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J/A+AS/144/45       Hipparcos astrometry for 257 stars       (Fabricius+, 2000)
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Hipparcos astrometry for 257 stars using Tycho-2 data
     Fabricius C., Makarov V.V.
    <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 144, 45 (2000)>
    =2000A&AS..144...45F
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, double and multiple ; Parallaxes, trigonometric ;
              Proper motions
Keywords: astrometry - catalogs - stars: fundamental parameters -
          binaries: visual

Description:
    We present improved Hipparcos astrometry for 257 Hipparcos stars,
    resolved into 342 components. For 64 of the stars no astrometry
    was obtained in the Hipparcos Catalogue, while for the remaining stars
    additional components have been added by this solution or the
    positions have been revised considerably. We have used the published
    Hipparcos transit data for the new solutions, together with results
    from the second reduction of the Tycho data for defining better
    initial values.

File Summary:
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 FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe            80        .   This file
table3.dat       121      342   Revised Hipparcos astrometry
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See also:
    I/239 : The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues (ESA 1997)
    I/259 : The Tycho-2 Catalogue (Hog+ 2000)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  6  I6    ---     HIP       Hipparcos (Cat. <I/239>) number
       8  A1    ---   m_HIP       [ABCDE] Component identification
      10  I1    ---   n_HIP       [1,4] number of components in this system
  12- 17  F6.3  mag     Hpmag     Hp magnitude
  19- 30  F12.8 deg     RAdeg     Right Ascension, ICRS, Epoch 1991.25
  32- 43  F12.8 deg     DEdeg     Declination, ICRS, Epoch 1991.25
  45- 49  F5.1  mas     plx       ? Parallax
  51- 56  F6.1  mas/a   pmRA      ? Proper motion in RA*cos(DE)
  58- 63  F6.1  mas/a   pmDE      ? Proper motion in DE
  65- 69  F5.3  mag   e_Hpmag     rms uncertainty on Hp magnitude
  71- 74  F4.1  mas   e_RAdeg     rms uncertainty on right ascension
  76- 79  F4.1  mas   e_DEdeg     rms uncertainty on declination
  81- 84  F4.1  mas   e_plx       ? rms uncertainty on parallax
  86- 89  F4.1  mas/a e_pmRA      ? rms uncertainty on pmRA
  91- 94  F4.1  mas/a e_pmDE      ? rms uncertainty on pmDE
  96- 98  I3    ---     Nobs      ? Number of observations available
 100-101  I2    %       Rej       ? Percentage of observations rejected
     103  A1    ---     ref       [ABC]? reference component for PA, Sep
 105-110  F6.2  deg     PA        ? Position angle
 112-117  F6.3  arcsec  Sep       ? Separation
     119  A1    ---     flag1     [lnx] See Note (1)
     121  A1    ---     flag2     [RU]  See Note (2)
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Note (1):
    l: results for this component is in strong disagreement with Hipparcos;
    n: this component has no astrometry in the Hipparcos Catalogue;
    x: this component is not in the Hipparcos Catalogue.
Note (2):
    R: there is a remark in the printed paper, Section 5;
    U: the solution is slightly uncertain.
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Acknowledgements: Claus Fabricius <cf@astro.ku.dk>

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(End)                                        Patricia Bauer [CDS]    04-May-2000

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