Cloud carbon stars
tab16-18           82       98   Magellanic Cloud periphery carbon stars
tables.tex        205     1459   LaTeX version of the tables
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: tab2-14
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   2-  3  I2    ---     Table     Number of the table in the paper
   5- 14  A10   ---     Name      Name of star
  16- 22  A7    ---     Id        Identification from field
  24- 25  I2    h       RAh       Right ascension 1950
  27- 28  I2    min     RAm       Right ascension 1950
  30- 33  F4.1  s       RAs       Right ascension 1950
      35  A1    ---     DE-       Declination sign
  36- 37  I2    deg     DEd       Declination 1950
  39- 40  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination 1950
  42- 43  I2    arcsec  DEs       Declination 1950
  45- 49  F5.1  deg     GLON      Galactic longitude
  51- 55  F5.1  deg     GLAT      Galactic latitude
  57- 61  F5.1  km/s    HRV       Heliocentric radial velocity
  63- 67  F5.1  km/s    gRV       ? Galactocentric radial velocity
      69  I1    ---   q_HRV       Quality parameter
  71- 72  I2    ---     Spect     Number of spectra
  74- 77  F4.1  mag     Rmag      R magnitude
  79- 82  F4.2  mag     B-R       B-R colour index
  84- 98  A15   ---     Com       Comments
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table15 tab16-18
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   2-  3  I2    ---     Table     Number of the table on the paper
   5- 13  A9    ---     Name      Name of star
      14  A1    ---   n_Name      [*] Note on Name (1)
      15  I1    h       RAh       Right ascension 1950
  17- 18  I2    min     RAm       Right ascension 1950
  20- 23  F4.1  s       RAs       Right ascension 1950
      25  A1    ---     DE-       Declination sign
  26- 27  I2    deg     DEd       Declination 1950
  29- 30  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination 1950
  32- 33  I2    arcsec  DEs       Declination 1950
  35- 39  F5.1  deg     GLAT      [274.0/305.7] Galactic longitude
  41- 45  F5.1  deg     GLON      [-48.3/-27.0] Galactic latitude
  47- 51  F5.1  km/s    HRV       Heliocentric radial velocity
  53- 57  F5.1  km/s    gRV       Galactocentric radial velocity
      59  I1    ---   q_HRV       Quality parameter
  61- 62  I2    ---     N         Number of spectra
  64- 68  F5.2  mag     Vmag      ? V magnitude
  70- 73  F4.2  mag     B-V       ? B-V colour index
  75- 84  A10   ---     Com       Comments
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Note (1): * Stars observed by Hardy et al. (1989ApJ...344..210H), I magnitude
             is given.
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Acknowledgements: Serge Demers <demers@ASTRO.UMontreal.CA>
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(End)                                        Patricia Bauer  [CDS]   30-Jul-1996

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