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J/A+AS/93/121    CO emission from a sample of IRAS sources         (Nyman+ 1992)
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A survey of circumstellar CO emission from a sample of IRAS sources
     Nyman L.A., Booth R.S., Carlstroem U., Habing H.J., Heske A., Sahai R.,
     Stark R., van der Veen W.E.C.J., Winnberg A.
    <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 93, 121 (1992)>
    =1992A&AS...93..121N
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ADC_Keywords: Infrared sources; CO; Stars, late-type; Mass loss
Keywords: stars: circumstellar matter - stars: mass loss - radio lines:
        molecular (CO) - infrared radiation

Abstract:
    The first results from a survey of circumstellar CO(1-0) emission are
    presented. The sources were selected from the IRAS point source catalog
    according to the IRAS color criteria described in van der Veen and Habing
    (1988). The sources have good quality fluxes at 12, 25, and 60 microns,
    flux densities larger than 20 Jy at 25 microns, and are situated more than
    5 deg away from the Galactic plane. The survey is undertaken to study the
    relationship between mass loss rates, dust properties, and the evolution
    along the AGB. The sample consists of 787 sources and contains both oxygen
    and carbon-rich stars, including Mira variables, OH/IR objects,
    protoplanetary nebulae, planetary nebulae, and 60-micron excess sources.
    So far, 519 objects, situated on both the northern and the southern sky,
    have been observed; 163 sources were found to have circumstellar CO
    emission, and in 58 of these CO emission has not previously been detected.

File Summary:
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 FileName        Lrecl       Records    Explanations
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ReadMe              80             .    This file
table4              90           519    Detected and undetected sources
table6              69           103    Objects with cold envelopes
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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       1  A1     ---     T        Table indicator a,b,c
   2- 11  A10    ---     IRAS     IRAS Source Name
  13- 16  A4     ---     Region   in the IRAS two color diagram as defined by
                                   van der Veen & Habing, 1988 , A&A 194, 125.
  18- 23  F6.0   Jy      F12      IRAS 12 micrometer flux density
  25- 30  F6.0   Jy      F25      IRAS 25 micrometer flux density
  32- 37  F6.0   Jy      F60      IRAS 60 micrometer flux density
  39- 43  F5.3   K       rms      ? Rms noise the CO spectrum, given in K (Tmb).
  45- 49  F5.2   K       Tmb      ? Main beam brightness peak intensity of the
                                   detected line
  51- 56  F6.1   km/s    V0       ? Center velocity of the CO line (in km/s).
      57  A1     ---     n_V0     Remark on V0 (1)
  59- 62  F4.1   km/s    Vexp     ? Expansion velocity. This is half of the
                                   full line width at zero intensity.
  64- 68  F5.1   km/s    Ico      ? CO intensity integrated over the whole line
                                   (in K km/s, Tmb scale).
  70- 71  I2     ---     Ref      ? Reference to a previous CO detection of
                                   the source. (2)
  73- 90  A18    ---     Ident    Source name (if different from the IRAS name).
                                   An asterisk after the name indicates that
                                   there is an interstellar line included in
                                   the CO spectrum.
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Note (1):
   a. The centre velocity is uncertain up to +/-10 kms^-1 (see text).
   b. Previous CO detections. For sources previously detected in CO (1--0)
      emission and not detected by us, the CO (1--0) line was usually too weak
      to be seen with our sensitivity limit, and in a few cases it may
      only have been a tentative detection. Sources detected in the
      CO (2--1) line are also listed as previous detections.
      The CO (2--1) line can be brighter than the (1--0) line
      because of optical depth and beam filling effects, and the
      (1--0) line may be too weak to be detected.
Note (2): 
    References:
    1. Knapp & Morris (1985),
    2. Zuckerman et al. (1986),
    3. Zuckerman & Dyck (1986a),
    4. Zuckerman & Dyck (1986b),
    5. Zuckerman & Dyck (1989),
    6. Olofsson et al. (1987),
    7. Olofsson et al. (1988),
    8. Sopka et al. (1989),
    9. Lindqvist et al. (1988),
   10. Wannier & Sahai (1986),
   11. Nguyen--Q--Rieu et al. (1987),
   12. Knapp et al. (1982),
   13. Likkel et al. (1987),
   14. Knapp et al. (1989),
   15. Deguchi et al. (1990),
   16. Loup et al. (1990),
   17. Heske et al. (1990),
   18. Huggins & Healy (1989),
   19. Woodsworth et al. (1990),
   20. Margulis et al. (1990),
   21. Knapp (1986),
   22. Leahy et al. (1987),
   23. Arquilla et al. (1986)
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Table 5: CO parameters as function of IRAS regions
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    Region  v_exp   Dv_exp  K_60    +/-     A_60    +/-     r_60    n
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    II      11.4    5.4     0.64    0.19    -0.48   0.28    0.63    19
    IIIa    14.5    4.0     0.87    0.06    -0.76   0.09    0.88    67
    IIIb    17.2    3.7     0.68    0.20    -0.51   0.30    0.79    9
    IV      18.9
    V       12.7    2.0
    VIa     16.1    8.9     1.03    0.18    -0.67   0.21    0.92    8
    VIb     17.7
    VII     16.6    6.6     0.91    0.07    -0.50   0.10    0.87    50
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    r_60 is the correlation coefficient to the fit
    log(I_CO)=K_60.log(F_60)+A_60
    and n is the number of sources included in the fit.


Byte-by-byte Description of file: table6
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1- 10  A10    ---     IRAS     IRAS Source Name
  12- 15  A4     ---     Region   in the IRAS two color diagram as defined by
                                   van der Veen & Habing, 1988 , A&A 194, 125.
  17- 18  A2     ---     Det      Detection, as:
                                   D = Detected by us
                                   ? = Tentative detection
                                   N = Non--detection
                                   * = Interstellar line in the CO spectrum.
  20- 21  I2     ---     r_Det    ? Reference to previous detection (1)
  23- 58  A36    ---     Ident    Identification
  61- 65  A5     ---     Sp-type  Spectral type
  67- 70  A4     ---     r_Id     Reference to Identification (1)
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Note (1):  
    References:
    1. Zijlstra et al. (1989)
    2. Volk & Kwok (1989)
    3. Kwok et al. (1989)
    4. te Lintel Hekkert et al. (1988)
    5. Hrivnak et al. (1988)
    6. Cernicharo et al. (1989)
    7. Cohen & Schwarz (1984)
    8. Beichman et al. (1986)
    9. Gaylard et al. (1989)
   10. te Lintel Hekkert et al. (1989)
   11. Menzies & Wolstencroft (1990)
   12. Hu et al. (1989)
   13. Hu et al. (1990)
   14. Rao et al. (1990)
   15. Lambert et al. (1986)
   16. Heske et al. (1990)
   17. Olofsson et al. (1987)
   18. Woodsworth et al. (1990)
   19. Sopka et al. (1989)
   20. Knapp & Morris (1985)
   21. Loup et al. (1990)
   22. Zuckerman et al. (1986)
   23. Olofsson et al. (1988)
   24. Knapp et al. (1989)
   25. Zuckerman & Dyck (1986b)
   26. Huggins & Healy (1989)
   27. Likkel et al. (1987)
   28. Zuckerman & Dyck (1986a)
   29. Arquilla et al. (1986)
   30. Pesce et al. (1988).
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(End)                                           [CDS]                19-Mar-1993

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