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J/A+AS/87/1      RATAN-600 7.6 cm catalog of radio sources     (Parijskij+ 1991)
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The RATAN-600 7.6 cm catalog of radio sources from "Experiment Cold-80".
     Parijskij Yu.N., Bursov N.N., Lipovka N.M., Soboleva N.S., Temirova A.V.
    <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 87, 1 (1991)>
    =1991A&AS...87....1P
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ADC_Keywords: Radio sources
Keywords: catalog - radio sources - spectra of radio sources

Abstract:
   A catalog containing 840 radio sources obtained during the Experiment 
   Cold-80 at 7.6 cm wavelength using RATAN-600 are presented. The 
   completeness of the list in the central zone is about 0.7-0.8 for sources 
   with flux density 7.5-15 mJy. For sources brighter than 15 mJy the 
   completeness reaches one. The number of sources-flux density differential 
   curve is constructed. 

File Summary:
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
table1         106        884    The catalogue
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See also:
    VIII/33 : Spectral characteristics of RATAN Catalog
              (Bursov et al., =1989SoSAO..63...50B)
    J/A+AS/106/119 : Larionov et al., 1994, "A 3.9 GHz survey for
                     declination -1 to 0deg"
    J/other/BSAO/40.128 : RATAN-600 radio sources spectra (Bursov 1996)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1- 14  A14    ---     Name     Name of Source: RC, J2000-based position;
                                   "t" stands for "twin" objects
  15- 16  I2     h       RAh      right ascension (2000)
  18- 19  I2     min     RAm      right ascension (2000)
  21- 25  F5.2   s       RAs      right ascension (2000)
      26  A1     ---     DE-      declination sign
  27- 28  I2     deg     DEd      declination (2000)
  30- 31  I2     arcmin  DEm      declination (2000)
  33- 34  I2     arcsec  DEs      declination (2000)
  37- 38  I2     h       RA1950h  right ascension (1950)
  40- 41  I2     min     RA1950m  right ascension (1950)
  43- 47  F5.2   s       RA1950s  right ascension (1950)
  49- 53  F5.2   s       e_RAs    rms error on RA
      55  A1     ---     DE1950-  declination sign
  56- 57  I2     deg     DE1950d  declination (1950)
  59- 60  I2     arcmin  DE1950m  declination (1950)
  62- 63  I2     arcsec  DE1950s  declination (1950)
  65- 68  I4     arcsec  e_DEs    rms error on DE
      70  A1     ---     l_S7.6   Limit flag (>) on S7.6
  71- 74  I4     mJy     S7.6     Flux density at wavelength of 7.6cm (3.95GHz)
  76- 77  I2     %       e_S7.6   ? Flux density error in percent
  80- 83  I4     mJy     S31      ? Flux density at wavelength of 31cm (0.97GHz)
  85- 86  I2     %       e_S31    ? Flux density error in percent
  88- 93  F6.2   arcmin  Delta_h  The deviation in elevation (Delta h) of
                                  the source position from the electrical
                                  axis of radio telescope in arcmin.
  95- 99  A5     ---     Rem      [DVLAi?*, ] Remarks (1)
     101  A1     ---     l_SpInd  [C<] '<' for lower limit of SpInd,
                                  'C' for curved spectrum.
 102-106  F5.3   ---     SpInd    ? Spectral index. (S prop.to. nu**(-SpInd))
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Note (1): Sources marked with "D" were identified with objects of the
          365 MHz (delta= 5deg +/-2deg) survey made at the University of
          Texas Radio Astronomy Observatory.
     Sources marked by "i" were identified by us with catalogued optical
          objects (galaxies, quasars, clusters of galaxies).
     Sources marked by "VLA" were observed with the Very Large Array
     The position and/or flux density of sources marked with asterisks
          may have larger errors than those shown.
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Historical Notes:
  * The catalogue was received on diskette in January 1993 at CDS;
    it was documented by Joseph Florsch [CDS] in June 1993.
  * The documentation was standardized in December 1995
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(End)                                         Joseph Florsch [CDS]   14-Jun-1993

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