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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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