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J/A+AS/133/299      Long-term spectroscopy of eta Carinae (Damineli+ 1998)
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Long-term spectroscopy of eta Carinae. I. The high and low excitation phases
       Damineli A., Stahl O., Kaufer A., Wolf B., Quast G., Lopes D.F.
      <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 133, 299 (1998)>
      =1998A&AS..133..299D      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, Be ; Spectroscopy ; Radial velocities
Keywords: stars: emission-line, Be - Stars: Hertzprung-Russel (HR) diagram -
          stars: individual: eta Carinae - binaries: general

Description:
    This Table contains parameters of 655 spectral features in the
    spectrum of eta Carinae, in the wavelength region 3850-11000
    Angstrom. The narrow and broad line components were measured
    separately, for the spectrum in high excitation state (year 1995) and
    during the "spectroscopic event" of June/1992. The spectra were
    collected at ESO (Chile) and LNA (Brazil) at high resolution. Several
    spectral lines of Fe II, [Fe II], [Fe III], [N II] ands Ca II are
    identifyed for the first time in the spectrum of this star. Line
    variability between high and low excitation states is characterized in
    an objective way (parameter var in the last column).

Objects:
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       RA   (2000)   DE      Designation(s)
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    10 45 03.6   -59 41 03   eta Car = HD 93308
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File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
table1.dat     127        651    List of measurements
table1.ps       72       2758    PostScript version of table1
table1.tex     116       2046    LaTeX version of table1
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  6  A6    ---     Name      Reference name for the feature
   8- 21  A14   ---     Ident     Identification of the atomic transition
  23- 28  A6    ---     Com       Commentary on the appearance of the feature
  32- 40  F9.3  0.1nm   LambdaLab ? Laboratory wavelength of the atomic
                                     transition
      41  A1    ---   n_LambdaLab Note on LambdaLab (1)
  43- 50  F8.2  0.1nm   LamObs1   ? Observed wavelength of the feature (1995)
  51- 52  A2    ---   n_LamObs1   [ND ] ND when not detected
  53- 57  I5    km/s    HRV1      ? Heliocentric radial velocity (1995)
      58  A1    ---   u_HRV1      Uncertainty flag on HRV1
  60- 65  F6.2  ---     I/Ic1     ? Relative intensity of line peak to the
                                     continuum (1995)
  66- 67  A2    ---   n_I/Ic1     [ND ] ND when not detected
  68- 74  F7.2  ---     Flux1     ? Line flux relative to the local continuum
                                    (1995) - (2)
  76- 79  I4    km/s    fwhm1     ? Full width at half maximum (1995)
  81- 88  F8.2  0.1nm   LamObs2   ? Observed wavelength of the feature
                                     (June/1992)
  89- 90  A2    ---   n_LamObs2   [ND :?] ND when not detected
  93- 97  I5    km/s    HRV2      ? Heliocentric radial velocity (June/1992)
 101-105  F5.2  ---     I/Ic2     ? Relative intensity of line peak to continuum
                                     (June/1992)
 109-114  F6.2  ---     Flux2     ? Line flux relative to the local continuum
                                     (June/1992) - (2)
 118-121  I4    km/s    fwhm2     ? Full width at half maximum (June/1992)
 123-127  I5    ---     var       ? Line variability from high to low states (3)
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Note (1): ]: For lines that have no identification, the observed wavelength
              was corrected by the radial velocity of the object (-40 km/s) in
              order to indicate the expected laboratory wavelength.
Note (2): This is equal to the equivalent width in Angstrom for lines seated on
           the stellar continuum.
Note (3): Defined in equation (1) - see text
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Acknowledgements: Andreas Kaufer <A.Kaufer@lsw.uni-heidelberg.de>
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(End)          A. Damineli [IAG-USP], A. Kaufer [Landessternwarte]   22-Jun-1998

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