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J/A+AS/128/35       New Sample of OH/IR stars    (Sjouwerman+ 1998)
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A new sample of OH/IR stars in the Galactic center
     Sjouwerman L.O., Van Langevelde H.J., Winnberg A., Habing H.J.
    <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 128, 35 (1998)>
    =1998A&AS..128...35S      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, masers ; Infrared sources ; Spectroscopy
Keywords: masers - catalogs - surveys - stars: AGB and post-AGB -
          Galaxy: center - radio lines: stars

Description:
    Tables 2 and 3 present the positional and kinematic, and physical data
    for OH/IR stars found within 37 arcmin of the Galactic center (Sgr A*)
    respectively.

File Summary:
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  FileName   Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe          80        .   This file
table2         104      253   OH/IR stars in the Galactic center: positional and
                               kinematic data
table3          88      253   OH/IR stars in the Galactic center: physical data
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See also:
   J/A+AS/92/43  : Radio Obs. of OH/IR stars close to GCenter (Lindqvist+ 1992)
   J/ApJS/89/189 : IRAS PSC new OH/IR stars. III. (Chengalur+ 1993)

Table 1: 1612 MHz Survey image cubes
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 Code Set    Image cube center   Epoch Size Res Freq Freq rms Velocity range
             RA          DE              '   "  km/s kHz  mJy     km/s
 (1) (2)            (3)           (4)   (5) (6) (7)  (8)  (9)     (10)
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  a  VLA  17 42 12.6 -28 56 18.0 (B1950) 37 2.2 1.14  6.1 7.2  -93 -> +176
  b  VLA  17 42 29.3 -28 59 18.0 (B1950) 17 0.5 2.27 12.2 3.7  -92 -> +176
  c  ATCA 17 45 40.0 -29 00 28.0 (J2000) 37 2.2 1.45  7.8 4.5 -600 -> +700
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Notes: 1: Survey code
       2: Survey data set
       5: Survey Field size
       6: Pixel size
     7,8: Frequency resolution in km/s (7) and kHz (8)
       9: Noise level
      10: Velocity coverage
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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      A1    ---      Code      [abc] Image cube/data set code (see Table 1)
   4- 16  A13   ---      Name      OH name according to its Galactic coordinates
  19- 20  I2    h        RAh       Right ascension (J2000)
  22- 23  I2    min      RAm       Right ascension (J2000)
  25- 30  F6.3  s        RAs       Right ascension (J2000)
      32  A1    ---      DE-       Declination sign
  33- 34  I2    deg      DEd       Declination (J2000)
  36- 37  I2    arcmin   DEm       Declination (J2000)
  39- 43  F5.2  arcsec   DEs       Declination (J2000)
  46- 50  F5.3  arcsec e_Pos       Maximum error in RA or Dec
  53- 58  F6.1  km/s     Vblue     Velocity blue-shifted peak
  61- 66  F6.1  km/s     Vred      Velocity red-shifted peak
  69- 74  F6.1  km/s     Vstar     Stellar velocity (mean of OH peaks)
  77- 83  F7.3  arcmin   oGLON     Galactic longitude offset from Sgr A*
  86- 92  F7.3  arcmin   oGLAT     Galactic latitude offset from Sgr A*
  95- 104 A10   ---      Ref       References, see Note (1)
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Note (1):
  1  Lindqvist et al., 1992A&AS...92...43L (number) and references therein
  1a Lindqvist et al., 1992A&AS...92...43L, single peak (number)
  2  Baud et al., 1975Natur.258..406B
  3  Van Langevelde et al., 1992A&A...261L..17V
  4  Levine et al., 1995ApJ...447L.101L
  5  Yusef-Zadeh & Mehringer, 1995ApJ...452L..37Y
  6  I.S. Glass, pers. comm. (Glass et al. 1996)
  *  See remarks in main text
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3
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   Bytes Format Units    Label     Explanations
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   1      A1    ---      Code      Image cube/data set code (see Table 1)
   3- 15  A13   ---      Name      OH name according to its Galactic coordinates
  17- 20  F4.2  ---      PBF       Primary beam attenuation factor
  22- 27  F6.1  mJy      Sblue     Peak flux density blue-shifted peak
  29- 33  F5.2  Jy.km/s  Iblue     Integrated line flux blue-shifted peak
  35- 38  F4.1  %      e_Sblue     Relative error blue-shifted measurements
  40- 45  F6.1  mJy      Sred      Peak flux density red-shifted peak
  47- 51  F5.2  Jy.km/s  Ired      Integrated line flux red-shifted peak
  53- 56  F4.1  %      e_Sred      Relative error red-shifted measurements
  59- 63  F5.2  km/s     Vexp      Expansion velocity of OH shell
  65- 68  F4.1 [solLum]  log(L(OH)) OH luminosity (R_0_= 8 kpc)
  70- 73  F4.1  arcsec   Deconv1   Deconvolution major axis
  75- 78  F4.1  arcsec   Deconv2   Deconvolution minor axis
  80- 82  I3    deg      Deconv3   Deconvolution position angle
  84- 87  A4    ---      Note      Notes, see Note (1)
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Note (1): MC: Molecular cloud complex(es)
        LWHM: Peak velocity secondary in Table 2 from Lindqvist et al.,
              1992A&AS...92...43L
         VLA: Peak velocity secondary in Table 2 from our VLA data
        ATCA: Peak velocity secondary in Table 2 from our ATCA data
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Acknowledgements: Lorant Sjouwerman <sjouwerm@oso.chalmers.se>
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(End)          Lorant Sjouwerman [Onsala Space Observatory]          09-Jun-1997

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